Where: Camden County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 52.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Hornerstown Formation), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• upper part of formation
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, glauconitic, gray, green sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124963: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.03.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
Hyposaurus rogersii n. gen. n. sp.
Hyposaurus rogersii n. gen. n. sp. Owen 1849 crocodilian | |
? Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Gnathostomata | |
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Oleneothyris harlani Morton 1829 | |
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Etea delwarensis clam | |
Calcarea | |
Peronidella dichotoma Laube 1865 calcareous sponge |