Also known as Shenck Farm
Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• 'Greensand No. 4'
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. Cook; reposited in the AMNH
• originally in the Rutgers University collection.
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1865. Cretaceous reptiles of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 192:1-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129265: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Teihivenator macropus n. sp.3
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Trionyx priscus n. sp.2
Trionyx priscus n. sp.2 Cope 1869 turtle AMNH 2401, about a dozen fragments of carapace, 2–3 of plastron, the distal end of the L humerus, and a posterior dorsal vertebral centrum; outer portion of a costal plate, apparently the 6th of the L side; acetabular portion of the pelvis; and the upper end of the R femur
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