Highlands Cliffs (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Navesink Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• No stratigraphic detail given for many of the localities, but map location suggests that it probably comes from the Navesink Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.R. Case

• Repository: University of Montpellier II

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 151:1-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213756: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray