Also known as South Amboy Fire Clay; Sayreville

Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 41.2° N, 31.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: South Amboy Fire Clay Member (Raritan/Lower Magothy Formation), Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Zhou et al. (2001) states in the "Materials and Methods" section that the fossil materials (Microaltingia apocarpela) described was collected from the South Amboy Fire Clay (Raritan Formation).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, silty claystone

Size class: mesofossils

• Fossil flowers, dispersed stamens, fruits, seeds and wood are abundant and three-dimensionally preserved (Herendeen et al. 1993)

Preservation: charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: Z. Zhou, W. L. Crepet, and K. C. Nixon. 2001. The earliest fossil evidence of the Hamamelidaceae: Late Cretaceous (Turonian) inflorescences and fruits of Altingioideae. American Journal of Botany 88:753-766 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28323: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 08.02.2003, edited by Julia Fosdick and Monica Arakaki

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