Also known as Lorillard; Union Beach
Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 43.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Merchantville Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• "lower Cretaceous clays beneath the marl" - tentatively suggested as Woodbury Fm. by Colbert (1948), but argued to be more likely to be from the Merchantville Fm. by Brownstein (2021)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. Lockwood in 1869; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1869. On some reptilian remains. The American Journal of Science, series 2 48:278 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46162: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 06.01.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Ornithotarsus immanis n. gen. n. sp.
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