Also known as Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 45.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Merchantville Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tabular, glauconitic, micaceous, black, gray, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: D. Baird and P. M. Galton. 1981. Pterosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):67-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 46565: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005, edited by Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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