Also known as Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 45.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Merchantville Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• spoils piles - no stratigraphy remaining
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tabular, glauconitic, micaceous, black, gray, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. Hartstein
Collection methods: salvage,
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 46566: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.01.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
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"Ornithomimus antiquus" = Coelosaurus antiquus2
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Tylosaurus sp. Marsh 1872 mosasaur | |
Toxochelys sp. Cope 1873 turtle | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Ostrea falcata" = Agerostrea falcata1
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"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata1
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