Hampton Cutter Clay Works tracksite (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Also known as Woodbridge

Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.6° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 38.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woodbridge Clay Member (Raritan Formation), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; unlithified, concretionary, sideritic, carbonaceous claystone

• "marginal-marine mangrove-type swamps"
• from "largely a thin- to thick-bedded sequence of micaceous silts and clays, containing an enormous amount of woody fragments and siderite concretions"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1929–1930

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• single specimen remains in Rutgers University Geological Museum

Primary reference: H. W. Miller. 1962. Appendix A: the Cretaceous reptiles of New Jersey. In H. G. Richards (ed.), The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, Part II 61:193-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 46620: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.01.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.2
Hadrosauridae indet.2 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
 Avetheropoda -
Carnosauria indet.1
1Baird 1989; 2Horner 1979