Also known as Dryptosaurus & Laelaps type site, Barnesboro, Gloucester, Mantua
Where: Gloucestershire County, New Jersey (39.7° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 50.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: New Egypt Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• upper part of formation, from the top of the "chocolate" bed in the marl pits, about 20 ft below the surface
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green sandstone and brown marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. C. Voorhees in 1866–1872
Collection methods: mechanical,
• Found by J. C. Voorhees, Superintendent of the West Jersey Marl Company's Pits
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1866. [On the remains of a gigantic extinct dinosaur, from the Cretaceous Green Sand of New Jersey]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 18:275-279 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 48570: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.03.2005, edited by Phillip Elliott, Philip Mannion and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Osteopygis emarginatus" = Osteopygis emarginatus9, "Osteopygis gibbi n. sp." = Osteopygis emarginatus13
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"Taphrosphys sulcatus" = Taphrosphys sulcatus6, "Taphrosphys molops n. sp." = Taphrosphys sulcatus4, Taphrosphys nodosus7
"Taphrosphys sulcatus" = Taphrosphys sulcatus6 Leidy 1856 sideneck turtle AMNH 1470 (Hay, 1908, p. 119, fig. 119), neural bones, nuchal, carapace fragments; AMNH 1477 (Hay, 1908, fig. 120), shell fragments; AMNH 1468 (Cope, 1870, p. 166, fig. 45; Hay, 1908, figs. 99, 100), shell fragments; AMNH 1469, shell fragments; AMNH 2524 (Cope, 1870, p. 165, fig. 45), nuchal bone,
"Taphrosphys molops n. sp." = Taphrosphys sulcatus4 Leidy 1856 sideneck turtle AMNH 1472 (type of Taphrosphys molops Cope, figured in Cope, 1870, pl. 7, fig. 16; text figs. 43, 44; Hay, 1908, figs. 112-116), shell fragments;
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"Agomphus masculinus n. sp." = Agomphus pectoralis14
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"Lytoloma wielandi n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi9, "Osteopygis repandus n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi3
"Osteopygis repandus n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi3 Hay 1908 turtle AMNH 2353, holotype fragmentary shell
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"Russellosaurinae indet." = Russellosaurina1, "Tylosaurus rapax n. sp." = Prognathodon rapax8, "Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii1, "Mosasaurus oarthrus n. sp." = Mosasaurus hoffmannii4, Mosasaurus dekayi4
"Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 Mantell 1829 mosasaur Large tooth, no collection number
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Hyposaurus natator12 Troxell 1925 crocodilian Hyposaurus natator oweni n. subsp. - YPM 753 - type (part of the mandible, several dorso-lumbar vertebrae, a complete right pelvis, a few caudals, and some limb elements). Also included in the type material is an anterior lower jaw fragment of a second individual (Norell and Storrs 2003)
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"Laelaps aquilunguis n. gen. n. sp." = Dryptosaurus aquilunguis
"Laelaps aquilunguis n. gen. n. sp." = Dryptosaurus aquilunguis Cope 1866 coelurosaur ANSP 9995, AMNH 2348
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