Pennsylvania RR core, Merchantville (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Camden County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 44.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Woodbury Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Approx. 18 ft below the surface and a few meters above the molluscan horizon that lays at 23 ft. below the surface. Orig. Merchantville Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow claystone

• "iron rusty, brown and mottled yellow clay"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Woolman in 1896

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: L. Woolman. 1897. Bone of a dinosaur, an immense reptile, associated with ammonites and other molluscan fossils in Cretaceous (Matawan) clay marls, at Merchantville, N.J. New Jersey Survey Annual Report for 1896 248-250 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57171: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 07.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontidae
Ornithotarsus immanis Cope 1869 iguanodontid
ANSP 8956