Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 49.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• two layers, upper part of formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; glauconitic, pebbly, black, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. Gallagher

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 78124: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.01.2008, edited by Margaret Shalap, Matthew Carrano and Pete Wagner

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