Atlantic Highlands, 0.9 m [Navesink Fm] (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 41.4° N, 36.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nostoceras hyatti ammonoid zone, Navesink Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Navesink, which at this section unconformably overlies the Mount Laurel Sand (Campanian), and is regionally overlain by the Red Bank Sand (Maastrichtian). AGE: Late Campanian on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Nostoceras hyatti zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 0.9 m above base of the section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic setting.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Glauconitic sand. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: Monmouth Amateur Paleontologists Society, ~1980-2000. REPOSITORY: Monmouth Amateur Paleontologists Society (MAPS).

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy, N. H. Landman, W. A. Cobban and R. O. Johnson. 2000. Additions to the ammonite fauna of the Upper Cretaceous Navesink Formation of New Jersey. American Museum Novitates 3306:1-30 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83065: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for ammonoids, other groups may be present, but are not listed. NOMENCLATURE: An authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
Nostoceras (Nostoceras) mendryki
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Jeletzkytes cf. plenus