Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 50.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 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: Early Maastrichtian on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic, phosphatic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, replaced with phosphate
Collection methods: surface (float),
• 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 83067: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 06.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Eubaculites cf. labyrinthicus Morton 1834 ammonite | |
Sphenodiscus lobatus Tuomey 1856 ammonite |