Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 50.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• basal part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified, green marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. G. Meirs
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1870. Notice of some fossil birds, from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the United States. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 49(145):205-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87904: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Palaeotringa vetus n. sp." = Telmatornis priscus
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