Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 50.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• lowermost part of formation
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; marl
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1869. Notice of some new mosasauroid reptiles from the Greensand of New Jersey. American Journal of Science, second series 48(144):392-397 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 88034: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 30.03.2009, edited by Hallie Street, Roger Benson, Philip Mannion, Mark Uhen, Evangelos Vlachos and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Mosasaurus princeps n. sp." = Mosasaurus hoffmannii, "Mosasaurus meirsii n. sp." = Mosasaurus dekayi, "Leiodon laticaudus n. sp." = Tylosaurus laticaudus7
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"Catapleura ponderosa n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi3 Hay 1908 turtle AMNH 1475, holotype fragmentary skeleton
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"Taphrosphys leslianus n. sp." = Taphrosphys sulcatus2 Leidy 1856 sideneck turtle AMNH 1467; partial shell, collected by Dr. S. Lockwood
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Aves | |
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Palaeotringa vagans n. sp.8
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Dipristis meirsii n. sp." = Edaphodon miersii6
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