Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 51.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 61.6 Ma)
• presumably Hornerstown Fm, but unknown levels
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G. R. Case in 1978
Collection methods: surface (float),
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and D. C. Parris. 1987. The Cretaceous birds of New Jersey. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 63:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88096: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 01.04.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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