6 miles northwest of Freehold [AMNH + YPM]: Early/Lower Campanian, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Dryptosaurus aquilunguis
(Cope 1866)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 7624, tooth | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosaurus foulkii
Leidy 1858
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| AMNH 7626, partial jaw | ||||||||||
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= Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Brownstein 2021 | |||||||||
| YPMVPPU.021813, AMNH 7626 (YPM VPPU.021824, cast), YPM VPPU.04508, and AMNH 13704 ("gen. et. sp. nov.?") | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Monmouth |
| Coordinates: | 40.3° North, 74.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 44.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Matawan | Formation: | Merchantville | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: also assigned to Marshalltown Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH,YPM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125953 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Shalap, P. Mannion, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2012-03-27 09:49:57 | Last modified: | 2023-06-15 09:38:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-27 09:49:57 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54671. | W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 82407 | C. D. Brownstein. 2021. Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America. Royal Society Open Science 8:210127 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
| 39857 | W. B. Gallagher. 2005. Recent mosasaur discoveries from New Jersey and Delaware, USA: stratigraphy, taphonomy and implications for mosasaur extinction. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84(3):241-245 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
| 40903 | B. S. Grandstaff, D. C. Parris, and R. O. Johnson. 2011. Bonnerichthys gladius (Osteichthyes) from the Cretaceous of the Atlantic coastal states. Abstracts with Programs - Geological Society of America 43(1):87 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
| 85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |