Southern shoreline of Raritan Bay: Early/Lower Campanian, New Jersey
collected by S. Lockwood 1869

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Iguanodontidae
Ornithotarsus immanis n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1869
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae
YPM 3221
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 74.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 43.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:9 feet
Geographic resolution:small collection
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:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Matawan Formation:Merchantville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "lower Cretaceous clays beneath the marl" - tentatively suggested as Woodbury Fm. by Colbert (1948), but argued to be more likely to be from the Merchantville Fm. by Brownstein (2021)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Secondary lithology: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "lower Cretaceous clays beneath the marl"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Associated major elements:all
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:S. Lockwood Collection dates:1869
Metadata
Also known as:Lorillard; Union Beach
Database number:46162
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-01-06 14:20:52 Last modified:2023-06-14 15:34:33
Access level:the public Released:2005-01-06 14:20:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15623.ETE E. D. Cope. 1869. On some reptilian remains. The American Journal of Science, series 2 48:278 [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]
9209 E. H. Colbert. 1948. A hadrosaurian dinosaur from New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 100:23-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15624ETE E. D. Cope. 1869. [On some specimens of extinct reptiles of interest]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15637ETE E. D. Cope. 1869. [Concerning a discovery of certain fossil remains found in New Jersey]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11:116-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
35435 E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
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]
12319ETE R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
62802 H. W. Miller. 1962. Appendix A: the Cretaceous reptiles of New Jersey. In H. G. Richards (ed.), The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, Part II 61:193-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
17109ETE H. W. Miller, Jr. 1955. A check-list of the Cretaceous and Tertiary vertebrates of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 29(5):903-914 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
16706ETE A. Prieto-Márquez, D. B. Weishampel, and J. R. Horner. 2006. The dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, from the Campanian of the East Coast of North America, with a reevaluation of the genus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):77-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
60758 W. F. Rapp. 1944. Check list of the fossil reptiles of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 18(3):285-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85047 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]