PBDB Collection

Big Brook (Navesink): Maastrichtian, New Jersey

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Dithophaga carolinensis	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Terabratulina cooperi	Gallagher et al. 1986
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae

	Cidaridae indet. Gray 1825	Gallagher et al. 1986
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae

	Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856	Gallagher 1984
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae

	Scapanorhynchus sp. Woodward 1889	Gallagher 1984
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae

	Squalicorax kaupi (Agassiz 1843)
Reptilia - Mosasauridae

	Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Halisaurus platyspondylus (Marsh 1869)	Gallagher 1993
Reptilia

	? Dryptosaurus sp. Marsh 1877	Gallagher et al. 1986
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosaurus sp. Leidy 1858	Gallagher et al. 1986
Reptilia

	Ankylosauria indet. Osborn 1923		1 specimen
	scute
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae

	Cimoliasaurus magnus (Leidy 1851)	Gallagher et al. 1986
	original and current combination Cimoliosaurus magnus
Reptilia - Testudines

	Peritresius ornatus (Leidy 1856)	Gallagher 1993	1 specimen
	PU 21709
Coelacanthimorpha - Coelacanthiformes - Latimeriidae

	Megalocoelacanthus dobiei Schwimmer et al. 1994	Schwimmer et al. 1994
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae

	Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Serpula pervermiformis Wade 1926	Gallagher et al. 1986
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha

	Longitubus lineatus	Gallagher et al. 1986
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae

	Belemnitella americana
Gastropoda - Turritellidae

	Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799	Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Naticidae

	Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860	Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae

	Radiopecten mississippiensis	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Pecten whitfieldi	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Pecten venustus	Gallagher et al. 1986
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Spondylidae

	Spondylus echinata	Gallagher et al. 1986
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae

	Meleagrinella abrupta	Gallagher et al. 1986
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae

	Lima pelagica Morton 1833	Gallagher et al. 1986
	recombined as Lima (Lima) pelagica
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae

	Plicatula urticosa	Gallagher et al. 1986
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae

	Agerostrea monmouthensis	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Agerostrea mesenterica (Morton 1834)	Gallagher 1984
	recombined as Lopha mesenterica

	Ostrea tecticosta Gabb 1860	Gallagher et al. 1986
	recombined as Cubitostrea tecticosta
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

	Pycnodonte convexa	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Pycnodonte mutabilis	Gallagher 1984

	Exogyra costata (Say 1820)	Gallagher 1984
	original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae

	Choristothyris vanuxemi	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Choristothyris plicata
unclassified

	Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831	Gallagher et al. 1986
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Dromiidae

	Costadromia hajzeri Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019	Feldmann and Schweitzer 2019
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Callianassidae

	Protocallianassa mortoni (Rathbun 1935)	Gallagher et al. 1986
	original and current combination Callianassa mortoni

	Callianassa mortoni Rathbun 1935
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae

	Cliona microtuberus	Gallagher et al. 1986

	Cliona cretacica	Gallagher 1984
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	New Jersey	County:	Monmouth
Coordinates:	40.3° North, 74.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	40.5° North, 49.2° West
Basis of coordinate:	estimated from map
Altitude:	34 meters
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:	Maastrichtian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:	Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:	72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Geological group:	Monmouth	Formation:	Navesink
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	glauconitic,micaceous,black,green claystone
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: "micaceous greenish-black glauconitic clay"
Environment:	marine indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils
Abundance in sediment:	abundant
Articulated whole bodies:	some
Feeding/predation traces:	drill holes

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis

Metadata

Database number:	57915
Authorizer:	M. Carrano, M. Uhen, C. Schweitzer	Enterer:	K. Maguire, M. Uhen, C. Schweitzer, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2006-01-06 11:12:10	Last modified:	2017-08-29 16:17:59
Access level:	the public	Released:	2006-01-06 11:12:10
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

40648.

F. Bukowski. 1980. Cretaceous fossils from New Jersey and Delaware. Earth Science 33(2):55-60 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]

Secondary references:

86601	decapod	R. M. Feldmann and C. E. Schweitzer. 2019. Earliest known sponge crab (Brachyura, Dromiidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Wenonah Formation, New Jersey, USA. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 45:1-6 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]
39861		W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]
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]
1580	ETE	W. B. Gallagher, D. C. Parris, and E. E. Spamer. 1986. Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey coastal plain. The Mosasaur 3:1-35 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
29295		D. R. Schwimmer, J. D. Steward, and G. D. Williams. 1994. Giant fossil coelacanths of the Late Cretaceous in the eastern United States. Geology 22:503-506 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]