Waln marl pit, Hornerstown: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by N. Waln
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
- Graculavidae
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Palaeotringa littoralis n. gen., n. sp.
Marsh 1870
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| YPM 830 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Monmouth |
| Coordinates: | 40.1° North, 74.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.4° North, 50.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rancocas | Formation: | Hornerstown | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: basal Hornerstown or Navesink Fm.; "middle marl beds" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
| Collectors: | N. Waln |
Metadata
| Database number: | 87905 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-03-27 14:51:11 | Last modified: | 2015-03-20 16:33:13 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-27 14:51:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 29790. | ETE | O. C. Marsh. 1870. Notice of some fossil birds, from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the United States. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 49(145):205-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 7438 | W. B. Gallagher. 2002. Faunal changes across the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) boundary in the Atlantic coastal plain of New Jersey: restructuring the marine community after the K-T mass-extinction event. Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and beyond. GSA Special Paper 356:291-301 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Carrano] |