Cliffwood Beach: Turonian, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Bothremys sp.
Leidy 1865
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Gallagher 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
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= Chedighaii barberi
Schmidt 1940
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Gaffney et al. 2006 | |||||||||
| YPM PU 12951, natural endocast of skull; a cast of this endocast and its mold are AMNH 30567 | ||||||||||
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= Chedighaii sp.
Gaffney et al. 2006
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Gaffney et al. 2009 | |||||||||
| YPM PU 12951 (Gaffney et al., 2006: figs. 166, 167), can still be identified as Chedighaii sp. It clearly lacks triturating pits and is most similar to ALAB PV 2001.2. | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Mollusca indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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Callianassa sp.
Leach 1814
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| claws | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Monmouth |
| Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 74.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 40.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Turonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 6 |
| Key time interval: | Turonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 93.90000 - 89.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Magothy | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ?Magothy Clay, ?Turonian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,cast |
| Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 129837 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano | Enterer: | R. Benson, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | paleoentomology |
| Created: | 2012-06-29 01:36:41 | Last modified: | 2021-09-22 14:16:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-06-29 01:36:41 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 41941 | E. S. Gaffney, G. E. Hooks III, and V. P. Schneider. 2009. New material of North American side-necked turtles (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae). American Museum Novitates 3655:1-26 [R. Benson/R. Benson] | |
| 27976 | E. S. Gaffney, H. Tong, and P. A. Meylan. 2006. Evolution of the side-necked turtles: The families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae, and Araripemydidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 300:1-318 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/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] |