Arneytown: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by J. G. Meirs
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
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Palaeotringa vetus n. sp.
Marsh 1870
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1 specimen | |||||||||
synonym of Telmatornis priscus | ||||||||||
ANSP 13361 | ||||||||||
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: | outcrop |
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 part of formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | green poorly lithified marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "a friable green marl" | |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collectors: | J. G. Meirs |
Metadata
Database number: | 87904 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2009-03-27 14:39:07 | Last modified: | 2017-12-04 15:07:54 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-03-27 14:39:07 |
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:
64006 | P. Brodkorb. 1978. Catalogue of fossil birds. Part 5 (Passeriformes). Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 23(3):139-228 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/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] | |
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] |