Tinton Falls, red sand: Late Maastrichtian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Lyreididae
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Rathbun 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 74.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 33.3° West (Wright 2013)
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:Tinton
Stratigraphy comments: Manasquan River Basin, Monmouth County, New Jersey, U.S.A. lower Paleocene (Danian), Monmouth County, New Jersey (U.S.A)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic sandstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Weller is believed to have collected the specimens in the Tinton beds near Tinton Falls (M. mortoni), may also be stored at Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the New Jersey State Museum;

Van Bakel specimens include: Symethoides monmouthorum n. gen., n. sp. (Raninidae, Symethinae), lower Paleocene (Danian), Monmouth County, New Jersey (U.S.A), AMNH 50421 (holotype); AMNH 50421(paratype)
Metadata
Database number:141938
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Uhen Enterer:S. Yost, M. Uhen
Modifier:J. Fearon Research group:decapod
Created:2013-04-03 03:50:14 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2018-04-03 03:50:14
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
46002.decapod,fossil record B. W. M. van Bakel, D. Guinot, P. Artal, R. H. B. Fraaije, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. A revision of the Palaeocorystoidea and the phylogeny of raninoidian crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Podotremata). Zootaxa 3215:1-216 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost/J. Fearon]

Secondary references:

45555decapod,fossil record M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]