Also known as KT loc. 428; Main Fossiliferous Layer; Jean and Ric Edelman Fossil Park

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.9° N, 39.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian to Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 61.7 Ma)

• Mixed Maastrichtian-Danian assemblage from the main fossiliferous layer (most likely a Maastrichtian lag deposit)

•"articulated skeletons and other unworn material, including most of the birds, are more probably not reworked but part of a new phase of deposition in the earliest Paleocene (D. Parris, pers. comm.)" (Hope 2002).

•Described as the "main fossiliferous layer"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Regensburg and Dilkes in 1957; Aug 1960

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1856. Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:220-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26819: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 05.11.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano, Jonathan Tennant, Patricia Holroyd, John Alroy and Philip Mannion

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