Also known as Middletown
Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 41.4° N, 36.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.2 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by P. R. Brinckerhoff, J. M. Smith, L. Conover in 1845, 1860
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 189419: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 18.10.2017
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Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
"Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii
"Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell 1829 mosasaur | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Belemnites sp. Lamarck 1799 belemnite | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Terebratula sp. Müller 1776 | |