Also known as Middletown
Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii
"Mosasaurus maximus" = Mosasaurus hoffmannii Mantell 1829 mosasaur | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnites sp. belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801 oyster |