Also known as Lumberton
Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 49.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; glauconitic, green marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by G.R. Case
Collection methods: salvage,
• fossils found "in spoil heaps piled up by a bulldozer excavating for an irrigation pond"
Primary reference: D. Baird and G. R. Case. 1966. Rare marine reptiles from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 40(5):1211-1215 [M. Carrano/H. Street]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 99138: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Hallie Street on 28.10.2010, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Squatina hassei Leriche 1929 angel shark | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
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Edaphodon sp. Buckland 1838 chimaera | |
Reptilia | |
Prionochelys nauta Zangerl 1953 turtle | |
Mosasaurus conodon Cope 1881 mosasaur | |
Actinopteri | |
Anomoeodus sp. Forir 1887 | |
Enchodus sp. Agassiz 1835 | |
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883 |