Cnr Main St and Truman Ave Clay Pits (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as New Jersey amber

Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 38.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: IV (Christopher, 1982) pollen zone, Woodbridge Clay Member (Raritan Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified amber and claystone

• "...imbedded in amber from the Woodbridge Clay Member of the Raritan Formation..."

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collected by Gerard R. Case in 27th March, 1966

• Collection stored in the Princeton University Museum Of Natural History (PU 88892A)

Primary reference: W. L. Grogan and R. Szadziewski. 1988. A new biting midge from Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of New Jersey (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). Journal of Paleontology 62(5):808-812 [J. Alroy/B. Mamo/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 110959: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Briony Mamo on 16.06.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Culicoides casei
Culicoides casei Grogan and Szadziewski 1988 biting midge
biting midge in amber