Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 45.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Laurel Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• top of Mt. Laurel (perhaps also bottom of Navesink)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124933: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.02.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Cliona aretacica demosponge | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitella americana belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Volutoderma biplicata volute | |
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli, Gyrodes sp.
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli Gabb 1860 moon snail
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
"Pecten (Neitha) quinquecostata" = Neithea quinquecostata
"Pecten (Neitha) quinquecostata" = Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
"Ostrea falcata" = Agerostrea falcata
"Ostrea falcata" = Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Polychaeta | |
Malacostraca | |
Callianassa mortoni Rathbun 1935 decapod | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
"Odontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis
"Odontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark | |
Squalicorax pristodontis crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Ischyodus sp. Egerton 1843 plownose chimaera | |
Reptilia | |
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