6 miles northwest of Freehold [AMNH + YPM] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 44.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Merchantville Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• also assigned to Marshalltown Fm.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the AMNH, YPM

Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 125953: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 27.03.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
AMNH 7626, partial jaw
 Theropoda -
Dryptosaurus aquilunguis Cope 1866 coelurosaur
AMNH 7624, tooth