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)
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