Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 42.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• 'Greensand'
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by L. T. Germain, W. J. Taylor; reposited in the ANSP
Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1865. Cretaceous reptiles of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge 192:1-135 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 129263: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 22.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano and Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Trionyx priscus Cope 1869 turtle The museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences contains a small portion of a costal plate of a Trionyx, from the Green-sand of Burlington County, New.Jersey. The fragment, together with its costal ridge, is nearly half an inch in thickness; the plate away from the ridge is about three lines and a half in thickness.
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"Chelone ornata" = Peritresius ornatus
"Chelone ornata" = Peritresius ornatus Leidy 1856 turtle | |
"Holops brevispinus" = Thoracosaurus brevispinus1
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| Actinopteri | |
"Conosaurops bowmani" = Conosaurus bowmani2
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