Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 40.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Magothy Formation, Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)
• ?Magothy Clay, ?Turonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the YPM
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 129837: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 29.06.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Reptilia | |
Chedighaii sp. Gaffney et al. 2006 sideneck turtle |