New Jersey amber (Wunderlich coll) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 40.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Raritan Formation (Potomac Group), Turonian (93.9 - 89.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: soft parts, amber

Collection methods: Repository: collection of Jorg Wunderlich

Primary reference: J. Wunderlich. 2011. Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Cretaceous ambers. Beiträge zur Araneologie 6:539-557 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148638: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Arachnida
 Araneae - Uloboridae
Jerseyuloborus longisoma n. gen. n. sp.
Jerseyuloborus longisoma n. gen. n. sp. Wunderlich 2011 hackled orb-weaver
F2207/NJ/AR/CJW
 Araneae - Huttoniidae
? Huttoniidae indet. Simon 1893 spider
F2464/NJ/CJW
 Araneae - Lagonomegopidae
? Lagonomegops ? americanus Penney 2005 spider
F2565/NJ.CJW