Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.2° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. Lockwood
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1881. A new Clidastes from New Jersey. American Naturalist 15:587-588 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155702: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 25.04.2014, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Clidastes conodon n. sp." = Mosasaurus conodon
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