near Freehold (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
"Clidastes conodon n. sp." = Mosasaurus conodon
"Clidastes conodon n. sp." = Mosasaurus conodon Cope 1881 mosasaur
AMNH 1380