Crosswicks Creek [basal Hornerstown Fm.] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Freehold

Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 50.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• basal part of formation

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with phosphate

Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 167531: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.03.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Aves -
Aves indet. bird
NJSM unnumbered, broken bone
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852 crocodilian
NJSM 12215