Also known as Chesapeake & Delaware Canal
Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 45.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Matawan Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• spoils piles - no stratigraphy remaining
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; tabular, glauconitic, micaceous, black, gray, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by E. Hartstein
Collection methods: salvage,
Primary reference: D. Baird and P. M. Galton. 1981. Pterosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):67-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 167538: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 20.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Globidens alabamaensis" = Globidens alabamensis2
"Globidens alabamaensis" = Globidens alabamensis2 Gilmore 1912 mosasaur NJSM 12504 (cast of private specimen, E. Hartstein coll.)
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