Daminger Farm (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Damminger

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.7° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 50.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: New Egypt Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; massive, burrowed, glauconitic, brown, gray, argillaceous sandstone and glauconitic, sandy claystone

• "Dark gray to chocolate brown massive burrowed glauconitic clayey sand to sandy glauconitic clay, indurated locally by siderite, and containing quartz as a minor constituent."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 167650: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Cimoliasaurus magnus
Cimoliasaurus magnus Leidy 1851 elasmosaur
NJSM 11262; vertebrae