Also known as Mt. Laurel
Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 44.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marshalltown Formation (Matawan Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; glauconitic, micaceous, silty sandstone and fine-grained, quartzose, black, argillaceous, sandy marl
•Revised description: "a clay and sand with beds of sandy marl"
•USGS description: "silty micaceous glauconite sand"
•Also described as "lignitic, clayey, and quartzose"
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: cast
Collected by E. Lauginiger
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Cast of Dryptosaurus tooth from the private collection of E. Lauginiger.
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 167663: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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