Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 49.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink Formation (Monmouth Group), Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• "foot of the Neversink Hills"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167771: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 31.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Mosasaurus dekayi n. sp.
Mosasaurus dekayi n. sp. Bronn 1838 mosasaur |