Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 70.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Asbury Park Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• said to be early Hemingfordian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17910: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
said to be early Hemingfordian, but includes some key Harrisonian taxa, as noted by Lucas et al. 1998
"Diceratherium matutinum": status unclear, not mentioned by Prothero 1998d
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"Morus loxostyla" = Moris loxostyla2
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"Ammodon leidyanum n. sp." = Daeodon shoshonensis4 Cope 1878 even-toed ungulate exact locality unknown: YPM catalog states Farmingdale
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Prosynthetoceras sp. Frick 1937 protoceratid this is Prosynthetoceras sensu stricto and is from "Locality 326, Shark River, west of the Garden State Parkway": Patton and Taylor 1971
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"Perchoerus (Dicotyles) antiquus" = Hesperhys antiquus4
"Perchoerus (Dicotyles) antiquus" = Hesperhys antiquus4 Marsh 1870 peccary called "Hesperhys='Cynorca'" by Gallagher et al. 1995
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