Big Brook (BBR) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Navesink Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• From the lower part of the Navesink Fm

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by G.R. Case

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: University of Montpellier II

Primary reference: H. Cappetta and G. R. Case. 1975. Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 151:1-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 213745: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
 Lamniformes - Pseudocoracidae
Pseudocorax aff. affinis2 Agassiz 1843 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Paranomotodon cf. angustidens Reuss 1845 thresher shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Odontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis, "Odontaspis hardingi" = Carcharias hardingi, "Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri
"Odontaspis holmdelensis" = Carcharias holmdelensis Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
"Odontaspis hardingi" = Carcharias hardingi Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
"Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
"Hypotodus aculeatus" = Odontaspis aculeatus
"Hypotodus aculeatus" = Odontaspis aculeatus Cappetta and Case 1975 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp.2 Whitley 1939 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
"Plicatolamna borodini" = Protolamna borodini
"Plicatolamna borodini" = Protolamna borodini Cappetta and Case 1975 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
ssp. lata
 Squatiniformes - Squatinidae
Squatina hassei Leriche 1929 angel shark
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
"Hybodus novojerseyensis" = Meristodonoides novojerseyensis2
"Hybodus novojerseyensis" = Meristodonoides novojerseyensis2 Case and Cappetta 2004 elasmobranch
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis Romer 1942 eagle ray
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus bifurcatus1 Case 1978 plownose chimaera