Button Wood Farm (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.3° N, 74.3° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 49.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-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

• 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 213748: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus levis Cappetta and Case 1975 stingray
 Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis Romer 1942 eagle ray
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri, "Odontaspis hardingi" = Carcharias hardingi
"Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
"Odontaspis hardingi" = Carcharias hardingi Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
ssp. lata
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray