Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 43.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Woodbury Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• No stratigraphic detail given for many of the localities, but map location suggests that it probably comes from the Woodbury Formation.
• 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 213752: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.09.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
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Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark |