North bank of Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as 1.2 km east of Summit Bridge; C&D Canal

Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 45.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merchantville Formation (Matawan Group), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone

• reddish-brown silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Ralph Johnson, Ray Meyer, Wayne Cokeley in 1975; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: surface (in situ)

Primary reference: D. Baird and P. M. Galton. 1981. Pterosaur bones from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):67-71 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218129: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Avetheropoda - Dryptosauridae
Dryptosauridae indet. Marsh 1890 carnosaur
YPM-PU 21795