Where: Middlesex County, New Jersey (40.5° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 38.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Woodbridge Clay Member (Raritan Formation), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
•at about halfway the depth of 20 feet.
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Leonard, S. Stelz in 1980
• Repository: cast at New Jersey State Museum
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1989. The Upper Cretaceous shark Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz) in the Raritan Formation (Cenomanian) of New Jersey. The Mosasaur 4:65-68 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 67774: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 08.12.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Chondrichthyes | |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella bakeri turret shell | |