Also known as Birmingham
Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 50.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hornerstown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• basal part of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. C. Gaskill in 1869; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1870. Notice of some fossil birds, from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the United States. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 49(145):205-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87902: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.03.2009, edited by Philip Mannion and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Zygoramma striatula n. gen. n. sp." = Adocus striatula4 Cope 1869 turtle AMNH 2358 (holotype partial shell)
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"Agomphus tardus n. sp." = Agomphus pectoralis7
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"Lytoloma angusta n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi2, "Erquelinnesia molaria n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi3
"Lytoloma angusta n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi2 Hay 1908 turtle AMNH 1133, holotype three peripheral bones, a fragment of a costal, and a lower jaw, only doubtfully associated
"Erquelinnesia molaria n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi3 Hay 1908 turtle AMNH 9220; presented by Rev. L. H. Lighthipe
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"Osteopygis platylomus n. sp." = Osteopygis emarginatus2, "Osteopygis robustus n. sp." = Osteopygis emarginatus3
"Osteopygis platylomus n. sp." = Osteopygis emarginatus2 Cope 1868 turtle ANSP specimen shell fragments collected by Samuel Ashhurst
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Laornis edvardsianus n. gen. n. sp.
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"Hyposaurus fraterculus n. sp." = Thoracosaurus neocesariensis1
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"Hyposaurus ferox n. sp." = Hyposaurus rogersii5
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