Irrigation pond on Jackson Road: Maastrichtian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella indet. d'Orbigny 1840
Reptilia - Plesiosauria - Elasmosauridae
Cimoliasaurus magnus (Leidy 1851)
1 individual
original and current combination Cimoliosaurus magnus
NJSM 11262
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Gloucester
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 75.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 50.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:Navesink
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "recovered from spoil piles dredged from the uppermost levels of the Navesink Formation"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Abundance in sediment:few
Fragmentation:frequent
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:salvage,surface (float)
Collection size:1 individuals
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"all New Jersey plesiosaurs were found in formations that contain the Cucullaea faunal association (Weller, 1907)"
Metadata
Database number:102186
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:H. Street
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-01-11 07:12:16 Last modified:2014-10-30 16:02:43
Access level:the public Released:2011-01-11 07:12:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
34695. D. C. Parris. 1974. Additional records of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 48(1):32-35 [M. Carrano/H. Street]