near Freehold: Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by S. Lockwood

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Clidastes conodon n. sp. Cope 1881
1 individual
recombined as Mosasaurus conodon
AMNH 1380
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 74.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 49.3° 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
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:S. Lockwood
Metadata
Database number:155702
Authorizer:P. Mannion, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Tennant, M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2014-04-25 09:41:43 Last modified:2021-02-19 10:56:07
Access level:the public Released:2014-04-25 09:41:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

53320. E. D. Cope. 1881. A new Clidastes from New Jersey. American Naturalist 15:587-588 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

54671 W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]