"Blue Area" spoils piles: Campanian, Delaware
collected by E. Hartstein
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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Globidens alabamaensis
(Gilmore 1912)
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Gallagher 1993 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| original and current combination Globidens alabamensis | ||||||||||
| NJSM 12504 (cast of private specimen, E. Hartstein coll.) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Ornithocheiridae indet.
Seeley 1870
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| PU 21820, 22359, cervical vertebra and humerus | ||||||||||
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= ? Pteranodon sp.
Marsh 1876
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Bennett 1994 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Delaware | County: | New Castle |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 75.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 45.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 68 feet | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Matawan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: spoils piles - no stratigraphy remaining | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tabular,glauconitic,micaceous,black,gray argillaceous,silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "thick-bedded, silty and clayey sand grading downward from pale gray to dark grayish black, glauconitic and micaceous" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | E. Hartstein |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Chesapeake & Delaware Canal | ||
| Database number: | 167538 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2015-03-20 17:25:08 | Last modified: | 2015-04-01 16:52:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-20 17:25:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12430. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 31085 | S. C. Bennett. 1994. Taxonomy and systematics of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon (Pterosauria, Pterodactyloidea). Occasional Papers of the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas 169:1-70 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
| 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] |