Crawford farm, Nut Swamp: Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by P. R. Brinckerhoff, J. M. Smith, L. Conover 1845, 1860

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Belemnites sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus maximus Cope 1869
1 individual
synonym of Mosasaurus hoffmannii
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 74.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 49.0° 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: marl
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. R. Brinckerhoff, J. M. Smith, L. Conover Collection dates:1845, 1860
Metadata
Also known as:Middletown
Database number:189419
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-10-18 12:58:21 Last modified:2021-02-19 10:57:35
Access level:the public Released:2017-10-18 12:58:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
35435. E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]