Cream Ridge Marl Company pit (Hornerstown Fm.): Late/Upper Maastrichtian, New Jersey
collected by J. G. Meirs, W. Ross 1871

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Agomphus sp. Cope 1871
Wieland 1905 1 specimen
YPM 775, possibly a new species
Agomphus ? turgidus (Cope 1870)
Wieland 1905 1 specimen
synonym of Agomphus pectoralis
YPM 776, "doubtless" from this locality
Reptilia - Testudines - Toxochelyidae
Propleura borealis n. sp. Wieland 1904
Wieland 1904
Yale 778, partial shell
Reptilia - Charadriiformes
Telmatornis priscus n. gen., n. sp. Marsh 1870
1 specimen
YPM 840
Telmatornis affinis n. sp. Marsh 1870
1 specimen
synonym of Telmatornis priscus
YPM 845
Reptilia - Anseriformes
Telmatornis rex n. sp. Shufeldt 1915
Shufeldt 1915 1 individual
recombined as Anatalavis rex
YPM 902, 948
Reptilia
Hyposaurus natator n. sp. Troxell 1925
Troxell 1925
YPM 985 - type (partial skeleton comprising the skull and jaws, limb bones, pelvis, shoulder, 33 vertebrae, and fragments of ribs); YPM 380 - "heautotype" (incomplete mandible and fragmentary postcrania)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 74.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 50.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 8
Key time interval:Late/Upper Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Rancocas Formation:Hornerstown
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: marl
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:YPM
Collectors:J. G. Meirs, W. Ross Collection dates:1871
Metadata
Database number:87903
Authorizer:M. Carrano, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion Enterer:M. Carrano, E. Vlachos, P. Mannion
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-03-27 14:19:33 Last modified:2022-01-24 11:10:19
Access level:the public Released:2009-03-27 14:19:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
29790.ETE 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]

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]
29473ETE S. L. Olson and D. C. Parris. 1987. The Cretaceous birds of New Jersey. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 63:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57738 R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
39525 E. L. Troxell. 1925. Hyposaurus, a marine crocodilian. American Journal of Science 9:489-514 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
66781 G. R. Wieland. 1904. Structure of the Upper Cretaceous Turtles of New Jersey: Adocus, Osteopygis, and Propleura. American Journal of Science 17(98):112-142 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
14730ETE G. R. Wieland. 1905. Structure of the Upper Cretaceous turtles of New Jersey: Agomphus. The American Journal of Science, series 4 20:430-444 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]