Southern shoreline of Raritan Bay: Early/Lower Campanian, New Jersey
collected by S. Lockwood 1869
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Iguanodontidae
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Ornithotarsus immanis n. gen., n. sp.
Cope 1869
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1 individual | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae | ||||||||||
YPM 3221 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Monmouth |
Coordinates: | 40.4° North, 74.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.5° North, 43.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Altitude: | 9 feet | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
Age range of interval: | 83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Matawan | Formation: | Merchantville | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "lower Cretaceous clays beneath the marl" - tentatively suggested as Woodbury Fm. by Colbert (1948), but argued to be more likely to be from the Merchantville Fm. by Brownstein (2021) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | claystone |
Secondary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "lower Cretaceous clays beneath the marl" | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | YPM | ||
Collectors: | S. Lockwood | Collection dates: | 1869 |
Metadata
Also known as: | Lorillard; Union Beach | ||
Database number: | 46162 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-01-06 14:20:52 | Last modified: | 2023-06-14 15:34:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-06 14:20:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
15623. | ETE | E. D. Cope. 1869. On some reptilian remains. The American Journal of Science, series 2 48:278 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
82407 | C. D. Brownstein. 2021. Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America. Royal Society Open Science 8:210127 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] | |
9209 | E. H. Colbert. 1948. A hadrosaurian dinosaur from New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 100:23-37 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
15624 | ETE | E. D. Cope. 1869. [On some specimens of extinct reptiles of interest]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:123 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
15637 | ETE | E. D. Cope. 1869. [Concerning a discovery of certain fossil remains found in New Jersey]. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11:116-117 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
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] | |
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] | |
12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
62802 | H. W. Miller. 1962. Appendix A: the Cretaceous reptiles of New Jersey. In H. G. Richards (ed.), The Cretaceous Fossils of New Jersey, Part II 61:193-196 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
17109 | ETE | H. W. Miller, Jr. 1955. A check-list of the Cretaceous and Tertiary vertebrates of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 29(5):903-914 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
16706 | ETE | A. Prieto-Márquez, D. B. Weishampel, and J. R. Horner. 2006. The dinosaur Hadrosaurus foulkii, from the Campanian of the East Coast of North America, with a reevaluation of the genus. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(1):77-98 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
60758 | W. F. Rapp. 1944. Check list of the fossil reptiles of New Jersey. Journal of Paleontology 18(3):285-288 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
85047 | D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |