Sayre & Fisher Brick Company claypits: Late/Upper Cenomanian, New Jersey
collected by J. Leonard, S. Stelz 1980

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella bakeri
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Middlesex
Coordinates: 40.5° North, 74.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 38.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Raritan Member:Woodbridge Clay
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Lithology description: Fine sand compacted into ferruginous sandstone some 10 feet in thickness, exposed at about halfway the depth of 20 feet.
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:J. Leonard, S. Stelz Collection dates:1980
Collection method comments: Repository: cast at New Jersey State Museum
Metadata
Database number:67774
Authorizer:J. Kriwet, M. Clapham Enterer:W. Glaeser, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2006-12-08 09:47:05 Last modified:2020-11-23 22:18:20
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-08 09:47:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
19362. G. R. Case. 1989. The Upper Cretaceous shark Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz) in the Raritan Formation (Cenomanian) of New Jersey. The Mosasaur 4:65-68 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]