Farmingdale: Early/Lower Hemingfordian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Suliformes - Sulidae
Morus loxostyla (Cope 1870)
Becker 1987
recombined as Moris loxostyla
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Gallagher et al. 1995
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium sp. von Meyer 1844
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
repeated by Gallagher et al. 1995 with no justification
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras cf. cooki (Peterson 1906)
    = Menoceras cf. barbouri Wood 1964
Alroy 2002
presumably includes "Diceratherium" of Gallagher et al. 1995
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Daeodon leidyanum (Marsh in Cope 1868)
    = Entelodontidae indet. Lydekker 1883
Alroy 2002
"Daeodon=Ammodon" of Gallagher et al. 1995
Ammodon leidyanum n. sp. (Marsh in Cope 1868)
Marsh 1893 1 specimen
original and current combination Elotherium leidyanum
exact locality unknown: YPM catalog states Farmingdale
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Perchoerus (Dicotyles) antiquus (Marsh 1870)
Marsh 1893 1 specimen
recombined as Hesperhys antiquus
called "Hesperhys='Cynorca'" by Gallagher et al. 1995
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras sp. (Frick 1937)
original and current combination Synthetoceras (Prosynthetoceras)
this is Prosynthetoceras sensu stricto and is from "Locality 326, Shark River, west of the Garden State Parkway": Patton and Taylor 1971
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 74.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.5° North, 70.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kirkwood Member:Asbury Park
Local section:Krkwd Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: said to be early Hemingfordian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:underlies Alloway Clay Mbr.
said to be early Hemingfordian, but includes some key Harrisonian taxa, as noted by Lucas et al. 1998
"Diceratherium matutinum": status unclear, not mentioned by Prothero 1998d
Metadata
Database number:17910
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2012-03-29 16:43:48
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3383. R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
75080 J. J. Becker. 1987. Neogene Avian Localities of North America 1-171 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
1581 W. B. Gallagher, E. Gilmore, D. C. Parris and B. S. Grandstaff. 1995. Miocene land mammals from the Kirkwood Formation of New Jersey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(3):30A-31A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2297 S. G. Lucas, R. J. Emry, and S. E. Foss. 1998. Taxonomy and distribution of Daeodon, an Oligocene-Miocene entelodont (Mammalia: Artiodactyla) from North America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 111(2):425-435 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
40975 O. C. Marsh. 1893. Description of Miocene Mammalia. American Journal of Science 46(275):407-412 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]