Big Brook (general): Late/Upper Campanian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra cancellata
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis Romer 1942
29 elements
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus levis (Cappetta and Case 1975)
1 element
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
4 elements
Chondrichthyes - Selachii
Selachii indet.
1 element
vertebrae and coprolites
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Pseudohypolophus sp. Cappetta and Case 1975
1 element
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856
30 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838
228 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax sp. Whitley 1939
1906 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus (Roemer 1852)
654 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
Plicatolamna arcuata (Woodward 1894)
311 elements
synonym of Archaeolamna kopingensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Paranomotodon angustidens (Reuss 1845)
48 elements
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Plicatolamna borodini Cappetta and Case 1975
2 elements
recombined as Protolamna borodini
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz 1835)
246 elements
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus bifurcatus Case 1978
9 elements
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
2 specimens
    = Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2006
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Mosasaurus sp. Parkinson 1822
18 specimens
teeth (fragmentary)
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Anomoeodus phaseolus (Hay 1899)
15 elements
Actinopteri
Teleostei indet. Müller 1846
1 element
isolated scale
Actinopteri - Aulopiformes - Enchodontidae
Enchodus ferox Leidy 1855
156 elements
93 isolated teeth, 63 jaw fragments
Actinopteri - Tetraodontiformes - Eotrigonodontidae
Stephanodus sp. Zittel 1883
3 elements
Actinopteri - Ichthyodectiformes - Ichthyodectidae
Xiphactinus sp. Leidy 1870
5 elements
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.3° North, 74.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.4° North, 44.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Campanian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group
Stratigraphy comments: From Marshalltown, Wenonah and undifferentiated Mount Laurel-Navasink Formations
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandstone
Secondary lithology:gray silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Mt Laurel-Navesink: light gray, coarse clastic sand which contains some clay. Wenonah Fm: dark gray, silty, very fine sand. Marshalltown Fm: massive, greenish-gray fine silty sands.
Environment:marginal marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,trace,coprolite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:condensed
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32181
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:E. Leckey, J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate,vertebrate
Created:2003-06-09 10:33:23 Last modified:2017-08-29 16:21:49
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-09 10:33:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8667.5% 24300E. M. Lauginiger. 1986. An Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage from Big Brook, New Jersey. The Mosasaur 3:53-61 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

18120 J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]