ammonites
Jessup Police Barracks, Arundel (USNM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Jessop

Where: Howard County, Maryland (39.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 30.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arundel Clay Formation (Potomac Group), Early/Lower Aptian (125.5 - 122.5 Ma)

• now considered early-mid Aptian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: P. M. Galton and J. A. Jensen. 1979. Remains of ornithopod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. Brigham Young University Geology Studies 25(3):1-10 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 47347: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 23.02.2005