Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 42.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (99.6 - 65.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Wirter & T. Matlack in 1787
• reported by Dr. Caspar Wirter and Timothy Matlack to Amer Phil Soc.
Primary reference: J. B. Delair and W. A. S. Sarjeant. 2002. The earliest discoveries of dinosaurs: the records re-examined. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 113:185-197 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83123: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 07.08.2008