Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.6° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 36.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mount Laurel Formation, Cretaceous (145.5 - 65.5 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; medium-grained, glauconitic, brown, green, red, white, silty, sandy quartzite
•medium s i l ty qua r t z s and. Cont a ins a ma c roinve r t ebr a t e
•f auna of we l l ove r a hundr ed spe c i e s . Thi s forma t ion
•a l so cont a ins a f a i r amount of sha rk ma t e r i a l . The
•l i thology and fos s i l s indi c a t e tha t i t wa s depos i t ed
•dur ing a s l ight r egr e s s ion
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. M. Lauginiger and E. F. Hartstein. 1983. A guide to fossil sharks, skates, and rays from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal area, Delaware. Open File Report - Delaware Geological Survey 21:1-63 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 126598: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 09.04.2012