Where: Monmouth County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 50.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Navesink/Hornerstown Formation, Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)
• basal Hornerstown or Navesink Fm.; "middle marl beds"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by N. Waln; reposited in the YPM
Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1870. Notice of some fossil birds, from the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the United States. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 2 49(145):205-217 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 87905: authorized by Matt Carrano, entered by Matt Carrano on 27.03.2009