Here is a small portion of the M.A.P.S. (Monmouth Amateur Paleontologists Association) collection with the curator, Ralph Johnson, standing to next to some of the display cases (the M.A.P.S. collection is the product of over 30 years of collecting in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland).  Ralph has co-authored several publications on the ammonites from the the NJ Coastal Plain with such well-known paleontologists as Jim Kennedy, William Cobban, and Neil Landman.  .

Several specimens in this impressive collection constitute the only known examples of these species from the Altantic Coastal Plain.   Since this project cannot succeed without the help of academic institutions and fellow collectors like yourself, we've dedicated this page to thank everyone for the photographs and intellectual input that make this site successful.  In seven years we've managed to build a dialog with many key contributors and add several hundred fossil and mineral photographs to the site! We would like to encourage other collectors to participate in this worthwhile endeavor. Although most of the photos don't have copyright tags (with the approval of our contributors of course), keep in mind that all photographs and original content remain the property of these contributors, and they may not be used without their permission.

1. Giorgio Agostinelli sent us several ammonite photos.
2. Dan Woehr sent us several fossil photos.
3. Theodore Bernhardt Jr. sent us some fossil pics from the Cretaceous of Delaware.
4. Eric Rosene was kind enough to send us pictures of a Tetratgramma taffi (echinoid).
5. We would like to thank Shawn Arnett for letting us photograph a coral from the Grayson Formation.
6. George Hansen and Scott Fleenor found a couple of the rudists that we have on the site.
7. Marlene Garo sent us pictures of a Cretaceous frog.
8. Robert Woodruff sent us several pieces of Cretaceous wood from Illinois.
9. George Phillips, Curator of the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, was kind enough to send us a picture of a very Late Cretaceous crab from Mississippi.
10. Maarten Haverkamp sent us images of several mosasaurs.  Thanks!
11. Kevin Durney was kind enough to let us photograph a huge ammonite.
12. Delyse Jaeger with the Eaton Hill Wildlife Sanctuary in Sonora, Texas let us photograph some rudists from the Segovia Limestone.
13. Kathleen and Paul Freeman let us grab a shot of a Jurassic dino scale replica:  Stegosaurus sp.
14. Ann Livingston sent us a cool looking clam:  Arctica texana (Conrad).
15. Lee Garrison sent us a dino tooth from Morocco:  Carcharodontosaurus sp.
16. Robert Randall sent us an incredible Cenomanian ammonite, Acanthoceras rhotomagense.
17. Jack and Derek Hill were nice enough to let us use images of a rudist, Durania austinensis (Roemer), that they found in float from Spring Creek, Dallas, Texas.
18. Jing Li gave us permission to show some of her Big Bend National Park images in our Scenic Geology section.  Go to the link for Texas.  Thanks Jing!
19. Adam Armstrong sent us images of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis Gilmore.
20. Grant Elliott sent us images of a Triceratops rib with bite marks on it and some plant material from the Raritan Formation of New Jersey.
21. Cyril Baudouin sent us images of several ammonites, including of a Mortoniceras (Subschloenbachia) rostratum (J. Sowerby) with a beautiful curved rostrum.  Merci beaucoup!
22. Don and Kean Megahan has just come on board as cf.com contributors.  Check out images of Kean's ammonite, DipolocerasDipoloceras) tarrantense Scott!  Don also has an incredibly huge shark tooth collection and has allowed us to photograph it.  Check the Sharks and Rays section from time to time to see future additions from his collection.  Some of Don's Paleozoic cephalopods are already on the site (Non-Cretaceous section).
23. Brent Dunn has sent us an image of Euomphaloceras septemseriatim (Cragin).
24. We would like to thank Gerardo Perez Reveles for sending images of a great specimen of Coahuilites sheltoni  (Boese).
25. We would like to thank Professor Norm King at the University of Southern Indiana for sending images of an incredible specimen of Inoceramus (Volviceramus) grandis (Conrad).
26. We would like to graciously thank Ed and Cathy Swiatovy for allowing us to add their large Cretodus tooth to our Shark Section.
27. Mike Munsil has added his name to the list of growing contributors with photos of his Placenticeras planum Hyatt.  We greatly appreciate your help!  Thanks Mike!
28. We would like to thank Dr. Ed Hooks, Curator of the Natural History Museum of Alabama, for allowing us show "Artemus", a mosasaur that they excavated in June of 2002.
29. We want to thank preparator David Lueth, also with the the AMNH, separately since he is sending us other fossil photos as well.  He took the images of "Artemus".  Many thanks!
30. We would like to thank Mike Everhart for graciously allowing us to use select literature references from his spectacular Oceans of Kansas Website.  O of K is without a doubt one of the best websites on the net!  Check out the Kiowa Shale oysters and gastropods that he sent us.
31. We now have a long sought after contributor, Ralph Johnson, who is the curator and caretaker of the impressive Monmouth Amateur Paleontology Society's (MAPS) collection.  We must extend a special thanks to Ralph for allowing us to photograph some fossils from this mind blowing collection of vertebrate and invertebrate fossils from the NJ/DE/MA area.  Keep an eye out for Campanian and Maastrichtian ammonites, especially heteromorphs!
32. We would like to thank Dan Milam for helping make this project possible.  He's sort of dropped off the radar screen, but we are indebted to him for his initial work on the project and for several key contributions that remain on the site.  Thanks!  Oh!  We can't forget his son Patric Milam, who has a couple really cool finds.
33. Our first contributor was Lee Duchouquette, who owns www.dugitup.com.  He has some of the rarest specimens on the site, including a Cretaceous age fossil pearl and fossil crabs, among his other contributions.
34. We must greatly thank John McNamara with www.paleodirect.com for providing us exceedingly good images of exceedingly high quality and fully prepped specimens.  We don't have all of his contributions on the site yet, so keep checking back from time to time.
35. We want to thank Paul Murphey, formerly collections manager, University of Colorado Museum, for giving us permission to photograph and present material from the museum's collection. He is now curator at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Again, many thanks Paul!!
36. Dale Chadwick has sent us several Pierre Shale fossils, including Inoceramid clams, a limpet (gastropod), and baculites.
37. Lee Becker-Cirelli has a cool collection of New Jersey amber from the now nearly gone Parlin Pit.
38. Keven Bridges supplied us with several nice finds, including an echinoid and a nautiloid.
39. Brent Buemi let us photograph some of his ammonites and shark teeth.
40. Sharon Prachyl was kind enough to let us photograph a bony fish jaw that she and her family found while digging a swimming pool.
41. We have two of Jan and Dean Taylor's spectacular heteromorph ammonites on the site.  These are a complete Worthoceras vermiculus found by Dean, and a complete Allocrioceras annulatum found by Jan.  Many thanks for letting us use the photos.
42. Howie Cohn, with the New Jersey Paleontological Society has kindly allowed us to photograph a slab of Carlile Shale containing several different ammonites, including Prionocyclus wyomingensis, P. novimexicanus, Scaphites warreni, and the clam, Inoceramus perplexus.  Thank you!
43. e want to thank Shari Merritt, an avid fossil collector from Texas, for letting us show off her Duck Creek Limestone ammonites and urchins.
44. Dr. Hannes Löser, whose expertise is on Mesozoic corals, has brought our coral classification up-to-date.  Thank you!
45. We would like to thank Tony Fabian for providing some NJ Cretaceous fossils for photographing.
46. Robert Sheridan provided us with photos of several awesome dinosaur replicas, including a sculpture of a Velociraptor.  Many thanks Bob!
47. Rick Fulton has a few contributions on the site as well.  Check out the ammonites section for his stuff.
48. George Klein has contributed a new crab to the lineup.  Thanks!
49. Bill and Claudia Coleman with MegMawl.com are collectors of Tertiary shark teeth and related vertebrates.  They have provided some photos for the Non-Cretaceous section.  Thanks!
50. We would like to thank Ron Brister (Curator) and Lynn Harrell, Jr. with the Memphis Pink Palace Museum for allowing us to show some crustacean, turtle, and mosasaur material from the TN and MS area.
51. We want to thank Joachim Ladwig for helping us translate some of the German titles that appear in our Library Section.
52. Ken Harber recently sent us a photo of a two inch mosasaur tooth!
53. We would like to thank Emmanuel Pénagé who collects French Barremian ammonites.  There are little to no exposures of Barremian age rocks in the continental United States, so it's cool to see what was living during the very early Cretaceous.
54. We have a couple of new Austin Chalk collectors, Julie Nichols and Derin DuVal.  Thanks!
55. We would like to thank Wade Crenshaw for providing some additional Heteraster texanus occurrences for the echinoids section.
56. We appreciate the contributions of Farley P., Farley T., and Zander Katz.  Keep sending photos!.
57. Or Eliason has given us some additional information on the occurrence of Trachyscaphites spiniger porchi.  Many thanks!
58. We would like to thank Michael Yuro with www.njfossilman.com for sending us a group photo of oral teeth of the sawfish Ischyrhiza mira.
59. We have a couple of gastropods collected by Linda Hanrahan on the site.
60. Special thanks goes to the late Professor Emeritus Keith Young at the University of Texas at Austin for identifying a  great majority of the ammonites that we have on the site.  His passing in 2004 was a great loss to science.

We must also thank the following people for their help in obtaining identification guides, publications, professional papers, and bulletins:

• Jennifer Blumenthal, Assistant Librarian, Schering-Plough Research Institute
• Monica McKenzie, Manager-Technical Services, Library Information Center, Schering-Plough Research Institute.
• Eileen Kennedy, Senior Information Scientist, Schering-Plough Research Institute
• Jennifer, Eileen, and Monica have been an instrumental part in our research, as the process of hunting down these references in many cases has been difficult.  Amazingly, a significant portion of the seminal research on the North American Cretaceous predates 1900!  Yes!  Geology was alive and well in the U.S. in the mid-1800's.  It must have been exciting to be a pioneer in the untamed west.