Anomaeodus (Pycnodus) phaseolus (Hay, 1899)

Remarks

• Isolated teeth:   Keith Minor
• Formation:        Matawan Group, Wenonah Formation
• Location:           Monmouth County, New Jersey.

• Tooth Plates:   Memphis Pink Palace Museum (photos by  Lynn Harrell, Jr.)
• Formation:       Ripley Formation, Coon Creek Tongue
• Location:          Decatur County, Tennessee.

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications)

• 1873 Pycnodus faba Leidy

• 1875 Pycnodus faba Leidy; Cope

• 1899 Pycnodus phaeolus Hay

• 1911 Pycnodus phaeolus Hay; Fowler

• 1967 Anomoeodus (Pycnodus) phaseolus (Hay); Case

• 1992 Anomaeodus (Pycnodus) phaseolus (Hay); Case

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Ripley Formation, Coon Creek Tongue of Tennessee and Mississippi

• Monmouth Group, Navesink Formation of New Jersey

• Matawan Group, Wenonah Formation of New Jersey

Age

• Anomaeodus (Pycnodus) phaseolus (Hay) ranges from late Campanian time to earliest Maastrichtian time (~74–71 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Alcorn County, MS

• Burlington County, NJ

• Decatur County, TN

• Middlesex County, NJ

• Monmouth County, NJ

Remarks

       For identification and descriptions, see:

• Case, R. G.  1967.  Fossil Shark and Fish Remains of North America.  New York:  Grafco Press.

• Fowler, H. W.  1911.  A Description of the Fossil Fish Remains of the Cretaceous, Eocene, and Miocene Formations of New Jersey.  Geological Survey of New Jersey Bullein 4.