Cretodus borodini (Cappetta and Case, 1975)

Remarks

• Collector:     Keith Minor
• Formation:   Monmouth Group, Mount Laurel Formation
• Location:      Monmouth County, New Jersey

General Info

Synonyms (older names and misidentifications in the literature)

• Mackerel Shark
• 1975 Plicatolamna borodini Cappetta and Case
• 1983 Plicatolamna borodini Cappetta and Case; Lauginiger and Hartstein
• 1994 Cretodus borodini (Cappetta and Case); Kent

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Matawan Group, Merchantville Formation of New Jersey and Delaware
• Monmouth Group, Mount Laurel Formation of New Jersey
• Monmouth Group, Severn Formation of Maryland

Age

• Cretodus borodini (Cappetta and Case) is a small Cretodus that occurs from the Menabites (Delawarella) sabinalensis (Young) zone to about the Coahuilites sheltoni Böse zone, upper Lower Campanian to middle Maastrichtian Stage (~82-70 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Maryland (county ?)
• Monmouth County, NJ

Remarks

        For identification and descriptions, see:

• Cappetta, H.  1987.  Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 3B:  Chondrichthyes II.  Mesozoic and Cenozoic Elasmobranchii.  New York:  Gustav Fischer Verlag.
• Cappetta, H.; Case, G. R.  1975.  Contribution a l'Étude des Sélachiens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey.  Palaeontographica (A) 151 (1-3), 1-46.