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Vertebrates: Turtles: Turtle Plastron 1 |
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Written by Keith Minor
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Toxochelyid Turtle Plastron (Genus sp.?) 
Remarks - Collector: Keith Minor
- Formation: Monmouth Group, New Egypt Formation (contact with Hornerstown Formation)
- Location: Gloucester County, New Jersey
General Info Stratigraphic Occurrence - Upper Monmouth Group, top of the Navesink Formation of New Jersey
Age of the piece of shell - The contact between the Navesink and Hornerstown Marls has been postulated to be at or near the K–T Boundary (latest Maastrichtian, 65 mya (?)), and is also locally known as the main fossiliferous layer (MFL).
Geographic Occurrence (by no means an all-inclusive list)
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 30 July 2008 )
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