Plioplatecarpus depressus (Cope, 1869)

Remarks

• Collector:    Rick Fulton
• Formation:  Monmouth Group, either Navesink or Mount Laurel Formation (collected from float)
• Location:     Monmouth County, New Jersey

General Info

Synonyms (general list of reports)

• 1869 Mosasaurus depressus Cope
• 1869 Mosasaurus copeanus Marsh
• 1869 Halisaurus fraternus Marsh
• 1870 ?Liodon laticaudus Marsh
• 1967 Plioplatecarpus depressus (Cope); Russell

Stratigraphic Occurrence

• Monmouth Group, Navesink Formation of New Jersey

Age

• Plioplatecarpus depressus (Cope) is Maastrichtian in age (~69–65 mya).

Geographic Occurrence (not an all-inclusive list)

• Burlington County, NJ
• Monmouth County, NJ

Remarks

For description see Russell, 1967.  We also included Holmes' paper on a Bearpaw species (good figures!):

• Holmes, R.  1996.  Plioplatecarpus primaevus (Mosasauridae) from the Bearpaw Formation (Campanian, Upper Cretaceous) of the North American Western Interior Seaway.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (4), 673–687.

• Russell, D. A.  1967.  Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs.  Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Bulletin 23, 160–162.