Part II - State of New Jersey

110 CRETACEOIIS FOSSILSbIonnlonth group. The former of these formations has yiel(led representativesat or near (1) Hillsboro, Somerset County1; (2) "Atl;~nt,icHighlands, in the bluff along the shore of Raritan Bay, east of the railroadstation," Long Branch, and Marlboro, all three in 1\IonmouthCounty; (3) some unspecified locality in IZonmouth or BurlingtonCounty, the holotype, which according to \Vhitfield came from illonmouthCounty hut which is labeled as lieing from Burlington Count,y;(4) Burlington, Evansville, Nt. Laurel, and an outcrop "about 1%milesnorthwest of Jacobstolvn, and ahout 1% miles southwest of Ameytown,"all four in Burlington County; (5) illercha~~trille, CamdenCounty; and (6) Glassboro, Afulliea Hill, and "Squankum," all presumablyin Gloueester County, though the last nlay refer to LowerSquankum, in illonmoi~th County. \Ve have not had available for studyany representatives of this species from t,he Redbal~l~ sand, but TVellerrecords it from the "black, clayey" portion of this formation alongthe Shremsbury liirer, about one and/or two miles from the railroadstation at Red Bank, >Ionmouth County.Both IVhitfield and TVeller have fignred as a representative of thisspecies a unique specimen from the ea1.l~. Tertiary Iiorncrstomn marlnear Tinton Falls, Monmouth County? New Jersey. \tTe have not beenable to locate arid restudy it but are inclined to share t,he now generallyaceeptecl opinion that it is most probahly not refera1)le to the speciesunder consideration.In Maryland (and presmnably also in I)~!la\\~;lre) E. rlelio!li is knownfrom the illonmouth group. North Carolina specimens are stated byGardner to be from the "extreme top" of t,he Ezog,?/m costata zone inthe "Ripley" or Peedee formation, and some from Tennessee are fromthe Coon Creek tongue of the Ripley. In the eastern Gnlf Coastal regionthis species also occurs in the Ezogyrcr costata zone; it was recordedas early as 1834 from Pr;~irie Bluff', Alabama; and in ilfississippiit is locally abundant in the formation named for that localityand may occur as low as the Selma chalk. Stephenson inilieates that,in Texas it has been found at many localities in the lorrer portions ofthe Navarro group, that is, in the Neylanclville marl, the Nacatoeh sand,and the Corsieana 111a1.l. Reesi(1c records forms that Tvc regard as conspecificfrom the uppermost part of the JIancos shale and the b;~salMesaverde formation in the upper Rio Grande region of Xe\\, Mexico:and from the former of these llorizons in east-central litah. In tl~cWestern Interior of the United States, the Cody shale, the Steele shale,the Telegraph Creek formation, the Eagle sandstone, and especiallythe Pierre shalc have yielded many n-ell preserved specimens tllat weare placing in this speeics. Furthermore, long ago (1859) Meelr illustrateda typical specimen from the Upper Cretaceous at somt: unspeeifiedlocality along the "Sooth Branch of the Saskatehe\~~an," in A1-berta or Saskatehewar~.'Since there are no Cretaceous strata in Somerset County, the locality ir probably Hillsdale.Monmouth County, where the Red Bank formation occurs. M. E. Johnson.NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY