| Farmington |
Atlantic |
NJ |
|
Eocene |
|
Shark Teeth — Lamna |
NJ0001 |
|
|
| Glen Rock |
Bergen |
NJ |
|
Triassic |
Brunswick |
Hypsognathus |
NJ0002 |
|
|
| Granton Quarry |
Bergen |
NJ |
|
Triassic |
Newark |
Fish fossils,Reptile fossils-Eupelor,Hypuronector,Icarosaurus,Rutiodon;ichnofossils-Coelurosaurichnus,Grallator |
NJ0003 |
|
|
| Hackensack |
Bergen |
NJ |
near Polify Rd |
|
|
mastodon teeth |
NJ0004 |
|
|
| North Bergen |
Bergen |
NJ |
At Granton Quarry |
Triassic |
Lockatong |
fish-Diplurus,Synorichthys,Turseodus? |
NJ0005 |
|
|
| Northvale |
Bergen |
NJ |
along RR tracks through town |
|
|
leaves,fish,shells,crinoids |
NJ0006 |
|
|
| Birmingham |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
|
|
pelecypod Agerostrea |
NJ0007 |
|
|
| Birmingham |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-turtle-Zygoramma;Crocodile-Thoracosaurus |
NJ0008 |
|
|
| Birmingham |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
turtles-Taphrosphys;fish-Ischyodus,sharks |
NJ0009 |
Original indicates ‘Neoselachian’ which is not a genus,but rather a high level grouping that includes most Cretaceous sharks |
|
| Crosswicks |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Pycnodus |
NJ0010 |
Can’t find any citations for a Green Malls formation (Green Marls?) |
|
| Ellisdale |
Burlington |
NJ |
in bed of Crosswicks Creek |
Cretaceous |
|
numerous vertebrate bone fragments-turtles,crocodiles,dinosaurs,etc.–Dryptosaurus,Hadrosaurus,Hypsibema |
NJ0011 |
|
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/696web/dinosaur.html |
| Farmingdale? |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
turtles-Lembonax |
NJ0012 |
|
|
| Lumberton |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Turtle fragments Prionochelys. Mosasaur fragments,Halisaurus |
NJ0013 |
|
|
| Lumberton |
Burlington |
NJ |
In sand pit exposure |
Eocene? |
|
Shark Teeth,bones,coral,invertebrates |
NJ0014 |
|
|
| Medford |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Edaphodon,Istiophorus;turtles-Taphrosphys |
NJ0015 |
|
|
| Medford |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
turtles-Adocus |
NJ0016 |
|
|
| Mount Holly |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Enchodus |
NJ0017 |
|
|
| Pemberton |
Burlington |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-sharks;turtles-Lytoloma |
NJ0018 |
|
|
| Rancocas Creek Valley |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous Upper |
Rancocas |
Lingulina,Pentacrinus,Goniaster,Cidaris,Salenia,Pseudodiadema,Coptosoma,Terebratula,Gryphaea,Flabellina,Polymorphina,Trematopygus,Catopygus,Hemiaster,Teredo,Nautilus,Ammonites |
NJ0019 |
Flabellina is a nudibranch. How could it be recognized as a fossil?’ |
|
| Vincentown |
Burlington |
NJ |
|
|
|
Cephalopods; Rotularia; Bryozoa Coscinopleura |
NJ0020 |
|
|
| Vincentown |
Burlington |
NJ |
At Alloway Pit (overgrown irrigation pond excavation) E of Newbold Corner Rd. Close to Nike missile towers |
Paleocene |
Vincentown |
shark teeth,coral,bones |
NJ0021 |
|
|
| Vincentown |
Burlington |
NJ |
On N branch of Rancocas Creek |
Paleocene |
Vincentown |
? |
NJ0022 |
|
|
| Willingboro? |
Burlington |
NJ |
Around Graham’s Brickyard near junction of NJ38 and NJ73 |
Cretaceous |
|
shells |
NJ0023 |
|
|
| Blackwood |
Camden |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
|
Shark teeth -Cretolamna,Scapanorhynchus,Squalicorax (several species),coprolites. Ischyodus,fish – Pycnodus,Enchodus,trigonodonts (Stephanodus). Mosasaurs |
NJ0024 |
|
|
| Camden |
Camden |
NJ |
Site of Hadrosaurus discovery |
Cretaceous |
|
Abundant,but poorly preserved fossils: |
NJ0025 |
|
|
| Haddonfield |
Camden |
NJ |
Cooper River tributary near junction of Maple and Grove Streets |
Cretaceous |
Woodbury |
Turtle-Dollochelys |
NJ0224 |
|
|
| Haddonfield |
Camden |
NJ |
Cretaceous Upper Marine mollusks from the Woodbury Formation are reportedly found in a small gully near the corner of Maple Ave and Grove St in Haddonfield. |
Cretaceous |
|
? |
NJ0027 |
|
|
| Haddonfield |
Camden |
NJ |
The first dinosaur found in North America from a gully in Haddonfield,New Jersey |
Cretaceous |
Potomac |
dinosaur bones |
NJ0028 |
|
|
| Pennsauken |
Camden |
NJ |
|
Pleistocene |
Fish House |
fossils |
NJ0029 |
|
|
| Stratford |
Camden |
NJ |
On tributary of Big Timber Creek |
|
|
Shark Teeth – Otodus |
NJ0030 |
|
|
| Cape May Point |
Cape May |
NJ |
At the state beach |
|
|
Paleozoic fossils washed up by tide |
NJ0031 |
|
|
| Higbee |
Cape May |
NJ |
|
|
|
Paleozoic fossils washed up by tide |
NJ0032 |
|
|
| Reeds Beach |
Cape May |
NJ |
|
|
|
Paleozoic fossils washed up by tide |
NJ0033 |
|
|
| Fairton |
Cumberland |
NJ |
In quartzite boulders dredged from stream through town |
Miocene-Pliocene |
Cohansey? |
silicified bivalves and gastropods |
NJ0034 |
|
|
| Shiloh |
Cumberland |
NJ |
Shiloh marl pit |
Miocene |
Kirkland |
Turtle-Procolpochelys |
NJ0035 |
|
|
| Morristown |
Essex |
NJ |
At soccer field |
Triassic |
Newark |
Dinosaur Tracks |
NJ0036 |
|
|
| Riker Hill |
Essex |
NJ |
In Rosedale,NJ. Exit 4a I280W S on Eisenhower Parkway. 1.7km. Left on Beaufort Ave. 600m to park entrance. Collecting permits sometimes available from County Park Service |
|
|
dinosaur tracks |
NJ0037 |
|
|
| Rikers Hill |
Essex |
NJ |
|
Triassic |
Newark |
Fish fossils |
NJ0038 |
|
|
| Roseland |
Essex |
NJ |
|
Jurassic |
Towaco Sandstone |
dinosaur tracks – Anomoepus |
NJ0039 |
|
|
| Barnsboro |
Gloucester |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-Turtles-Bothremys;Crocodile-Holops |
NJ0040 |
|
|
| Barnsboro |
Gloucester |
NJ |
3.2km S |
Cretaceous |
New Egypt |
dinosaur claw-Dryptosaurus |
NJ0041 |
|
|
| Barnsboro |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Area exposures including W Jersey Marl Co in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
turtles-Adocus,Osteopygis,Taphrosphys;fish-Edaphodon,Ischyodus,Leptomylus,Squalicorax |
NJ0042 |
original says ‘Barnesboro’ which seems to be an old spelling |
|
| Harrisonville |
Gloucester |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Timber Creek Limestone |
Turtle-Lytoloma |
NJ0043 |
|
|
| Hurffville |
Gloucester |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Ischyodus |
NJ0044 |
|
|
| Jericho |
Gloucester |
NJ |
In old overgrown marl pits about 2km N of Jericho |
Miocene |
Kirkwood |
Eucrassatella,Melina,Plicatula |
NJ0045 |
|
|
| Mantua |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Jackson Road adjacent to Jackson Road at Mantua-Harrison Township lines in Gloucester County. in |
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Plesiosaur bone fragments |
NJ0046 |
|
|
| Mullica Hill |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Fossil material reported found in 2003 or so in a working pit |
Cretaceous? |
|
bone fragments,mollusks,petrified wood |
NJ0047 |
|
|
| Mullica Hill |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Fossiliferous Cretaceous Upper Mount Laurel and Navesink beds are reportedly exposed at Mullica Hill on the South side of US322 at the NJ45 Junction. |
Cretaceous |
Navesink|Mount Laurel |
Cretolamna |
NJ0048 |
|
|
| Mullica Hill |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Shell bed. |
Pleistocene |
|
? |
NJ0049 |
|
|
| Mullica Hill |
Gloucester |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Cretolamna,Enchodus?,Neoselachian |
NJ0050 |
|
|
| Oldman’s Creek |
Gloucester |
NJ |
In exposures along valley of the creek |
Cretaceous |
Marshalltown |
Worms-Serpula;Gastropods-Turritella,Gyrodes,Anchura,Lunatia,Pyropsis;Ammonites-Menuites,Placenticeras;Bivalves-Nucula,Cucullaea,Nemodon,Gryphaeostrea,Exogyra,Vulsella,Crassostrea,Agerostrea,Neithea,Trigonia,Veniella,Trachycardium,Crassatella,Umbonicardium |
NJ0051 |
|
|
| Pitman |
Gloucester |
NJ |
at junction of Main and Broadway. Ceres/Mantua Park next of Pitman Golf Course in banks of Chestnut Branch |
|
|
Petrified Wood,shells |
NJ0052 |
|
|
| Sewell |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Inversand Marl Pits in |
Cretaceous |
New Egypt |
Turtles-Peritresius;Mosasaurus |
NJ0053 |
|
|
| Sewell |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Inversand marl quarry |
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
Edaphodon |
NJ0054 |
|
|
| Sewell |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Inversand marl quarry |
Paleocene |
|
sponges |
NJ0055 |
|
|
| Sewell |
Gloucester |
NJ |
Inversand pit |
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-Turtles-Peritresius |
NJ0056 |
|
|
| Harrisonville |
Gloucester? |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish-Ischyrhiza,Pristis |
NJ0057 |
There is a second Harrisonville in Salem Cy |
|
| North Bergen |
Hudson |
NJ |
At Granton quarry |
Triassic |
Stockton |
reptile bones:Hypuronector,Tanytrachelos;fish-Diplurus,Turseodus |
NJ0058 |
|
|
| North Bergen |
Hudson |
NJ |
Granton Quarry In Triassic fresh water deposits |
Triassic |
|
Branchiopods,Cyzicus,Fish -Diplurus,Turseodus,Reptiles – Tanytrachelos,Icarosaurus |
NJ0059 |
|
|
| Passaic |
Hudson |
NJ |
in back of incinerator at 555 Paulson Avenue |
Triassic |
Lockatong |
Hypsognathus? |
NJ0060 |
|
|
| Weehawken |
Hudson |
NJ |
|
|
|
Branchiopods Cyzicus |
NJ0061 |
|
|
| Frenchtown |
Hunterdon |
NJ |
On Creek Rd accessible from NJ12E East of NJ29 on W bank of Nishisackawick Creek |
Triassic |
Newark |
footprints,bivalves,ostracods,fish,plants |
NJ0062 |
|
|
| Jutland |
Hunterdon |
NJ |
There are several outcrops in the area. One is at the Clinton,Block and Supply Co Quarry |
Ordovician |
|
graptolites-Isograptus,Didymograptus,Pseudotrigonograptus,Tetragraptus,Xiphograptus,Pseudisograptus,Cryptograptus,Climacograptus,Glyptograptus,Pseudoclimacograptus,Hallograptus,Dicellograptus,Nemagraptus?,Glossograptus |
NJ0063 |
|
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/paleontology/pub/grd3_3/ |
| Milford |
Hunterdon |
NJ |
At Clark blue stone quarry |
Triassic |
Brunswick |
footprints – Apatopus,Chirotherium,Grallator |
NJ0064 |
|
|
| Stockton |
Hunterdon |
NJ |
In quarry E of NJ29 500m N of NJ519 |
Triassic |
Newark |
footprints-Grallator,reptile bones,scutes,phytosaur teeth |
NJ0065 |
|
|
| Carnegie Lake |
Mercer |
NJ |
On W side of lake |
Triassic |
Stockton |
reptile footprints |
NJ0066 |
|
|
| Princeton |
Mercer |
NJ |
In basement excavations at Princeton University |
Triassic |
|
Fish,Diplurus,Crustacea -Cyzicus{4} |
NJ0067 |
|
|
| Princeton |
Mercer |
NJ |
On the campus of Princeton University,fish and crustacea have been found in basement excavations. |
Triassic-Jurassic |
Newark |
fish |
NJ0068 |
|
|
| Princeton University |
Mercer |
NJ |
Firestone Library excavation |
Triassic |
Lockatong |
dinosaur teeth-Rutiodon;fish-Diplurus |
NJ0069 |
|
|
| Sayreville |
Middlesex |
NJ |
Amber pit — digging not allowed in reclaimed area |
Cretaceous |
|
amber |
NJ0070 |
|
|
| Sayreville |
Middlesex |
NJ |
In amber found in clay pits in |
Cretaceous |
Raritan |
insects in amber. |
NJ0071 |
|
|
| Sayreville |
Middlesex |
NJ |
In clay at Sayre and Fisher’s banks |
|
|
Ambonicardia,Gnathodon |
NJ0072 |
|
|
| Washington |
Middlesex |
NJ |
In ash colored clays in area quarries |
|
|
Astarte |
NJ0073 |
|
|
| Woodbridge |
Middlesex |
NJ |
area clay banks |
Cretaceous Lower |
|
Corbicula |
NJ0074 |
|
|
| – |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Red Bank |
Crocodile-Gavialis |
NJ0159 |
|
|
| – |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In stream beds in Monmouth County,New Jersey in Monmouth Formation greensands. Poricy Brook,Hop Brook(Colts Neck),Holmdel Creek |
Cretaceous |
|
worm tubes,Ray Teeth – Brachyrhizodus — Chimeras — Ischyodus Fish Teeth -Enchodus,Stephanodus Arthropods Callianassa |
NJ0160 |
|
|
| – |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Manasquan River Downstream of the Conrail RR bridge |
Miocene |
Kirkwood |
fossils in cliffside exposure |
NJ0161 |
|
|
| – |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Manasquan Creek at the Georgia Road Bridge |
Cretaceous |
Tinton |
Typical fossils |
NJ0162 |
|
|
| Allentown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
|
|
Bryozoa Cliona |
NJ0075 |
|
|
| Arneytown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Crosswicks Creek at mouth of Shingles Run. Upstream from Mt Holly-Freehold Rd at fishing access |
Eocene |
New Egypt|Hornerstown |
abundant brachiopods-Oleneothyris,Oysters-Pycnodonte,and few other taxa. Small invertebrates of various sorts in sands above the Cretaceous glauconite |
NJ0076 |
|
|
| Arneytown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
on sandbars in Crosswicks Creek. Downstream from Mt Holly-Freehold Rd at fishing access |
Cretaceous |
New Egypt|Hornerstown |
small shark teeth |
NJ0077 |
|
|
| Atlantic Highlands |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Sponges. |
NJ0078 |
|
|
| Atlantic Highlands |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
sponges. |
NJ0079 |
|
|
| Atlantic Highlands |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Invertebrates Shark teeth,Scapanorhynchus etc in bluffs along Sandy Hook Bay |
Cretaceous |
|
shark teeth |
NJ0080 |
|
|
| Atlantic Highlands |
Monmouth |
NJ |
a fairly long walk from nearest parking and largely overgrown. Accessible with permission from the marina. About 400m to cliffs |
Cretaceous |
|
Ammonites etc |
NJ0081 |
|
|
| Beer’s Hill |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Tinton |
Invertebrates and crab claws in indurated rock |
NJ0082 |
|
|
| Big Branch |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Turtles |
NJ0083 |
Big Brook? |
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Fish teeth-Brachyrhizodus,Cretolamna,Enchodus,Hybodus,Ischyodus,Ischyrhiza,Megalocoelacanthus,Myledaphus,Paranomotodon,Plicatolamna,Scapanorhynchus,Sclerorhynchus,Squalicorax |
NJ0084 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Wenonah |
Fish-Enchodus |
NJ0085 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
1.6km N of Boundary Rd on S side of stream 40d19mN 74d13mW |
Cretaceous |
Wenonah |
Fish-Brachyrhizodus,Scapanorhynchus,Squalicorax |
NJ0087 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Marlboro and Colts Neck Townships |
Pleistocene |
|
shark teeth Squalicorax,Ischyrhiza,Coprolites,Pycnodont fish jaws plates – Anomaeodus,Dinosaur bones – Hadrosaurs,Pleistocene Beaver teeth -Castoroides. Sharks -Cretolamna,Scapanorhynchus,Squalicorax. Brachiopod Choristothyris. Belemnitella,Oyster |
NJ0088 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
accessed from Boundary Rd exposures in creek banks and sandbanks |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth. Shells |
NJ0089 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
accessed from Hillsdale Rd exposures in creek banks and sandbanks downstream |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth. Shells |
NJ0090 |
|
|
| Big Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
accessed from the bridge on Monmouth Road in Marlboro |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth. Shells |
NJ0091 |
|
|
| Big Brook (Marlboro Township) |
Monmouth |
NJ |
and Colts Neck as well |
Cretaceous |
|
shark teeth Squalicorax,Ischyrhiza,Coprolites,Pycnodont fish jaws plates – Anomaeodus,Dinosaur bones -Hadrosaurs,Pleistocene Beaver teeth – Castoroides. Sharks Cretolamna,Scapanorhynchus,Squalicorax. Brachiopod Choristothyris,Belemnitella,Oyster |
NJ0092 |
|
|
| Big Brook(Marlboro Township) |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Pleistocene |
|
Megalonyx (sloth) |
NJ0086 |
|
|
| Big Brook(Marlboro Township) |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Exposures of Cretaceous beds |
Cretaceous |
Wenonah|Navesink |
Fossils include shark + ray fauna,chimera,belemnites,crabs,shells. |
NJ0093 |
|
|
| Cliffwood |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in area exposures in nodules |
|
|
? |
NJ0094 |
|
|
| Cliffwood |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in pit of Geldhaus[?] brick Co 2 km W of Cliffwood Point in nodules |
|
|
? |
NJ0095 |
|
|
| Cliffwood |
Monmouth |
NJ |
on Whale Creek 2.5 km from Cliffwood Point in pit of Cliffwood Brick Co in nodules |
|
|
Breviarca,Trigonarca,Nuculana,Yoldia,Cardium,Isocardia,Veleda,Corbula,Pyrifusus,Volutomorpha,Cyrodes[?],Scalaria,Turritella |
NJ0096 |
No citations for genus ‘Cyrodes’,,, |
|
| Cliffwood Beach |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Along sea cliffs (but it was reported in the 1970s that the state and property owners have graded and seawalled the cliffs to prevent erosion) |
Cretaceous |
|
fossils |
NJ0097 |
|
|
| Cliffwood Beach |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Fossil ants in amber. |
|
|
? |
NJ0098 |
|
|
| Cliffwood Point |
Monmouth |
NJ |
on S side in concretions in cliffside clays |
Cretaceous |
|
Ostrea,Anomia,Amusium,Mytilus,Modiola,Pteria,Inoceramus,Nucula,Lucina,Cardium,Isocardia,Dosinia,Tellina,Veleda,Corbula,Pyropsis,Pyrifusus,Volutimorpha,Scarlaria,Turritella,Placenticeras,Baculites,Tetacarcinus{4} |
NJ0099 |
|
|
| Colts Neck |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In town park in Big Brook — Sieving fossils allowed,no digging |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth,etc |
NJ0100 |
|
|
| Colts Neck |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Willow Brook — Case Site 1 – Schatzel Property |
Cretaceous |
Mount Laurel |
Shark Teeth-Brachyrhizodus,Enchodus,Hybodus,Hypotodus,Ischyrhiza,Lonchidion,Odontapsis,Parabula,Plicatolamna,Protosphyraena,Ptychotrygon,Rhinobatus,Rhombodus,Squalicorax,Squatina,Stephanodus |
NJ0101 |
|
|
| Cream Ridge |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Paleocene |
Hornerstown |
corals |
NJ0102 |
|
|
| Cream Ridge |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Near jct of NJ537 NJ539 on Young property |
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-Turtle |
NJ0103 |
|
|
| Farmingdale |
Monmouth |
NJ |
area excavations |
Eocene |
Manasquan greensand |
brachiopods,mollusks,gastropods{4) |
NJ0104 |
|
|
| Freehold |
Monmouth |
NJ |
9.6km NW |
Cretaceous |
Mount Laurel |
turtle bones |
NJ0105 |
|
|
| Freehold |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
reptiles-Squamata,Mosasaurus |
NJ0106 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
sponges Crustacea – Hoploparia,Protocallianassa,Pycnodont fish jaws plates – Anomaeodus |
NJ0107 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Big Brook in area defined by US79, NJ520 and NJ4 (Vanderburg Road) Boundary Rd (NJ4A) transects area crossing Big Brook N of Vanderburg Rd (Note – a collector was buried by a landslide in the cliff here. Fortunately,he was with friends). |
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Mosasaur fragments – Mosasaurus |
NJ0108 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Ramanessin Brook upstream accessible from Holmdel Park |
|
|
Shark teeth |
NJ0109 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Ramanessin Brook upstream accessible via a trail across from Holmdel High School at Middletown Road and Main St,Ramanessin Brook is the second bridge on the path |
|
|
Shark teeth |
NJ0110 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Ramanessin Brook upstream from Roberts Rd — limited parking |
Cretaceous |
Mount Laurel |
? |
NJ0111 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Ramanessin Brook upstream from intersection of E. Main/ Newman Springs Rd and Middletown Rd |
Cretaceous? |
|
? |
NJ0112 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Ramanessin Brook |
Cretaceous |
|
shark teeth – Scapanorhynchus,Squalicorax,Odontapsis,Brachyrhizodus,Cretolamna,Plicatolamna,Plesiosaur fragments – Cimoliasaurus |
NJ0113 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Tributary Brook fish mouth plates |
Cretaceous |
|
Parabula |
NJ0114 |
|
|
| Holmdel |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in Hop Brook on Harding Farm |
Cretaceous |
Mount Laurel |
Shark Teeth-Cretolamna,Ischyrhiza,Plicatolamna,Ptychotrygon,Rhinobatus,Squalicorax |
NJ0115 |
|
|
| Holmdel? |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On tributary accessible from soccer field near Boundary Road |
Cretaceous |
|
Typical fossils |
NJ0116 |
|
|
| Hop Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
fish teeth-Hybodus,Ischyodus |
NJ0117 |
|
|
| Hop Brook(Marlboro Township) |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Exposures of Cretaceous beds |
Cretaceous |
Wenonah|Navesink |
Fossils include shark + ray fauna,chimera,belemnites,crabs,shells. |
NJ0118 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
sponges – Cliona,mollusks – Crassatella,Cucullaea (Internal molds),mollusks – Gryphaea,Turritella |
NJ0119 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Paleocene |
Hornerstown |
corals |
NJ0120 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
At Brewer’s ditch |
|
|
Cephalopods,Belemnitella |
NJ0121 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
At type locality – Hornerstown Pit |
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-turtle;Crocodile-Hyposaurus |
NJ0122 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Cretaceous brachiopods in Crosswicks Creek |
Cretaceous |
|
Brachiopods – Choristothyris,mollusks – Cucullaea,Inoceramus,Exogyra,Dianchora,Ostrea,Pecten,Spondylus,Pycnodonte,Lunatia,Turritella Cephalopods -Belemnites |
NJ0123 |
|
|
| Hornerstown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
turtles-Osteopygis |
NJ0124 |
|
|
| Hornerstown? |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Cretaceous |
|
fish,Cretolamna,Diphrissa,Edaphodon,Ischyrhiza,Ischyodus,Isotaenia,Istiophorus,Lamna,Leptomylus,Sphagepoea |
NJ0125 |
May be from Birmingham,NJ |
|
| Howell |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Small (10 meters) streambank exposure in downtown Howell as well as gravel bars downstream |
Eocene |
Manasquan |
Shark teeth,coral-Flabellum,mollusks |
NJ0126 |
|
|
| Malboro |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In sand pits |
Cretaceous Lower |
greensand |
Pecten(4) |
NJ0127 |
|
|
| Manasquan River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
At Foreman’s Pit |
Eocene |
|
fish teeth-Sphyraena |
NJ0128 |
|
|
| Manasquan River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
along the River between West Farms Rd and Preventorium Rd. Older outcrops to the West |
Eocene |
Vincentown|Manasquan |
miscellaneous fossils |
NJ0129 |
|
|
| Marlboro |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Crustacea – Hoploparia |
NJ0130 |
|
|
| Marlboro |
Monmouth |
NJ |
At Schenk Farm |
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
dinosaur bones |
NJ0131 |
|
|
| Marlboro |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On South River |
Cretaceous |
Englishtown |
fossils |
NJ0132 |
|
|
| Matawan |
Monmouth |
NJ |
E of Garden State Parkway along Poricy Brook from Middletown Rd to Shadow Lake |
Cretaceous |
|
shells |
NJ0133 |
|
|
| Matawan |
Monmouth |
NJ |
N along W bank of Matawan Creek in |
Cretaceous |
Merchantville |
Belemnitella,Choristothyris,Exogyra |
NJ0134 |
|
|
| Matawan Creek |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Matawan |
Ostrea,Gryphaea,Exogyra,Anomia,Camptonectes,Spondylus,Plicatula,Dianchora,Gervilliopsis,Inoceramus,Pinna,Arca,Nucula,Trigonia,Crassatella,Lucina,Cardium,Linearia,Panopaea.{4} |
NJ0135 |
|
|
| Medford |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Turtles-Agomphus |
NJ0136 |
|
|
| Middletown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In Poricy Brook at base of hill on Middletown-Lincroft Road (Church Street) near Jr High |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth |
NJ0137 |
|
|
| Middletown Mall |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On Rt-33 |
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
fish teeth-Hybodus |
NJ0138 |
|
|
| Monmouth Beach |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-Turtle |
NJ0139 |
|
|
| Neptune |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Eocene |
Shark River |
fish teeth-Xenodolamia |
NJ0140 |
|
|
| Neptune |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Shark River Park,in stream gravels at Shark River Park near Asbury Park |
Miocene |
Kirkwood |
Odontapsis |
NJ0141 |
|
|
| Poricy Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
|
Mollusks Ostrea |
NJ0142 |
|
|
| Poricy Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
at Poricy Brook Country Park |
Cretaceous |
|
Shark Teeth |
NJ0143 |
|
|
| Ramanessin Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Navesink |
Turtles |
NJ0144 |
|
|
| Ramanessin Brook |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous |
Wenonah |
Turtle fragments |
NJ0145 |
|
|
| Ramanessin Brook(Marlboro Township) |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Exposures of Cretaceous beds |
Cretaceous |
Wenonah|Navesink |
Fossils include shark + ray fauna,chimera,belemnites,crabs,shells. |
NJ0146 |
|
|
| Sea Girt Beach |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
|
|
fossils |
NJ0147 |
|
|
| Shark River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Eocene |
|
shark teeth-Carcharodon,Scapanorhynchus |
NJ0148 |
|
|
| Shark River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In Stream gravels at Shark River County Park |
Miocene-Pliocene |
|
Marine vertebrate fossils — mostly shark teeth |
NJ0149 |
|
See www.njfossils.net |
| Shark River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Shark teeth in river banks and spoil banks |
|
|
shark teeth |
NJ0150 |
|
|
| Shark River |
Monmouth |
NJ |
West of Garden State Parkway on S side of river in a bank exposure reached via a sandy trail and access path beyond the first ravine |
Eocene-Miocene |
Shark River|Kirkwood |
Shark Teeth — some large |
NJ0151 |
Danger of bank collapse,solitary collecting said to be inadvisable |
|
| Shark River Valley |
Monmouth |
NJ |
Upper area in dark green sands |
Cretaceous |
Shark River |
Ostrea,Gryphaea,Pecten,Nucula,Axinea,Fusus,Fasciolaria,Caricella,Voluta,Nautilus,Astarte,Cardita,Protocardium,Veleda,Corbula,Pleurotoma,Conus,Xenophora,Mesalia.{4} |
NJ0152 |
|
|
| Shrewsbury |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Eocene |
|
Ostrea{4} |
NJ0153 |
|
|
| Tinton Falls |
Monmouth |
NJ |
In marl pit |
Cretaceous |
Hornerstown |
vertebrates-Turtles-Adocus,Agomphus,Taphrosphys;Crocodile-Goniopholis |
NJ0154 |
|
|
| Tinton Falls |
Monmouth |
NJ |
NJ18N from Garden State Parkway Exit 105. Exit on Wayside Rd and proceed straight through lights onto Tinton Ave / NJ537. Cross Sycamore Ave/Water Street and park on Rt. near Colt’s Neck line |
Cretaceous |
Tinton |
Invertebrates and crab claws in indurated rock |
NJ0155 |
|
|
| Upper Freehold |
Monmouth |
NJ |
|
Cretaceous Lower |
|
Diploschiza,Paranomia,Spondylus,Radula{4} |
NJ0156 |
|
|
| Vincentown |
Monmouth |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Eocene |
|
fish-Carcharodon,Istiophorus,Lamna,Odontapsis,Scapanorhynchus |
NJ0157 |
|
|
| Wall Township |
Monmouth |
NJ |
On tributary of Shark River just W of Garden State Parkway Turnpike Interchange 100. Park at Shark River County Park on Schoolhouse Rd |
Eocene-Miocene |
Shark River|Kirkwood |
Invertebrates,Shark teeth-Carcharhinus,Cretolamna,Striatolamna,Xiphodolamia,Acipenser,Isurus,Hemipristis,Galeocerdo,Negaprion,Myliobatis |
NJ0158 |
|
|
| Boonton |
Morris |
NJ |
|
Jurassic |
Boonton |
fish-Semionotus |
NJ0163 |
|
|
| Boonton |
Morris |
NJ |
|
Triassic |
Newark |
Fish fossils |
NJ0164 |
|
|
| Boonton |
Morris |
NJ |
Many genera of fish as well as other vertebrates in area quarries. Much or all of this locality was flooded by a reservoir. |
Triassic-Jurassic |
Newark |
? |
NJ0165 |
|
|
| Boonton |
Morris |
NJ |
area exposures |
Triassic |
Newark |
well preserved fish – Protospondyli,Catopterus,Dictyopyge,Paleoniscoids,Diplurus,Ptycholepis{4} |
NJ0166 |
|
|
| Boonton Reservoir |
Morris |
NJ |
In Triassic Sandstone above Hook Mt Basalt,fish |
Triassic |
|
Semionotus |
NJ0167 |
|
|
| Green Pond Mountain |
Morris |
NJ |
|
Cambrian Lower |
|
Olenellus |
NJ0168 |
|
|
| Greenwood Lake |
Morris |
NJ |
W side of lake |
|
|
Zaphrentis,Stropheodonta,Schizophoria,Amphigenia,Spirifer,Cyrtina,Pterinea,Chonetes,Orthothetes,Anoplotheca Amphigenia{4} |
NJ0169 |
|
|
| Newfoundland |
Morris |
NJ |
2 km S of Green Pond Mountain in shaley Limestone along road S of Newfoundland and in fields |
Silurian |
Decker Ferry |
Favosites,Monotrypa,Chonetes,Orthis,Rynchonella,Atrypa,Dalmanites{4} |
NJ0170 |
|
|
| Newfoundland |
Morris |
NJ |
3.5 km N in gray slaty shales |
Silurian |
Monroe |
Fenestella,Chonetes,Rhynchonella,Homalonotus,Tropidoleptus,Actinopteria,Orthothetes,Dalmanites,Phacops {4} |
NJ0171 |
|
|
| Newfoundland |
Morris |
NJ |
300 meters E of Chamberlin’s Hotel |
|
|
Fenestella,Chonetes,Rhynchonella,Homalonotus,Tropidoleptus,Actinopteria,Orthothetes,Dalmanites,Phacops {4} |
NJ0172 |
|
|
| Newfoundland |
Morris |
NJ |
near Passaic County Line in Upper Longwood Quarry |
|
|
Monotrypa,Chonetes,Stropheodonta,Orthis,Rhynchonella,Atrypa{4} |
NJ0173 |
|
|
| Oak Ridge Reservoir |
Morris |
NJ |
on dumps |
|
|
crinoid columnals,Chonetes,Spirifer,Grammysia,Palaeoneilo,Paracyclas,Bellerophon,Strophostylus{4} |
NJ0174 |
|
|
| Petersburg |
Morris |
NJ |
N and SE |
|
|
Fenestella,Chonetes,Rhynchonella,Homalonotus,Tropidoleptus,Actinopteria,Orthothetes,Dalmanites,Phacops {4} |
NJ0175 |
|
|
| Petersburg |
Morris |
NJ |
toward Upper Longwood |
|
|
Fenestella,Chonetes,Rhynchonella,Homalonotus,Tropidoleptus,Actinopteria,Orthothetes,Dalmanites,Phacops {4} |
NJ0176 |
|
|
| Towaco |
Morris |
NJ |
|
Jurassic |
Towaco Sandstone |
dinosaur tracks – Anchisauripus,Grallator |
NJ0177 |
|
|
| West Milford |
Morris |
NJ |
SW on prominent knoll W of road |
|
|
Fenestella,Chonetes,Rhynchonella,Homalonotus,Tropidoleptus,Actinopteria,Orthothetes,Dalmanites,Phacops {4} |
NJ0178 |
|
|
| Crosswicks Creek |
Ocean |
NJ |
W bank in |
Cretaceous |
Navesink Marl |
Belemnitella,Exogyra,Inoceramus,Cucullaea,Lunatia |
NJ0179 |
|
|
| New Egypt |
Ocean |
NJ |
|
|
|
Brachiopods Oleneothyris |
NJ0180 |
|
|
| New Egypt |
Ocean |
NJ |
|
Eocene |
Hornerstown |
brachiopods: Oleneothyris |
NJ0181 |
|
|
| New Egypt |
Ocean |
NJ |
fossils are reported from a small stream north of the New Egypt Railroad Station. |
Paleocene |
Brightseat? |
mollusks,echinoids and brachiopods |
NJ0182 |
|
|
| Little Falls |
Passaic |
NJ |
W of junction of NJ23 and NJ46 along Horsehead Rd N of I80 |
|
|
dinosaur tracks |
NJ0183 |
|
|
| Port Jervis |
Passaic |
NJ |
SE Along Clover Rd near junction with NJ23 |
Silurian |
|
Trilobites |
NJ0184 |
Strictly speaking,Port Jervis is in New York a few km of this locality |
|
| Salem |
Salem |
NJ |
in Marl Pits |
Miocene |
Kirkwood |
A few mollusks are reported |
NJ0185 |
|
|
| Neshanic Station |
Somerset |
NJ |
2km S |
Triassic |
Brunswick |
dinosaur-Stegomus |
NJ0186 |
|
|
| Peapack |
Somerset |
NJ |
On left side of Willow Rd on path behind farm gate and up a dirt road in abandoned quarry |
|
|
Occasional trilobites in limestone |
NJ0187 |
|
|
| Delaware Water Gap |
Sussex |
NJ |
At a water treatment plant — permission required. Might equally well be on the PA side |
Silurian |
|
Eurypterids |
NJ0188 |
|
|
| Delaware Water Gap |
Sussex |
NJ |
Might equally well be on the PA side — within the National Recreation Area — no digging but surface collecting permitted |
Silurian |
|
Fossil fish to 15cm |
NJ0189 |
|
|
| Delaware Water Gap |
Sussex |
NJ |
On old Dutch Mine Rd |
Devonian |
|
arthrodire plates and spines |
NJ0190 |
|
|
| Flatbrookville |
Sussex |
NJ |
|
Devonian |
Coeymans |
fossils |
NJ0191 |
|
|
| Flatbrookville |
Sussex |
NJ |
|
Silurian |
Decker Ferry |
Favosites,Monotrypa,etc Ostracods |
NJ0192 |
|
|
| Hainesville |
Sussex |
NJ |
N |
Devonian |
Coeymans |
corals,brachiopods |
NJ0193 |
|
|
| Hainesville |
Sussex |
NJ |
S in sandstones |
Silurian |
Decker Ferry Limestone |
Monotrypa,Orthoceras,Chonetes,Camarotoechia,Atrypa,Reticularia,Dalmanites |
NJ0194 |
|
|
| Hardiston |
Sussex |
NJ |
In hard bluish calcareous-siliceous material through and S of Franklin Furnace |
Cambrian Lower |
|
abundant Olenellus{4} |
NJ0195 |
|
|
| Montague |
Sussex |
NJ |
11km N of Montague,W of Clove Rd. Along ‘Trilobite Ridge/Trilobite Mountain’– An E-W trending structure S of the Neversink River with several Devonian formations exposed |
Devonian Lower |
Oriskany |
Trilobites-Dalmanites,Bivalves-Actinopteria,Gastropods -Loxonema,Cephalopods- Michelinoceras,Brachiopods- Rensselaeria,Leptostrophia |
NJ0196 |
|
http://www.columbia.edu/dlc/nysmb/mb80/mb80c173/b80p173t.html |
| Montague |
Sussex |
NJ |
Reuben Hill |
Devonian |
Helderberg |
brachiopods — Rensselaeria,Platyceras |
NJ0197 |
|
|
| Newton |
Sussex |
NJ |
|
Cambrian Upper |
|
Trilobites Pseudosalteria |
NJ0198 |
|
|
| Newton |
Sussex |
NJ |
|
Cambrian Upper |
|
trilobites -Pseudosalteria |
NJ0199 |
|
|
| Peter Valley |
Sussex |
NJ |
2 km below in bluff |
Silurian |
Decker Ferry |
Stropheodonta,Camarotoechia,Rhynchonella,Whitfieldella,Phaenopora,Diphyphyllum,Zaphrentis,Orthothetes{4} |
NJ0200 |
|
|
| Wallpack Ridge |
Sussex |
NJ |
|
Devonian Lower |
Helderberg |
fossils |
NJ0201 |
|
|
| Wallpack Ridge |
Sussex |
NJ |
In Nearpass quarry and on farm to S |
Silurian |
Decker Ferry |
Zaphrentis,Monotrypa,Pholidops,Stropheodonta,Orthothetes,Dalmanella,Chonetes,Atrypa,Reticularia,pelecypods,Loxonema,Orthoceras,Favosites,Cyrtina,etc.{4} |
NJ0202 |
|
|
| Wallpack Ridge |
Sussex |
NJ |
In quarry |
Devonian |
Manlius |
fossils{4} |
NJ0203 |
|
|
| Wallpack Ridge |
Sussex |
NJ |
regional exposures |
|
|
fossils{4} |
NJ0204 |
|
|
| Blairstown |
Warren |
NJ |
0.8km North of Blairstown,NJ |
Cambrian Upper |
|
Trilobites |
NJ0205 |
|
|
| Blairstown |
Warren |
NJ |
2km ‘Up’ from Yards Creek Pumping Station on Old Mine Rd off Walnut Valley Rd. In road cut |
Silurian |
Shawangunk |
fish fragments |
NJ0206 |
|
|
| Blairstown |
Warren |
NJ |
2km W along cliffs on West bank of Jacksonburg Creek |
|
|
crinoid segments,horn corals,Stereolasma,trilobites=Proetus-others |
NJ0207 |
|
|
| Blairstown |
Warren |
NJ |
At picnic area at Yards Creek Pumping Station off Walnut Valley Rd in construction rubble |
Silurian? |
Martinsburg? |
Eurypterids |
NJ0208 |
|
|
| Columbia |
Warren |
NJ |
|
Ordovician Lower |
Kittatinny Limestone |
brachiopods,Trilobites (Olenellus) |
NJ0209 |
|
|
| North Blairstown |
Warren |
NJ |
1 km N |
Cambrian Upper |
|
Trilobites Plethopeltis |
NJ0210 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
|
Triassic |
Passaic |
Reptile – Stegomus fragments |
NJ0214 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
Along Atlantic shoreline |
|
|
petrified wood |
NJ0215 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
From Raritan Bay to Potomac River in belt 10-20 km W |
Cretaceous |
Matawan |
Ostrea,Gryphaea,Exogyra,Anomia,Camptonectes,Spondylus,Plicatula,Dianchora,Gervilliopsis,Inoceramus,Pinna,Arca,Nucula,Trigonia,Crassatella,Lucina,Cardium,Linearia,Panopaea.{4} |
NJ0216 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
On NJ23 in 10m high road cut in folded rocks near Jct with NJ513 |
Silurian-Devonian |
Green Pond |
Possibly fossils |
NJ0218 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
On Shingles Run,a small branch of Crosswicks Creek |
Paleocene |
Vincentown |
broad microfauna — forams,bryozoa,shark teeth |
NJ0219 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
Outcrops to E of Monmouth Formation from Raritan Bay to Severn River Valley in MD |
Cretaceous Upper |
Rancocas |
Lingulina,Pentacrinus,Goniaster,Cidaris,Salenia,Pseudodiadema,Coptosoma,Terebratula,Gryphaea,Flabellina,Polymorphina,Trematopygus,Catopygus,Hemiaster,Teredo,Nautilus,Ammonites |
NJ0220 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
Per the January 97 Scientific American,the Amber site in New Jersey was found by Jerry Case and is in the dry bed of a large river about 90 minutes (i.e. 100-150 km?) from New York City. Lignite is found in the bed of the river and also in the banks. |
Cretaceous |
Potomac Group |
Lignite,Amber |
NJ0221 |
|
|
| – |
[?] |
NJ |
in a narrow belt E of the Matawan Formation from Raritan Bay to Patuxent River. very fossiliferous shellbeds |
Cretaceous Upper |
Monmouth |
Nautilus,Baculites,Belemnitella,Ostrea,Gryphaea,Exogyra,Anomia,Camptonectes,Neithea,Spondylus,Plicatula,Radula,Lithodomus,Trigonarca,Cibota,Idonearca,Axinea,Trigonia,Crassatella,Dioceras[?],Cardium,Veniella,Callista,Turritella,etc. |
NJ0222 |
No citations for ‘Dioceras’ 050607. Might be a misspelling of ‘Didymoceras’ which has been reported from the New Jersey Cretaceous |
|
| Highland |
[?] |
NJ |
New Jersey – In the cliffs along Raritan Bay between Highland and Cliffwood there are outcrops of Cretaceous marine formations. Reported to be closed off with seawalls to prevent erosion |
Cretaceous |
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NJ0211 |
There does not seem to be a town of Highland. Possibly Atlantic Highlands or Highland Park |
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| Squankums[?] |
[?] |
NJ |
in Greensands |
Eocene |
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fish-Aetobatis,Carcharodon,Galeocerdo,Hemipristis,Lamna,Myliobatis,Odontapsis,Pristis,Scapanorhynchus |
NJ0212 |
Can’t locate a Squankums,NJ |
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| Watertown[?] |
[?] |
NJ |
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Cephalopods-Onococeras |
NJ0213 |
There does not seem to be a Watertown in NJ |
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[?] |
NJ |
In 1990 or so,well preserved Cretaceous insect fossils were reported from amber in an unspecified location in New Jersey. Reported to be at the end of White Oak Road at a depth of a meter or more below the ground surface |
Cretaceous |
Potomac Group |
Potomac |
NJ0217 |
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