The cretaceous birds of New JerseyOlson, Storrs L.
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The cretaceous birds of New Jersey
Olson, Storrs L.
Birds, Fossil; Paleontology -- Cretaceous; Paleontology -- New Jersey
Comparisons.--Nothing can be said about this very poor specimen except
that it came from a bird with a carpometacarpus slightly larger than
that of a modern specimen of the burhinid _Esacus magnirostris_.
Because _Graculavus velox_ is the only bird yet known in the New Jersey
fossil fauna that was of this same size, the present specimen may
possibly be referable to that species.
=Genus _Telmatornis_ Marsh, 1870=
Type-Species.--_Telmatornis priscus_ Marsh, 1870, by subsequent
designation (Hay, 1902:528).
Included Species.--Type species only.
=_Telmatornis priscus_ Marsh, 1870=
Figures 5_b-j_, 6_c,e,g_, 7_a,d,g,j,n_
_Telmatornis priscus_ Marsh, 1870:210.
_Telmatornis affinis_ Marsh, 1870:211.
_Graculavus pumilis_ Marsh, 1872:364.
_?Palaeotringa vetus_ Marsh, 1870:209.
Holotype.--Distal end of left humerus (Figure 5_e,h_), YPM 840;
collected in pits of the Cream Ridge Marl Company, near Hornerstown,
New Jersey by J.G. Meirs. Navesink Formation, Maastrichtian, Late
Cretaceous (Baird, 1967).
Referred Specimens.--Distal end of right humerus (Figure 5_f,g_),
YPM 845 (holotype of _Telmatornis affinis_ Marsh 1870); same data as
holotype of _T. priscus_.
Proximal end of right humerus (Figure 5_b-d_), YPM 850, with distal
end of right carpometacarpus (Figure 5_i_) and several fragments of
shafts of long bones apparently associated (holotypical material of
_Graculavus pumilis_ Marsh, 1872); collected near Hornerstown, New
Jersey, by J.G. Meirs; probably from the basal Hornerstown Formation,
Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous.
Distal end of left tibiotarsus (Figure 7_n_), ANSP 13361 (holotype
of _Palaeotringa vetus_), collected near Arneytown, on the
Monmouth-Burlington county boundary, New Jersey; Basal Hornerstown
Formation, Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous (Baird, 1967).
Left humerus lacking proximal end (Figure 6_c,e,g_), ANSP 15360;
collected in 1971 from the Inversand Company marl pit, Sewell,
Gloucester County, New Jersey, by Keith Madden. Basal Hornerstown
Formation, Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous.
Distal end of left tarsometatarsus (Figure 7_d,g,j_), NJSM 11853;
collected 27 March 1975 by David C. Parris from the main fossiliferous
layer of the Inversand Company marl pit.
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