The Mosasaur

The Mosasaur

The DVPS publishes a journal, The Mosasaur, on an occasional basis, which contains articles on fossils and geology related topics, especially those of local interest. The editors of the journal welcome contributions from avocational paleontologists as well as those from professionals in the field, publishing articles of interest to all. The Mosasaur retails for $10 for Volumes I through Volume VII, Volume VIII (in color) retails for $15 , Volume IX retails for $11.00, and Volume X through Volume XII retail for $20.00 plus additional fee for a shipping ($4.00 per volume).

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The following is a list of the contents of Volume I through Volume XIII. 

Volume I

Contents:

New and Revised Records of Pleistocene Mammals of New Jersey     

    David C. Parris

Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley Region, Part I: Cambrian to Jurassic

    William B. Gallagher

Annotated Localities of Ornithopod Dinosaurs: Implications to Mesozoic Paleobiography

    David B. Weishampel and Judith B. Wieshampel

A Faunal Review of the Judith River (Oldman) Formation, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada

    Peter Dodson

Halisaurus platyspondylus – The Third Reported Occurance of this Mosasaur in New Jersey

    Frank Bukowski

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Volume II

Contents:

Reconstruction and Architecture of medullosan pteriodosperms (Pennsylvanian)

    H.W. Pfefferkorn, W.H. Gillespie, D. A. Resnick, and M. H. Scheihing

Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region, Part II: Cretaceous to Quaternary 

    William B. Gallagher

Paleontology in the Grand Canyon of Arizona: 125 years of lessons and enigmas from the late Precambrian to the present 

    Earle E. Spamer

No ichthyosaurs in the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey … or Saskatchewan 

    Donald Baird

Evidence of giant protostegid sea-turtles in the Cretaceous of New Jersey

    Donald Baird

An upper Campanian vertebrate fauna from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 

    Edward M. Lauginiger

The paleoecology of the ornithopod dinosaur Tenontosaurus tilletti from the Cloverly Formation, Big Horn Basin of Wyoming and Montana 

    Catherine A. Forster

International Archaeopteryx Conference 

    Peter Dodson

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Volume III

Contents:

Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey Coastal Plain 

       William B. Gallagher, David C. Parris, Earle E. Spamer 

Halisaurus and Prognathodon, two uncommon mosasaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey 

       Donald Baird 

A skull fragment of the Cretaceous cheloniid turtle Osteopygis from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 

       Donald Baird 

An Upper Cretaceous vertebrate assemblage from Big Brook, New Jersey 

       Edward M. Lauginiger 

Upper Cretaceous reptiles from the Severn Formation of Maryland 

       Donald Baird 

A new Severn Formation (Early Middle Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous) locality in Prince Georges County, Maryland                                              

       Eugene F. Hartstein, Lawrence E. Decina

Osteological notes on the fossil turtle ?Dollochelys atlantica (Zangerl)                                                                                                                                                                          

David C. Parris, Craig DeTample, Rachel C. Benton             

Late Cretaceous fossils from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in western Georgia                                                            

David R. Schwimmer           

 Some Upper Triassic reptiles, footprints, and an amphibian from New Jersey                                                                                                                                                     

Donald Baird 

Ordovician graptolites from a new locality near Jutland, New Jersey

        David C. Parris, Kenneth M. Cruikshank

The sea-robin Prionotus (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes) in the Pleistocene of New Jersey 

        R. William Selden

Hawkin’ hadrosaurs: The Stereographic record

        Richard C. Ryder

A paleontological pilgrimage through Philadelphia, the birthplace of American paleontology

        Catherine A. Forster, Earle E. Spamer

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Volume IV

Contents

Field guide to the vertebrate paleontology of Late Triassic age rocks in the southwestern Newark Basin  (Newark Supergroup, New Jersey and Pennsylvania) 

      Paul E. Olsen and John J. Flynn 

Upper Triassic Dinophyton zone plant fossil from the Stockton Formation in southeastern Pennsylvania 

      Brain J. Axsmith and Peter A. Kroehler 

Notes on six real and supposed type fossils from the Newark Supergroup (Triassic) of Pennsylvania 

      Earle E. Spamer 

Medial Cretaceous carnivorous dinosaur and footprints from New Jersey 

      Donald Baird 

The Upper Cretaceous shark Cretolamna appendiculata (Agassiz) in the Raritan Formation (Cenomanian) of  New Jersey 

      Gerard R. Case 

A predator attacks Sphenodiscus 

       Frank Bukowski and Paul Bond 

The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian, Black Creek Formation) fossil fish fauna of Phoebus Landing, Bladen County, North Carolina 

       Albert J. Robb 

The biostratigaphy of the Lower Helderbergian formations (Lower Devonian) as exposed along Wallpack Ridge, Sussex County, New Jersey 

       Albert J. Waggenhoffer 

Quaternary mammals from the continental shelf off New Jersey 

       William B. Gallagher,  David C. Parris, Barbara Smith Grandstaff and Craig DeTample 

Preliminary reexamination of the Fish House local fauna and flora (Pleistocene),  Pennsauken, Camden County, New Jersey 

       Arthur E. Bogan, Earle E. Spamer, G. Christine Manville, William B. Gallagher and Arthur J. Cain 

The vertebrate fauna from the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous) of Wetland and Golden Valley Counties, Montana 

       Anthony R. Fiorillo 

Rediscovery of fossil material at the Academy of Natural Sciences of  Philadelphia from Edward Drinker Cope’s 1893 expedition to the Dakotas 

       Edward Daeschler and Anthony R. Fiorillo 

A historic piece of  petrified wood from the Triassic of Arizona 

   Earle E.  Spamer 

A paleontological pilgrimage  through Philadelphia, the birthplace of American paleontology. II. With notes on the paleontology of Philadelphia. 

   Earle E. Spamer and Catherine A. Forster 

Delaware Valley Paleontological Society.  “Ad amorem rerum fossam” 

   Edward M. Lauginiger

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Volume V

Contents

Records of musk oxen from the Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America 

      Jerry N. McDonald and Clayton E. Ray 

Quaternary vertebrates from the Virginia Coastal Plain 

      David C. Parris and Barbara Smith Grandstaff 

Review and new data on the Port Kennedy Local Fauna and Flora (Late Irvingtonian), Valley  Forge National History Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania 

      Edward Daeschler, Earle E. Spamer, and David C. Parris 

A Pleistocene house from Connecticut 

      Spencer G. Lucas 

Late Pleistocene(?) land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in “red earth” deposits of the Grand Canyon,  Arizona 

      Earle E. Spamer 

An associated tiger shark dentition from the Miocene of Maryland 

      Michael D. Gottfried 

Further examination of the Woodbury and basal Englishtown Formations in Camden County and adjacent area, New Jersey 

      Daniel Kuehne 

Probable occurrence of the shark genus Palaeocarcharodon (Neoselachii: Cretoxyrhinidae) in the Paleocene of New Jersey 

      Gerard R. Case 

The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the northern Atlantic Coastal Plain 

  William B. Gallagher

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Volume VI 

Contents

Reconstructed Dentition of the Rare Lamnoid Shark Parotodus benedeni from the Yorktown Formation at Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina. 

      Breeton W. Kent and George W. Powell, Jr. 

Speculations on the Size and Morphology of the Extinct Lamnoid Shark, Parotodus benedini 

     Bretton W. Kent 

A Late Cretaceous (Severn Formation) Vertebrate Assemblage from Bowie, Maryland 

     Eugene F. Harstein, Lawrence E. Decina and Ronald F. Keil 

Cretolamna cf. C. aschersoni (Stromer) (Neoselachii:  Cretoxyrhinidae), from the Late Paleocene Early Eocene of Mississippi, USA, with Comparisons to Moroccan Fauna 

      Gerard R. Case and James J. Leggett 

Upper Cretaceous Macroinvertebrate Faunas of the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain 

      Daniel F. Kuehne 

A Pleistocene Mollusk Assemblage from Cooper River, New Jersey 

      Stephen Kurth and Eric Kurth 

A Large Coelacanth, c.f. Diplurus (Pariostegus) longicaudatus, from the Late Triassic Locatong Formation, Granton Quarry, North Bergen, New Jersey 

      Charles A. Rizzo 

Evidence for Live Birth in the Triassic Coelacanth Diplurus (Osteopleurus) newarki 

      Charles A. Rizzo 

The Parlin Pit: Paleontology, Stratigraphy, and Depositional Environments at a Cretaceous Amber Site in New Jersey 

      William B. Gallagher, Kirk R. Johnson, Edward Gilmore and Ralph Johnson 

A Scene from American Deep Time: New York's Paleozoic Museum- Revisisted 

      Allen A. Debus and Steve McCarthy

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Volume VII

Contents

Using the latex peel method to collect and cast a Late Devonian lungfish from the Catskill Formation in Pennsylvania

      Edward B. Daeschler and C. Frederick Mullison

Notes on the tooth "saw blades" of Edestus, a Late Paleozoic Chondrichthyan

      Rainer Zangerl and Clifford Jeremiah 

A Preliminary Paleoecological Investigation of Late Pennsylvanian Brachiopods from the LaSalle Limestone, LaSalle County, Illinois

      Stephen L. Brusatte 

Shark-bitten Xiphactinus audax (Teleostei, Ichthyodectiformes) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas

      Kenshu Shimada and Michael J. Everhart 

Plesiosaurs as the food of mosasaurs; new data on the stomach contents ofTylosaurus proriger (Squamata; Mosasauridae) from the Niobrara Formation of western Kansas

      Michael J. Everhart

A new mosasaur specimen from Maastricht (The Netherlands), with a review of the Late Cretaceous-Early Paleogene marine faunas of New Jersey and Limburg

      William B. Gallagher, John W. M. Jagt, Eric W. A. Mulder, and Anne S. Schulp 

Occurrence of Callianassid Coprolites in the Cretaceous of New Jersey

      Carl M. Mehling

A Lungfish (Dipnoan) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Jersey

      David C. Parris, Barbara S. Grandstaff, and William B. Gallagher 

Early Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) Elasmobranchs from the Mowry Shale, Fall River County, South Dakota

      David Cicimurri

Vertebrate fossils from the Upper Cretaceous (Merchantville Formation: Early Campanian) Graham Brick Yards locality of New Jersey

      Albert J. Robb III 

First Record of a Velociraptorine Theropod (Tetanurae, Dromaeosauridae) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal United States

      Caitlin R. Kiernan and David R. Schwimmer 

Astrodon Rediscovered: America's First Sauropod

      Peter M. Kranz 

Remnants of the Collection of Henry Steinhauer in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; With Notes On the Recovery of the Type Material of Three Taxa Named by Adolphe Brongniart

      James C. Lendemer

The Great Extinct Lizard: Hadrosaurus foulkii, "First Dinosaur" of Film and Stage"

      Earle E. Spamer

Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: "Ad Amorem Rerum Fossam - Part 2 - The Second Decade"

      Lawrence E. Decina and Rollin H.Tillis

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Volume VIII

Contents

    Stratigraphy, Depositional Environment, Taphonomy And Geochemistry Of The Baby Back Triceratops Quarry, Hell Creek Formation (Late Cretaceous), Garfield County, Montana

        William B. Gallagher, Joseph Hatcher and Emma Morris

A Shark-Bitten Dinosaur (Hadrosauridae) Femur From The Latest Maastrichtian Basal Hornerstown Formation, New Jersey, U.S.A.

        Jason P. Schein, and Jason C. Poole  

Crocodile vs. Alligator: Distinguishing Between The Teeth Of Fossil Crocodilians

        George F. Klein

Indicated Fossil Turnover Linked to Changes in Depositional Environment between the Maastrichtian and Campanian boundary in the Western United States

        Kate Krsnak , Jason Schein, David C. Parris, Jason Poole, and William B. Gallagher 

New Specimens of Late Cretaceous / Early Paleocene Bird Elements from New Jersey

        William Shankle, Rodrigo Pellegrini, Kyle Shankle 

Taphonomy Of A Late Campanian Fossil Assemblage At Marlboro, Monmouth County, New Jersey

        William B. Gallagher, Joseph Camburn, Sandra Camburn, Paul A. Hanczaryk

First record of the Synechodontiform shark Sphenodus (Neoselachii, Orthacodontidae) from the Danian of eastern North America

        Wayne R. Callahan, Jason P. Schein, David C. Parris, William Shankle 

Delaware Valley Paleontological Society: “Ad Amorem Rerum Fossam – Part 3 – The Third Decade”

        Lawrence E. Decina

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Volume IX 

Contents

Diversity Dynamics In A Unique Fossil-Rich Zone Within The Merchantville Formation Of Monmouth County, New Jersey

        Olivia Tandon, Madelyn Moyer, Matthew Garb

Identification Of Amber From Potash Corporation’s Lee Creek Mine, Beaufort County, North Carolina

        George F. Klein

Lag Deposit Soft Tissue Preservation From A Cretaceous Fish

        Carl Mehling

Haddonfield, New Jersey - More Than Hadrosaurus Foulkii: Invertebrate Paleontology Of The Site

        William R Kuehne, Ardis J. Kuehne

Dealing With A Cretaceous Mystery

        Carl Mehling

A Reinterpretation Of Weller’s (1907) Cucullaea And Lucina Assemblages

        Earl M. Manning, Luke D. Oman

A Close Examination Of An Aragonitic Upper Woodbury Formation Fauna

        Luke D. Oman, Earl M. Manning, Robert F. Badger, John B. Whitley

Biostratigrapic Implications Of Graptolites From The Hedgehaven Farm Site, Jutland Allochthon, New Jersey

        Avinash Subramanian, David C. Parris

A History of the Delaware Valley Paleontological Society

        Decina, Larry

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Volume X 

Contents

SCOYENIA ICHNOFACIES OF THE LANCE FORMATION IN ELK BASIN, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING, USA     

        William Shankle, Jason Schein, Kari Shankle

THE NORTHERNMOST OCCURRENCE OF CHELYDRA SERPENTINA IN THE EASTERN US DURING THE PLEISTOCENE 

        Chase Doran Brownstein

BONY FISH MYSTERY SOLVED!

        Earl Manning

REVIEW OF AN INVERTEBRATE FAUNA FROM THE WOODBURY FORMATION HADDONFIELD, NEW JERSEY, USA 

        William Shankle, Ralph Johnson

TWO NEW, LARGE SPECIMENS OF THE PLEURODIRAN SEA TURTLE TAPHROSPHYS SULCATUS FROM EDELMAN FOSSIL PARK, MANTUA TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY 

        Paul V. Ullmann, Zachary Boles, Kenneth J. Lacovara

AN UPPER CRETACEOUS (LATE CAMPANIAN) FOSSIL COLLECTION FROM THE STONE BRIDGE SITE, CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY - DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

        William R. Kuehne, Ardist J. Kuehne

THE SECOND FOSSIL LUNGFISH TOOTH PLATE FROM THE CRETACEOUS OF NEW JERSEY, U.S.A. 

        Frank Hajzer, Gudni Fabian, Barbara Smith Grandstaff, David C. Parris

A HUMERUS OF A JUVENILE DERMOCHELYID TURTLE FROM THE MIOCENE OF VIRGINIA

        Gudni A. Fabian, David C Parris, Wyatt Nestor-Pasicznyk

PRESENCE OF A DYROSAURID NEOSUCHIAN IN THE SEVERN/BRIGHTSEAT FORMATION OF MARYLAND 

        Donald J Morgan, Robert K. Denton, Robert E. Weems

LARGE BASAL TYRANNOSAUROIDS FROM THE MAASTRICHTIAN AND TERRESTRIAL VERTEBRATE DIVERSITY IN THE SHADOW OF THE K-PG EXTINCTION

        Chase Brownstein

HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY 

        Larry Decina

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Volume XI

Contents

A HOLOCENE BEAVER (CASTOR CANADENSIS) TUNNEL COMPLEX, CROFTON, ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND: THE MOST COMPLEX TUNNEL SYSTEM RECORDED IN THE UNITED STATES

        Ralph E. Eshelman

INQUIRY-BASED FIELD TRIPS IN PALEONTOLOGY FOR STEM CLASSES

        William B. Gallagher

PALEOZOIC FOSSILS OF THE NEW JERSEY ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN

        Kuehne, William R. and Kuehne, Ardis J

AN ADDITIONAL BIRD FOSSIL FROM THE FISHER/SULLIVAN SITE, EOCENE OF VIRGINIA, U.S.A.

        Jeffrey Carpenter and David C. Parris

RESPONSE TO CRITICAL REVIEW OF HADDONFIELD PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE MOSASAUR IX

        Kuehne, William R. and Kuehne, Ardis J

AN EXCEPTIONALLY SMALL JUVENILE GORGOSAURUS LIBRATUS (DINOSAURIA THEROPODA) SPECIMEN FROM THE DINOSAUR PARK FORMATION (CAMPANIAN) OF ALBERTA

        Chan-Gyu Yun

ADDITIONS TO THE BONY FISH FAUNA FROM THE EARLY EOCENE NANJEMOY FORMATION OF MARYLAND AND VIRGINIA (U.S.A)

        Robert E. Weems

A LARGE LONGIROSTRINE CROCODYLIAN FROM THE PALEOCENE VINCENTOWN FORMATION IN BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY AND ASSOCIATED INVERTEBRATE FAUNA

        SADOWSKI, Henry J., CALLAHAN, Wayne R., EHRET, Dana J., CONTI, Lawrence G. SHANKLE, William J And PARRIS, Dave C.,

HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY

        Larry Decina

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Volume XII

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Contents

TAXONOMIC NOTES ON MEGAPNOSAURUS AND ‘SYNTARSUS’ (THEROPODA: COELOPHYSIDAE)

Skye N. McDavid and Jeb E. Bugos

PROVENANCE OF SILICIFIED PALEOZOIC INVERTEBRATE FOSSILS DISPERSED IN NEOGENE - QUATERNARY AGE SEDIMENTS ACROSS THE NEW JERSEY ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN

William Kuehne, Frank Hajzer and Les Spears

CETACEAN REMAINS FROM THE LOWER OLIGOCENE OLD CHURCH FORMATION OF VIRGINIA

Robert E. Weems, Robert W. Boessenecker, and Albert E. Sanders

NEW BIOSTROMES DISCOVERED AT THE UPPER CRETACEOUS (CAMPANIAN) STONE BRIDGE FOSSIL SITE IN CAMDEN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

William R. Kuehne and Ardis J. Kuehne

A DROMAEOSAURID VERTEBRA FROM THE DINOSAUR PARK FORMATION (UPPER CRETACEOUS, CAMPANIAN) OF ALBERTA

Chan-Gyu Yun

AN EARLY SILURIAN FISH FROM THE CLINCH (TUSCARORA) SANDSTONE OF VIRGINIA

Robert E. Weems and Gary J. Grimsley

HISTORY OF THE DELAWARE VALLEY PALEONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Larry Decina

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Volume XIII

Contents

RELATIVE ABUNDANCE OF VERTEBRATE FOSSIL TAXA IN THE UPPER CRETACEOUS EXPOSURES OF MONMOUTH COUNTY BROOKS & A TEST OF SPECIES RICHNESS EXTRAPOLATORS

Kevin D. Mulcahy

THE MYSTERY OF MITCHILL'S MONSTER: AN OTODUS MEGALODON SKELETON, OR AN ASSOCIATED O. MEGALODON AND WHALE?

Tyler Greenfield


THE PROVENANCE OF EXOTIC FOSSILIFEROUS PALEOZOIC BOULDERS EMBEDDED IN QUATERNARY SEDIMENTS OF THE NEW JERSEY ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN 


William Kuehne


GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY OF A NEW UPPER CRETACEOUS (MAASTRICHTIAN) PALEOGENE TRANSITION SITE (K-Pg) DISCOVERED NEAR MULLICA HILL, GLOUCESTER COUNTY, NEW JERSEY 


Lee Spears and William Kuehne


HOMSEY COLLECTION PROVIDES NEW INSIGHT AND NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT MULTIPLE LITTLE-UNDERSTOOD SPECIES OF CRETACEOUS GASTROPDS 


Heather Siple


ATLANTOCHELYS MORTONI: NOMENCLATURAL NOTE ON A GIANT SEA TURTLE FROM THE CRETACEOUS OF NEW JERSEY 


Skye N. McDavid


PTEROSAUR TRACKS FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS PATUXENT FORMATION OF VIRGINIA 


Robert E. Weems and Jon M. Bachman


NEW MOSASAUR REMAINS FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF MISSISSIPPI 

Trevor H. Rempert, Brennan P. Martens, and Alexander P.M. Vinkeles   Melchers



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