Cheesequake Formation (NJ*)
Late Cretaceous (Santonian to Campanian)*
[Type locality:] exposures in gullies in Cheesequake Park, eastern part of South Amboy 7.5-min quadrangle, Middlesex Co., NJ (Owens and others, 1998).
Atlantic Coast basin*
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