Salvage of Upper Cretaceous Angiosperm Flower-bearing Localities in N. New Jersey

新泽西州北部12处晚白垩世被子植物花卉化石遗址将作为打捞和研究准备材料。这些地点是陆相沉积，年龄范围从上切诺曼尼亚到上图罗尼亚和桑托尼亚。初步观察表明，这些沉积物的重要性在于：(1)被子植物花卉化石非常丰富；(2)花朵保存完好，并与木材、树叶和昆虫联系在一起；(3)多样性异常广泛，包括几个主要的双子叶类群和最早的单子叶植物；(4)部分样品的花部特征与昆虫授粉综合征有关。因此，立即打捞具有很高的优先级。

Twelve late Cretaceous angiosperm fossil flower localities in northern New Jersey will be salvages and the materials prepared for study. The localities are terrestrial deposits and range in age from upper Cenomanian to upper Turonian and Santonian. Preliminary observation indicates these deposits are important because: (1) angiosperm floral fossils are remarkably abundant; (2) the flowers are remarkably well preserved and associated with wood, leaves, and insects: (3) the diversity is unusually broad and includes several major dicot groups and the earliest unequivocal monocots; (4) floral features of some of the samples are typically associated with specialized insect pollination syndromes. Consequently, immediate salvage has a high priority.