Genus: Telmatornis MARSH, 1870
Etymology: Greek, telmat- (telma), “marsh, swamp” and Greek, ornis, “bird”, “Marsh Bird”.

Species: priscus MARSH, 1870
Etymology: Latin, priscus, "ancient."

Holotype: YPM 840

Locality: Cream Ridge Marl Company quarry near Hornerstown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Horizon: Navesink Formation, Monmouth Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Distal end of left humerus.

Referred material:

= Telmatornis affinis MARSH, 1870
Etymology: Latin, ad-, "near" and Latin, finis, "boundary, end, neighboring, adjunct, next."

Holotype: YPM 845

Locality: Cream Ridge Marl Company quarry near Hornerstown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Horizon: Navesink Formation, Monmouth Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Middle Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Proximal end of right humerus, distal end of right carpometacarpus.

 


= Graculavus pumilis MARSH, 1872
Etymology: Latin, pumilio, “dwarf.”

Holotype: YPM 850

Locality: Battle Creek, Hornerstown, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Horizon: Hornerstown Formation, Rancocas Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Proximal end of a right humerus with distal end of right carpometacarpus and associated fragments of long bone shafts.

Note: There is some debate on whether this formation is Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous or Danian, Early Paleocene.

 


= ?Palaeotringa vetus MARSH, 1870
Etymology: Latin, vetus, “ancient.”

Holotype: ANSP 13361

Locality: Near Arneytown, on the Monmouth-Burlington county Boundary, New Jersey.

Horizon: Basal Hornerstown Formation, Greensand, Rancocas Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material: Distal end of left tibiotarsus.

Referred material:

YPM 2808: ?

Note: There is some debate on whether this formation is Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous or Danian, Early Paleocene.

HOPE, 2002

ANSP 25221: Left tibiotarsus, distal end.

 


Locality: Inversand Company marl pit, Sewell, Gloucester County, New Jersey.

Horizon: Basal Hornerstown Formation, Greensand, Rancocas Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

ANSP 15360: Left humerus lacking proximal end.

ANSP 15541: Right pedal phalanx I of digit II.

NJSM 11853: Distal end of left tarsometatarsus.

 


Locality: From spill piles near junction of Routes 537 and 539, near Hornerstown, Upper Freehold Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey.

Horizon: Hornerstown Formation, Rancocas Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Maastrichtian Stage, uppermost Senonian subepoch, Gulf Epoch, Late Cretaceous.

Material:

NJSM 11900: Proximal end of right ulna.

Note: There is some debate on whether this formation is Maastrichtian, Late Cretaceous or Danian, Early Paleocene.