Also known as New Jersey Loc. 17

Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 74.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Cape May Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon-Wisconsin (MacClintock and Richards 1936), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Contains mixture of warm and cold faunas. Probably Cape May Formation and Wisconsin (see Richards (1944).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Richards (1933) and MacClintock and Richards (1936). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66622: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.10.2006

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