Sea Isle City, Cape May Co. - Cape May Fm (Pleistocene): Pleistocene, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Crassostrea virginica
(Gmelin 1791)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia simplex
d'Orbigny 1845
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara ovalis
(Bruguiere 1789)
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recombined as Lunarca ovalis | ||||||||||
Anadara transversa
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Anadara (Larkinia) transversa | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax fossor
Say 1822
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Spisula solidissima
(Dilwyn 1817)
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recombined as Hemimactra solidissima | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Mercenaria mercenaria
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Pholadidae
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Pholas truncata
Say 1822
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recombined as Barnea truncata | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Divaricella quadrisulcata
(d'Orbigny 1846)
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recombined as Divalinga quadrisulcata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Ellobiidae
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Melampus lineatus
Say 1822
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synonym of Melampus bidentatus | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Crepidula fornicata
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Crepidula convexa
Say 1822
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Crepidula plana
Say 1822
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Gastropoda
- Littorinidae
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Littorina irrorata
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Littoraria irrorata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Eupleura caudata
(Say 1822)
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Urosalpinx cinerea
(Say 1822)
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Thais haemastoma
(Linnaeus 1767)
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recombined as Stramonita haemostoma | ||||||||||
Subspecies: T. haemastoma floridana | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mangeliidae
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Mangilia plicosa
(Adams 1850)
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recombined as Pyrgocythara plicosa | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra dislocata
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Strioterebrum dislocatum | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Busycon carica
(Gmelin 1792)
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Busycon canaliculatum
(Linnaeus 1758)
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recombined as Busycotypus canaliculatus | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Nassarius vibex
(Say 1822)
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Nassarius obsoletus
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Ilyanassa obsoleta | ||||||||||
Nassarius trivittatus
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Ilyanassa trivittata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Columbellidae
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Columbella (Anachis) avara
(Say 1822)
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Colombella avara | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Cantharus cancellaria
(Conrad 1846)
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recombined as Solenosteira cancellaria | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Polinices duplicatus
(Say 1822)
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recombined as Neverita duplicatus | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Cerithiopsidae
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Seila adamsi
(Lea 1845)
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recombined as Seila adamsii | ||||||||||
Cerithiopsis subulata
(Montagu 1808)
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= Cerithiopsis emersonii
Adams 1839
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Misidentification of exotic species | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Epitonium rupicolum
(Kurtz 1860)
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recombined as Epitonium rupicola | ||||||||||
Epitonium humphreysii
(Kiener 1838)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Cape May |
Coordinates: | 39.2° North, 74.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 74.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Cape May Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon-Wisconsin (MacClintock and Richards 1936), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | unlithified "siliciclastic" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. Cape May Formation contains sands and clays, hence siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962). | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Collection method comments: 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. | |
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoratative publication, and somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments and list synonymies. |
Metadata
Also known as: | New Jersey Loc. 12 | ||
Database number: | 66617 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-10-11 13:11:01 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | group members | Released: | 2007-10-11 13:11:01 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18974. | 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] |
Secondary references:
19909 | A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |