USGS D9715, Oschwald's clay pit [Merchantville Fm]: Early/Lower Campanian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) sp. Zittel 1884
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Menabites (Delawarella) delawarensis (Morton 1830)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras placenta (DeKay 1828)
Gallagher 1984
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella merchantvillensis
Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Anchura rostrata
Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
Turbinella intermedia
Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Lunatia halli Gabb 1860
Gallagher 1984
recombined as Euspira halli
Gyrodes petrosus
Gallagher 1984
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Avellana bullata
Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea antrosa
Gallagher 1984
Cucullaea neglecta
Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium tenuistriatum (Whitfield 1885)
Gallagher 1984
recombined as Granocardium tenuistriatum
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea decisa
Gallagher 1984
Glycimeris mortoni
Gallagher 1984
original and current combination Glycymeris
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.4° North, 74.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 43.9° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Early/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.50000 - 70.60000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Merchantville
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Merchantville Fm, which is overlain by the Englishtown Fm. AGE: Early Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:quartzose lithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silty quartz sand. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to ammonoids. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:88606
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Shalap
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-16 13:02:38 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-04-16 13:02:38
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29725. W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1993. Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. Journal of Paleontology 67(5):828-849 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

39861 W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]