Brandywine Lighthouse well, 485-497 ft [Kirkwood Fm]: Early/Lower Miocene, New Jersey
collected by McGee

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cumberlandia Conrad 1863
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Arca staminea Say 1832
recombined as Dallarca staminea
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium laqueatum Conrad 1830
recombined as Chesacardium laqueatum
Cardium patuxentium Glenn 1904
synonym of Chesacardium craticuloides
Thecostraca - Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Cape May
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 75.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 70.7° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kirkwood
Local section:Brandywine Lighthouse Local bed:491 ft
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kirkwood Fm, which is in this section overlies "Jackson-age" deposits, and underlies the Cohansey Fm. AGE: Miocene in text; Early Miocene on the basis of more recent dating and faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 485-497 ft in well.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified siltstone
Secondary lithology:shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silt, sand, and shells. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collectors:McGee
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: T.C. McGee of the Artesian Well Drilling Company. REPOSITORY: New Jersey State Museum, ANSP.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Fairly antiquated nomenclature with species resolution assignments.
Metadata
Database number:92765
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-11-28 08:18:35 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-11-28 08:18:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31286. H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1944. Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils. Notulae Naturae 132:1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]