Brigantine well (625-651 ft) - Kirkwood Formation (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Atlantic County, New Jersey (39.4° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Shiloh Marl Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. Equivalent in age and slightly older than the Calvert Formaiton of Maryland and Virginia. Overlain by the Cohansey Sand with a time transgressive contact, Kirkwood Formation is Burdigalian-Langhian in age. From between depths of 625 and 651 ft.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, argillaceous, silty mudstone and pebbly sandstone

• No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text. Deposited in a sublittoral to nearshore environments
• No lithologic data reported in text. Clayey to silty mudrock, massive sand, and thin pebble lenses.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• A single young specimen of Solarium trilineata Conrad and unidentifiable fragments were taken from the well at Brigantine between the depths of 625 and 651 ft.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1942. Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 94:167-250 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59784: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Solarium trilineatum
Solarium trilineatum Conrad 1841 top snail