USGS 17700 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Station 59+850 north side of Chesapeake and Delaware canal

Where: Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.3° N, 36.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Merchantville Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Reposited in the USGS

• collected by C. W. Carter 1935-7

Primary reference: J. P. Owens, J. P. Minard, N. F. Sohl and F. James Mello. 1970. Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland. USGS Professional Paper 674:1-60 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6132: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 28.01.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Echinoidae indet.
echinoid indet.
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya occidentalis Morton clam
Pholadomya occidentalis (Morton)
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia contracta" = Linearis
"Linearia contracta" = Linearis tellin clam
Linearia contracta Whitfield
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium (Granocardium) dumosum Conrad 1870 cockle
Cardium (Granocardium) dumosum Conrad
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster
Ostrea falcata Morton
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes bellisculptus scallop
Camptonectes bellisculptus (Conrad)
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
cf. Cucullaea vulgaris clam
Idonearca cf. I vulgaris (Morton)
Scaphopoda
 Gadilida - Gadilidae
Cadulus obnutus tusk shell
Cadulus obnatus Conrad
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentalium subarctuatum tusk shell
Dentalium subarctuatum Conrad
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
cf. Tundora tuberculata Stephenson 1941 snail
Tundora cf. C. tuberculata Stephenson
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella merchantvillensis turret shell
Turritella merchantvillensis Weller