Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 44.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Merchantville Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Merchantville Fm, which is overlain by the Englishtown Fm. AGE: Early Campanian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Mostly from lower part of formation, 0.9-1.5 m above base.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, quartzose, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the ANSP, USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 88610: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2009, edited by Mark Uhen, Matthew Carrano and Roger Benson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Malacostraca | |
| |
| |
Cephalopoda | |
"Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis" = Scaphites hippocrepis, "Scaphites hippocrepis" = Scaphites hippocrepis2
"Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis" = Scaphites hippocrepis DeKay 1828 ammonite | |
Baculites haresi Reeside 1927 ammonite | |
Glyptoxoceras sp. Spath 1925 ammonite | |
| |
Menabites (Delawarella) delawarensis Morton 1830 ammonite
Menabites (Delawarella) vanuxemi Morton 1830 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
| |
| |
"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa2
| |
| |
| |
| |
Scaphopoda | |
| |
Bivalvia | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis3
| |
"Cardium tenuistriatum" = Granocardium tenuistriatum2
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
"Pecten (Neithea) quinquecostata" = Neithea quinquecostata2
| |
| |
| |
| |
"Ostrea cf. mesenterica" = Lopha mesenterica2
| |
"Gervillia ensiformis" = Gervilliopsis ensiformis3
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Polychaeta | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet.2 Ehrenberg 1831 | |
unclassified | |
Echinodermata indet.2 Klein 1754 | |
Echinoidea | |
| |
Gnathostomata | |
| |
Chondrichthyes | |
| |
| |
Scapanorhynchus texanus2 Roemer 1852 goblin shark ASNP 15147, 15148, 15429, 21518, 21519, 21521, 21523; NJSM 20650
| |
"Odontaspis cf. samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri4
| |
| |
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata4
| |
| |
| |
Reptilia | |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
Actinopteri | |
| |
| |
| |
Anthozoa | |
| |
Demospongiae | |
| |
Rostellites | |