Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.0° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 70.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 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.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Unknown, possibly USNM, ANSP, or Tulane (FLMNH).

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111197: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.06.2011

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