Woodbury (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 45.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marshalltown Formation (Matawan Group), Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "plastic clay"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: J. W. Wells. 1933. Corals of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains and Western Interior of the United States. Bulletins of American Paleontology 18(67):85-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 123470: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
"Siderastrea cretacea" = Astrangia cretacea
"Siderastrea cretacea" = Astrangia cretacea Bölsche 1870 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
"? Parasmilia balanophylloides" = Trochocyathus balanophylloides
"? Parasmilia balanophylloides" = Trochocyathus balanophylloides Boelsche 1870 stony coral