Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 40.6° N, 36.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Laurel Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, pebbly sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124935: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Cliona cretacica demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
Pycnodonte mutabilis oyster
Exogyra cancellata oyster
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnitella americana belemnite |