Also known as Clementon
Where: Camden County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Manasquan Formation, Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• Wilcox
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, quartzose, green, argillaceous 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 124967: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 01.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
Gryphaea dissimilaris oyster | |
Etea delawarensis clam |