Where: New Jersey (40.4° N, 74.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 43.8° W)
When: Woodbury Formation, Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• 13 specimens (T. subquadratus); an incomplete carapace (N. pierrensis);
Collected by Weller
• Weller is believed to have collected the specimen(s) from Woodbury clay, Lorillard, NJ (M. mortoni), may also be stored at Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Wagner Free Institute of Science, and the New Jersey State Museum; 13 specimens (T. subquadratus); New Jersey State Museum (N. pierrensis);
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 141940: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 03.04.2013, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Mesostylus mortoni Pilsbry 1901 decapod | |
Necrocarcinus pierrensis Rathbun 1917 crab | |
Tetracarcinus subquadratus Weller 1905 crab | |
Bivalvia | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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