Burlington County (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 70.2° W)

When: Shiloh marl Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• source paper cites as "Cretaceous"

•geologic maps give early Miocene

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one specimen of right manus (A. whitfieldi);

Collected by S. Wetherill

• Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, holotype, Cat. No. 4693 (A. whitfieldi);

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 142356: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 10.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Archaeocarabus whitfieldi Pilsbry 1901 spiny lobster