Rancocas Creek, near Vincentown - Vincentown Fm (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (40.0° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 56.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Vincentown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Vincentown Fm of the Rancocas Gp. AGE: Paleocene, according to Miller (1947; Danian, according to more recent sources. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated, but presumably shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not stated, but presumably sandstone. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of facies description and specimen preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Schuchert; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: C. Schuchert. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 155904: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.05.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to echinoderms, but presumably molluscs are present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with relatively antiquated nomenclature, and species-resolution identifications.
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Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Hemiasteridae
Hemiaster parastatus
Hemiaster parastatus Morton 1833 heart urchin
USNM 29472
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Holaster cinctus
Holaster cinctus Morton 1830 sea urchin
USNM 29467
 Calycina - Phymosomatidae
Gauthieria speciosa
Gauthieria speciosa Clark 1801 sea urchin
USNM 29468
 Salenioida - Saleniidae
Salenia tumidula
Salenia tumidula Clark 1801 sea urchin