Where: Burlington County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 56.0° 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
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by MacNeil; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: F.S. MacNeil. 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 155905: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Holaster cinctus Morton 1830 sea urchin | |
Salenia tumidula Clark 1801 sea urchin |