Oldmans Creek, NJ (Locality 3) (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 45.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marshalltown Formation, Middle Campanian to Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "Locality 3"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; glauconitic shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. R. Bernstein. 1988. Local invertebrate assemblages in the Upper Cretaceous Marshallton Formation along the valley of Oldmans Creek in southern New Jersey. Northeastern Geology 10(3):202-215 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3870: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona cretacica demosponge
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
cf. Vulsella monmouthensis oyster
originally entered as "cf. Volsella monmouthensis"
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"Trigonia ? eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis
"Trigonia ? eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis Gabb 1860 clam
originally entered as "Trigonia ?eufaulensis"
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
aff. Menuites complexus ammonite
originally entered as "Menuites? aff. M. complexus"
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras placenta DeKay 1828 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli, Gyrodes abyssinus
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli Gabb 1860 moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae