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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Demospongiae | |
Cliona cretacica demosponge | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869 clam | |
Cucullaea neglecta clam | |
Crassostrea tecticosta oyster | |
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster
Exogyra ponderosa oyster | |
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Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam | |
Trachycardium tenuistriatum cockle | |
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam | |
Aphrodina cretacea venus clam | |
Trigonia mortoni clam | |
"Trigonia ? eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis
"Trigonia ? eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis Gabb 1860 clam originally entered as "Trigonia ?eufaulensis"
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Nucula percrassa nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Placenticeras placenta DeKay 1828 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella marshalltownensis turret shell | |
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli, Gyrodes abyssinus
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli Gabb 1860 moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail | |
Pyropsis sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
Anchura abrupta snail |