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 5
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic sandstone
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 3883: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 11.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Cliona cretacica demosponge | |
Bivalvia | |
"Trigonia eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis
"Trigonia eufaulensis" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) eufaulensis Gabb 1860 clam | |
Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834 clam | |
Panopea decisa clam | |
Trachycardium tenuistriatum cockle | |
Veniella trapezoidea clam
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam | |
Aphrodina eufaulensis venus clam | |
Nemodon stantoni clam | |
Cucullaea neglecta clam | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Pecten quinquenarius scallop | |
Neithea quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 scallop | |
Paranomia scabra scallop | |
Plagiostoma erecta file clam | |
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Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster | |
Pycnodonte vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra ponderosa oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Avellana bullata snail | |
Turritella encrinoides turret shell | |
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli, Gyrodes abyssinus
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli Gabb 1860 moon snail
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail | |
"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa
"Xenophora leprosa" = Xenophora (Endoptygma) leprosa Morton 1834 carrier shell | |
Anchura pennata snail | |
Pyropsis planimarginata snail
Pyropsis trochiformis snail | |
Turbinella intermedia snail | |
Odontofusus mucronata snail | |
Pyrifusus meeki snail | |
Polychaeta | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 |