Where: Atlantic County, New Jersey (39.4° N, 74.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shiloh Marl Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. Equivalent in age and slightly older than the Calvert Formaiton of Maryland and Virginia. Overlain by the Cohansey Sand with a time transgressive contact, Kirkwood Formation is Burdigalian-Langhian in age. Numerous fossils were collected beween the depths of 400 and 1240 ft. The base of the Miocene is thought to occur at 1240 ft; Eocene formanifera were found at the depth of 1430-1450 ft

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, argillaceous, silty mudstone and pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USNM and USGS collections. From Richards and Harbison (1942): "The collections of the academy contain numerous fossils obtained by Woolman from wells in Atlantic City, but no depth is given. Many of these specimens were figured by Whitfield. A restudy of Woolman's original well borings has yielded numerous Miocene fossils beween the depths of 400 and 1240 ft. The base of the Miocene is thought to occur at 1240 ft; Eocene formanifera were found at the depth of 1430-1450 ft."

Primary reference: H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1942. Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 94:167-250 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59364: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.03.2006

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