Fairton - Kirkwood Formation (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Cumberland County, New Jersey (39.4° N, 75.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 70.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-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.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone

• No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text. Deposited in a sublittoral to nearshore environments
• Fossiliferous sandstone and quartzite.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in ANSP, USNM and USGS collections.

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 59717: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella cumberlandia Conrad 1863 turret shell
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
"Fissuridea griscomi" = Diodora griscomi
"Fissuridea griscomi" = Diodora griscomi Conrad 1834 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea percrassa" = Pycnodonte percrassa
"Ostrea percrassa" = Pycnodonte percrassa Conrad 1840 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Saxicava arctica" = Hiatella arctica
"Saxicava arctica" = Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium patuxentium" = Chesacardium craticuloides
"Cardium patuxentium" = Chesacardium craticuloides Conrad 1845 cockle
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Eucrassatella melina" = Marvacrassatella melina
"Eucrassatella melina" = Marvacrassatella melina Conrad 1832 clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia laevis Say 1824 clam