Where: Cumberland County, New Jersey (39.4° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 70.6° 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. Collection from various levels in the well, but mostly from between the deptths of 212 and 580 ft. The base of Miocene and the top of the Vincentown (Eocene) is thought to be at 580 ft. Additional material was obtained from another local well between 212 and 255 ft.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Specific collection is housed at the USNM and was donated by Dr Hildegard Van Hagen of Atlantic City, NJ. Material also reposited in the NJGS in Trenton, New Jersey.
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 59720: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Gastropoda | |
"Crucibulum costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata
"Crucibulum costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata Say 1820 slipper shell | |
Turritella secta Conrad 1855 turret shell | |
"Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus, "Polinices heros" = Euspira heros
"Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail
"Polinices heros" = Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail | |
Mitrella laevis snail | |
Ecphora tricostata, "Coralliophila cumberlandiana" = Murexiella cumberlandiana
Ecphora tricostata Martin 1904 murex snail
"Coralliophila cumberlandiana" = Murexiella cumberlandiana Gabb 1860 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
"Mactra delumbis" = Leptomactra delumbis
"Mactra delumbis" = Leptomactra delumbis Conrad 1832 clam | |
"Ostrea percrassa" = Pycnodonte percrassa
"Ostrea percrassa" = Pycnodonte percrassa Conrad 1840 oyster | |
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginica" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
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Anthozoa | |
Astrangia danae Agassiz 1850 stony coral |