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 well between 400 and 450 ft.
• group of beds-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 59740: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris parilis Conrad 1843 clam | |
Macrocallista marylandica Conrad 1833 venus clam |