Wildwood (600-700 ft) - Kirkwood Formation (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.0° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 70.4° 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. Collections from between depths of 600 and 700 ft.

• group of beds-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

Collection methods: Reposited in the ANSP collections. From Richards and Harbison (1943): "The Woolman Collection contains fossils obtained at various levels between 411 and 1000 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 59748: 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.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog
Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra clathrodon Lea 1833 clam