Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (38.9° N, 74.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 70.5° 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 400 and 500 ft. The characteristic species, Bullopsis integra, of St Marys Fm, is found in the upper level (420-460 ft).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Reposited in the ANSP 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 59754: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma eboreum top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog |