Cape May (1100-1200 ft) - Kirkwood Formation (Miocene of the United States)

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 1100 and 1200 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.

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 59757: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative.
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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata
"Venericardia granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam