Sea Isle City, Cape May Co. - Cape May Fm (Pleistocene) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as New Jersey Loc. 12

Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.2° N, 74.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 74.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Cape May Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon-Wisconsin (MacClintock and Richards 1936), Pleistocene (Richards 1962).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

• ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. Cape May Formation contains sands and clays, hence siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Richards (1933) and MacClintock and Richards (1936). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66617: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoratative publication, and somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments and list synonymies.
Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula convexa Say 1822 slipper shell
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Littorinidae
"Littorina irrorata" = Littoraria irrorata
"Littorina irrorata" = Littoraria irrorata Say 1822 periwinkle
 Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
"Columbella (Anachis) avara" = Costoanachis avara
"Columbella (Anachis) avara" = Costoanachis avara Say 1822 snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycon carica, "Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus
Busycon carica Gmelin 1792 whelk
"Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus Linnaeus 1758 whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius vibex, "Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta, "Nassarius trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata
Nassarius vibex Say 1822 snail
"Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta Say 1822 snail
"Nassarius trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata Say 1822 snail
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
"Cantharus cancellaria" = Solenosteira cancellaria
"Cantharus cancellaria" = Solenosteira cancellaria Conrad 1846 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Thais haemastoma" = Stramonita haemostoma Linnaeus 1767 murex snail
Subspecies: T. haemastoma floridana
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail
Urosalpinx cinerea Say 1822 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
"Mangilia plicosa" = Pyrgocythara plicosa
"Mangilia plicosa" = Pyrgocythara plicosa Adams 1850 snail
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis emersonii Adams 1839 snail
"Seila adamsi" = Seila adamsii Lea 1845 snail
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
Epitonium humphreysii, "Epitonium rupicolum" = Epitonium rupicola
Epitonium humphreysii Kiener 1838 wentletrap
"Epitonium rupicolum" = Epitonium rupicola Kurtz 1860 wentletrap
 Heterostropha - Ellobiidae
"Melampus lineatus" = Melampus bidentatus
"Melampus lineatus" = Melampus bidentatus Say 1822 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster
 Arcida - Arcidae
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa, "Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark
 Pholadida - Pholadidae
"Pholas truncata" = Barnea truncata
"Pholas truncata" = Barnea truncata Say 1822 clam
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax fossor Say 1822 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam