Also known as Delaware Loc. 1
Where: Sussex County, Delaware (38.8° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 74.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-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
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of 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 66701: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell | |
Busycon perversum Linnaeus 1758 whelk | |
"Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta
"Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta Say 1822 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog | |
"Tagelus gibbus" = Tagelus plebeius
"Tagelus gibbus" = Tagelus plebeius Lightfoot 1786 clam | |
"Modiolus demissus" = Geukensia demissa
"Modiolus demissus" = Geukensia demissa Dilwyn 1817 mussel | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark |