Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.6° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 51.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Laurel Formation (Monmouth Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• probably Mount Laurel Sand (or Matawan Formation?)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Johns Hopkins University
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 78190: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster delawarensis n. sp.
Hemiaster delawarensis n. sp. Clark 1916 heart urchin |