Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 43.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Merchantville Formation, Late/Upper Santonian (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Merchantville Fm, which is overlain by the Englishtown Fm. AGE: Late Santonian, on the basis of ammonoid biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From lower part of formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, quartzose, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTOR: Not stated in text. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and W. A. Cobban. 1993. Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. Journal of Paleontology 67(5):828-849 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 88607: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.04.2009

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