Where: Ocean County, New Jersey (40.1° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 55.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vincentown Formation (Pamunkey Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91761: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 19.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea bryani oyster | |
"Periplomya elliptica" = Solyma elliptica
"Periplomya elliptica" = Solyma elliptica Gabb 1861 tellin clam | |
Cardium knappi cockle | |
Pitar vetus venus clam
? Petricola novaegyptica venus clam | |
Periplomya truncata clam | |
Panopea elliptica clam | |
Gastropoda | |
cf. Clavilithes nobilis snail |