Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.0° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 70.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kirkwood Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kirkwood Fm, which is in this section overlies "Jackson-age" deposits, and underlies the Cohansey Fm. AGE: Miocene in text; Early Miocene on the basis of more recent dating and faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 308 ft in well.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by McGee
Collection methods: core,
• COLLECTOR: T.C. McGee of the Artesian Well Drilling Company. REPOSITORY: New Jersey State Museum, ANSP.
Primary reference: H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1944. Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils. Notulae Naturae 132:1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92759: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |
"Melina maxillata" = Isognomon maxillata
"Melina maxillata" = Isognomon maxillata Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
"Cardium patuxentium" = Chesacardium craticuloides
"Cardium patuxentium" = Chesacardium craticuloides Conrad 1845 cockle | |
"Tellina declivis" = Moerella declivis
"Tellina declivis" = Moerella declivis Conrad 1834 tellin clam | |
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria, Dosinia acetabulum
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog
Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam | |
"Corbula idonea" = Bicorbula idonea, Corbula inaequalis
"Corbula idonea" = Bicorbula idonea Conrad 1833 clam
Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata, Astarte perplana
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata Say 1824 clam INCLUDES: Astarte undulata vaginulata
Astarte perplana Conrad 1840 clam |