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 385 ft in well.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal siltstone and poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
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 92762: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata, Astarte distans
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata Say 1824 clam | |
Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
"Venus plena" = Mercenaria plena
"Venus plena" = Mercenaria plena Conrad 1869 quahog | |
"Arca subrostrata" = Dallarca subrostrata
"Arca subrostrata" = Dallarca subrostrata Conrad 1841 clam | |
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius
"Pecten madisonius" = Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus conradi Pilsbry and Harbison 1933 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Acteocina kirkwoodiana n. sp.
Acteocina kirkwoodiana n. sp. Richards and Harbison 1944 barrel-bubble | |
Crepidula fornicata, "Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta, "Crucibulum costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
"Calyptraea aperta" = Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell
"Crucibulum costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata Say 1820 slipper shell | |
Turritella cumberlandia Conrad 1863 turret shell | |
"Mitrella communis" = Astyris communis, Nassarius trivittatoides
"Mitrella communis" = Astyris communis Conrad 1862 true whelk
Nassarius trivittatoides Whitfield 1894 true whelk | |
Seila clavulus, "Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus
Seila clavulus snail
"Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail |