Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.0° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 66.6° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From "Jackson-age" deposits, which underlies the Kirkwood Fm (Miocene). AGE: "Jackson-age" in text; here assigned to Late Eocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 825 ft in well.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified siltstone
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 92770: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) delawarensis n. sp." = Dhondtichlamys delawarensis
"Pecten (Chlamys) delawarensis n. sp." = Dhondtichlamys delawarensis Richards and Harbison 1944 scallop | |
Ostrea compressirostra Say 1824 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Scalaria virginiana wentletrap | |
Malacostraca | |
Xanthidae indet. MacLeay 1838 stone crab | |
Thecostraca | |
Solidobalanus sp. Hoek 1913 barnacle |