Where: Sussex County, New Jersey (41.2° N, 74.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° S, 22.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Marcellus Formation, Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• section is probably a correlative of the Bakhoven Shale Member
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshorepyritic, black, carbonaceous
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: E. V. Storm. 1985. A study of a diminutive fauna from the Marcellus Formation (Middle Devonian-Erian) from sites in Albany County, New York, and Sussex County, New Jersey. 1-27 [A. Miller/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9471: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 08.11.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Leiopteria laevis" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria laevis" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
Centroceras marcellense nautiloid | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Tentaculita | |
Styliolina fissurella Hall 1879 |