Cape May Courthouse (520 ft) - Kirkwood Formation: Early/Lower Miocene, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Echinarachniidae
Echinarachnius sp. Gray 1825
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pyramidellidae
Turbonilla interrupta (Totten 1835)
Gastropoda - Vermetidae
Vermetus graniferus (Say 1824)
recombined as Serpulorbis granifera
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Polinices duplicata (Say 1822)
recombined as Neverita duplicatus
Sinum fragile
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea aperta (Solander 1766)
recombined as Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella cumberlandia Conrad 1863
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Phacoides crenulatus (Conrad 1840)
recombined as Parvilucina crenulata
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis directus (Conrad 1844)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Antigona staminea (Conrad 1838)
recombined as Melosia staminea
Venus mercenaria Linnaeus 1758
recombined as Mercenaria mercenaria
Macrocallista marylandica (Conrad 1833)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactra clathrodon Lea 1833
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte distans Conrad 1862
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Eucrassatella melina (Conrad 1832)
recombined as Marvacrassatella melina
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten madisonius Say 1824
recombined as Chesapecten madisonius
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Melina maxillata (Lamarck 1819)
recombined as Isognomon maxillata
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus incurvus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Cape May
Coordinates: 39.1° North, 74.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° North, 70.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Early/Lower Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kirkwood Member:Shiloh Marl
Local section:Cape May Courthouse
Regional section:Cape May
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. Equivalent in age and slightly older than the Calvert Formaiton of Maryland and Virginia. Overlain by the Cohansey Sand with a time transgressive contact, Kirkwood Formation is Burdigalian-Langhian in age. Collections from a depth of 520 ft.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: poorly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Fossiliferous sandstone and quartzite.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text. Deposited in a sublittoral to nearshore environments
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Collections reposited in the collections of the Historical Museum in Cape May Couty House, and were examined through the courtesy of Mr. Edward Post, Custodian.
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative.
Metadata
Database number:59723
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-04-10 11:28:21 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-10 11:28:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
17100. H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1942. Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 94:167-250 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]