USGS 17754: Early Campanian, Delaware
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Polychaeta
- Serpulimorpha
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Hamulus major
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rare category | |||||||||
| Hamulus major Gabb | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caestocorbula crassiplica
(Gabb 1860)
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rare category | |||||||||
| Caesticorbula crassiplica (Gabb) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Poromyida
- Poromyidae
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Cymella bella
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rare category | |||||||||
| Cymella bella Conrad | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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rare category | |||||||||
| Idonearca sp. - owens | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Laxispira lumbricalis
Gabb 1877
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rare category | |||||||||
| Laxispira lumbricalis Gabb | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Arrhoges (Latiala) sp.
(Gabb 1868)
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rare category | |||||||||
| Arrhoges (Latiala) sp. | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Paladmetidae
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cf. Paladmete cancellaria
Conrad 1858
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rare category | |||||||||
| Paladmete cf. P. cancellaria Conrad | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Gyrodes sp.
Conrad 1860
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rare category | |||||||||
| Gyrodes sp. | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Delaware |
| Coordinates: | 39.5° North, 75.7° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.0° North, 45.6° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| *Period: | Late/Upper Cretaceous | *Epoch: | Senonian |
| *International age/stage: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Early Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Merchantville |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all microfossils,difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
| Collection method comments: collected by C. W. Carter 1935-7 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | South side of Chesapeake and Delaware canal at station 62+550 | ||
| Database number: | 6124 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Kosnik | Enterer: | M. Kosnik |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-01-28 12:26:53 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 384. | J. P. Owens, J. P. Minard, N. F. Sohl and F. James Mello. 1970. Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland. USGS Professional Paper 674:1-60 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik] |