USGS 16224: Early/Lower Campanian, Delaware

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
cf. Turritella lorillardensis
rare category
Turritella cf. T. lorillardensis Weller
Turritella quadrilira Johnson 1898
rare category
Haustator quadrilira (Johnson)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Volutomorpha sp. Gabb 1877
rare category
Volutomorpha sp.
Gastropoda - Naticidae
aff. Euspira rectilabrum (Conrad 1858)
rare category
Euspira aff. E. rectilabrum (Conrad)
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799
rare category
Nucula sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Ambigostrea tecticosta
rare category
Crassostrea tecticosta (Gabb)
Agerostrea ? falcata (Morton 1827)
rare category
Lopha falcata Morton ?
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820
rare category
Exogyra sp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777
rare category
Pteria sp.
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea reticulata
rare category
Lima reticulata Forbes
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833
rare category
Anomia argentaria Morton
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes bellisculptus
rare category
Camptonectes bellisculptus (Conrad)
? Camptonectes burlingtonensis
rare category
Camptonectes ? burlingtonensis (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
? Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
rare category
Inoceramus ? sp.
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
aff. Glycymeris mortoni
common category
Glycymeris aff. G. mortoni (Gabb)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon sp. Conrad 1869
rare category
Nemodon sp.
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Megatrigoniidae
cf. Scabrotrigonia (Pterotrigonia) bartrami
rare category
spelled with current rank as Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
Trigonia (Pterotrigonia) cf. T. (P.) bartrami Stephenson
Scabrotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) sp. Dietrich 1933
rare category
spelled with current rank as Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
Trigonia (Scabrotrigonia) sp.
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797
rare category
Lucina sp.
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Poromyidae
Liopistha ? protexta Conrad 1853
rare category
Liopistha protexta Conrad?
Cymella bella
rare category
Cymella bella Conrad
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
cf. Parmicorbula bisulcata
rare category
Parmicorbula cf. P. bisulcata Conrad
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Legumen ? ellipticum
rare category
Legumen ellipticum Conrad?
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
cf. Etea carolinensis Conrad 1875
rare category
Etea cf. E. carolinensis Conrad
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Granocardium (Granocardium) sp. (Gabb 1869)
rare category
synonym of Trachycardium
Cardium (Granocardium) sp.
Pleurocardia (Trachycardium) ? longstreeti
common category
Cardium (Trachycardium) longstreeti Weller?
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Linearia metastriata
rare category
original and current combination Linearis
Linearia metastriata Conrad
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
? Crassatella sp. Lamarck 1799
rare category
Crassatella ? sp.
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
rare category
Serpula sp.
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida
? Hardouinia sp. d'Archiac and Haime 1853
rare category
corrected as Harduinia
Hardouinea? sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Delaware County:New Castle
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 75.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 45.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper 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/Lower Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Englishtown
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 L.W. Stephenson 16Sept1962
Metadata
Also known as:Norht side of Chesapeake and Delaware canal at post 40+500
Database number:6136
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-28 11:09:21 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]