Mantua Creek, Sewell: Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella americana
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea falcata (Morton 1827)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra cancellata
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Pycnodonte mutabilis
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona cretacica
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Gloucester
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 75.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 46.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian - Early/Lower Maastrichtian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:Mount Laurel
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,pebbly lithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: indurated glaucontitic quartz sand with pebbles and limonite layers
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:124935
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-02-29 07:36:55 Last modified:2020-08-17 11:36:49
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-29 07:36:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
39861. W. B. Gallagher. 1984. Paleoecology of the Delaware Valley region. Part II: Cretaceous to Quartenary. The Mosasaur 2:9-43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Carrano]