Blackwood Terrace (New Egypt Fm.): Late Maastrichtian, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Nucleolitidae
Reptilia - Mosasauridae
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
Chondrichthyes - Chimaeriformes - Callorhynchidae
Ischyodus sp. Egerton 1843
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Chondrichthyes - Batoidea
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
Polychaeta
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea vulgaris Morton 1830
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton 1828)
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Pyropsidae
Pyropsis sp. (Conrad 1860)
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Anchura pennata (Morton 1834)
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Lunatia halli Gabb 1860
Gyrodes abyssinus (Morton 1834)
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Baculitidae
Baculites ovatus (Say 1820)
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Gloucester
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 75.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 38.4° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Late Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:New Egypt
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray,green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: gray-green poorly sorted clayey glaucontitic sand with small quartz pebbles
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:124937
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:2012-02-29 08:14:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-29 08:14:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
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]