Big Timber Creek, Stratford: Danian, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Eutrophoceras dekayi
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaeostrea vomer
(Morton 1828)
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Etea delwarensis
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Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
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Oleneothyris harlani
(Morton 1829)
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Reptilia
- Crocodylia
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? Crocodylia indet.
(Owen 1842)
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Reptilia
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Hyposaurus rogersii n. gen., n. sp.
Owen 1849
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Gallagher 1993 | ||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Dyrosauridae | |||||||
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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Calcarea
- Calcaronea
- Stellispongiidae
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Peronidella dichotoma
(Laube 1865)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Camden |
| Coordinates: | 39.8° North, 75.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 52.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Danian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Rancocas | Formation: | Hornerstown | Member: | Upper |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper part of formation | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | ferruginous,glauconitic,gray,green lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "grayish olive green glauconitic sand with indurated iron-rich layers" | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| 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: | 124963 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Uhen, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-03-01 11:48:23 | Last modified: | 2017-08-29 16:57:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-01 11:48:23 |
| 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] |
Secondary references:
| 54671 | W. B. Gallagher. 1993. The Cretaceous/Tertiary mass extinction event in the North Atlantic coastal plain. The Mosasaur 5:75-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 40566 | H. W. Miller. 1955. Some Eocene reptiles from New Jersey. Notulae Naturae 268:1-5 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |