Timber Creek: Ypresian, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca quindecemradiata
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaeostrea vomer
(Morton 1828)
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Gryphaea dissimilaris
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Etea delawarensis
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Camden |
| Coordinates: | 39.8° North, 75.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.9° North, 58.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Manasquan | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Wilcox | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | glauconitic,quartzose,green argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "medium-green glauconitic quartz sand with clay" | |
| 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
| Also known as: | Clementon | ||
| Database number: | 124967 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2012-03-01 12:40:59 | Last modified: | 2017-08-29 17:11:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-01 12:40:59 |
| 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] |