Wildwood (800-900 ft) - Kirkwood Formation: Early Miocene, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella aequistriata
Conrad 1863
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Turritella cumberlandia
Conrad 1863
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula proxima
Say 1820
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten madisonius
Say 1824
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia granulata
Say 1824
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte distans
Conrad 1862
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra delumbis
Conrad 1832
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Phacoides crenulatus
(Conrad 1840)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Cape May |
Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 74.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 70.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
Key time interval: | Early Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 23.03 - 15.98 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kirkwood | Member: | Shiloh Marl | ||
Local section: | Wildwood | Local bed: | 850 | ||
Regional section: | Cape May | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. Equivalent in age and slightly older than the Calvert Formaiton of Maryland and Virginia. Overlain by the Cohansey Sand with a time transgressive contact, Kirkwood Formation is Burdigalian-Langhian in age. Collections from between depths of 800 and 900 ft. |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Fossiliferous sandstone and quartzite. | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Geology comments: No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text. Deposited in a sublittoral to nearshore environments |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Reposited in the ANSP collections. From Richards and Harbison (1943): "The Woolman Collection contains fossils obtained at various levels between 411 and 1000 ft." | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative. |
Metadata
Database number: | 59750 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-04-10 14:10:19 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-04-10 14:10:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
17100. | H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1942. Miocene invertebrate fauna of New Jersey. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 94:167-250 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |