Squankum: Middle Eocene, New Jersey

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Endopachys sp. Lonsdale 1845
Balanophyllia inauris n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Trochocyathus conoides
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum mortoni n. sp. Vaughan 1900
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Anchippodus riparius Leidy 1868
Gallagher 1984
nomen dubium belonging to Trogosinae
Reptilia - Palaeophiidae
Paleophis sp. (Owen 1841)
Gallagher 1984
original and current combination Palaeophis
Reptilia - Diatrymiformes - Diatrymidae
Diatryma regens (Marsh 1894)
Gallagher 1984
original and current combination Barornis regens
Chondrichthyes
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880
Gallagher 1984
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia antiquata (Linnaeus 1758)
Gallagher 1984
recombined as Cardites antiquata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Jersey County:Monmouth
Coordinates: 40.2° North, 74.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 62.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Shark River
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper part of second bed of green sand of Cook or lower part of third bed of Williams
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic lithified "siliciclastic"
Environment:coastal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:88090
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, M. Uhen Enterer:U. Merkel, M. Uhen
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-04-01 05:01:36 Last modified:2009-04-01 07:01:36
Access level:authorizer only Released:2010-01-08 10:39:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13490. T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

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]