Station 6. Biggs Farm, south bank Chesapeake and Delaware Canal: Early Maastrichtian, Delaware

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Cypraeidae
Richards and Shapiro 1963
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Delaware County:New Castle
Coordinates: 39.6° North, 75.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 39.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:34 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 8
Key time interval: Early Maastrichtian
Age range of interval: 72.1 - 66 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Monmouth Formation:Mount Laurel/Navesink
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,gray,green,red claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Rust brown with green and red spots, medium, well sorted, subrounded, quartz sand; most grains stained with iron hydroxide; some glauconite; few black minerals; some brick red and gray clay balls. A highly fossiliferous zone is found at sea level.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Abundance in sediment:abundant
Feeding/predation traces:drill holes
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:176022
Authorizer:P. Wagner Enterer:P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-22 18:00:57 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2016-01-22 18:00:57
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
57733. L. T. Groves. 1990. New Species of Late Cretaceous Cypraeacea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from California and Mississippi, and a Review of Cretaceous Cypraeaceans of North America. The Veliger 33(3):272-285 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]

Secondary references:

57735 H. G. Richards and E. Shapiro. 1963. An invertebrate macrofauna from the Upper Cretaceous of Delaware. Delaware Geological Survey Report of Investigations 7:1-37 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]