Where: Warren County, New Jersey (41.0° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° S, 70.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Stonehenge Formation (Beekmantown Group), Gasconadian (485.4 - 477.7 Ma)
• Originally given as upper Kittatinny Limestone; Kittatinny is now considered a supergroup including the Beekmantown, with Stonehenge being the upper limestone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Bridge and G.H. Girty. 1937. A redescription of Ferdinand Roemer's Paleozoic types from Texas. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 186(M):239-271 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119379: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Polygyrata sinistra n. gen. n. sp." = Ophileta polygyratus
"Polygyrata sinistra n. gen. n. sp." = Ophileta polygyratus Roemer 1849 snail |