Where: Cape May County, New Jersey (39.4° N, 75.0° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 41.2° N, 65.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Shiloh Marl Member (Kirkwood Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
• 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 the depths of 500 and 600 ft.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Collections reposited in ANSP and USNM
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59752: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Mitrella laevis snail | |
"Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicata" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Turritella cumberlandia, "Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
Turritella cumberlandia Conrad 1863 turret shell
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte thomasii Conrad 1855 clam
Astarte distans Conrad 1862 clam | |
"Phacoides crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata
"Phacoides crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata Conrad 1840 clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam |