Bellmawr Landfill (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Camden County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 44.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Matawan Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• Merchantville, Woodbury, and Marshalltown Formations
Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, micaceous, brown, gray, green claystone
• light grayish-brown to greenish-gray micaceous clay
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124222: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda | |
Placenticeras placenta DeKay 1828 ammonite | |
Scaphites hippocrepis DeKay 1828 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella encrinoides turret shell | |
Avellana bullata snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Glycymeris mortoni clam | |
Agerostrea sp. Vialov 1936 oyster | |
Exogyra ponderosa oyster | |
Cymella bella clam | |
Legumen concentricum venus clam | |
"Cardium tenuistriatum" = Granocardium tenuistriatum
"Cardium tenuistriatum" = Granocardium tenuistriatum Whitfield 1885 cockle | |
Panopea decisa clam | |
Polychaeta | |
Malacostraca | |
Hoploparia sp. M'Coy 1849 clawed lobster | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark | |
Squalicorax pristodontis crow shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Ischyodus sp. Egerton 1843 plownose chimaera | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Actinopteri | |
Anomoeodus phaseolus Hay 1899 | |
Enchodus ferox Leidy 1855 |