Barclay Farms (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Cherry Hill

Where: Camden County, New Jersey (39.9° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 44.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Matawan Group, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, black claystone

• massive black micaceous clay weathering to chocolate brown

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 124929: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.02.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras sp. Meek 1876 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847 moon snail
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -