Mantua Creek, Sewell (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 46.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mount Laurel Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic, pebbly sandstone

• indurated glaucontitic quartz sand with pebbles and limonite layers

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

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 124935: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.02.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona cretacica
Cliona cretacica demosponge
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Agerostrea falcata
Agerostrea falcata Morton 1827 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte mutabilis, Exogyra cancellata, "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella americana