Blackwood Terrace (New Egypt Fm.) (Cretaceous of the United States)
Where: Gloucester County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 50.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: New Egypt Formation (Monmouth Group), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, gray, green sandstone
• gray-green poorly sorted clayey glaucontitic sand with small quartz pebbles
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 124937: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Demospongiae | |
Cliona cretacica demosponge | |
Polychaeta | |
Polychaeta indet. Grube 1850 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
"Exogyra cf. costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata, Gryphaeostrea vomer
"Exogyra cf. costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
Gryphaeostrea vomer Morton 1828 oyster | |
Agerostrea nasuta oyster | |
Cucullaea vulgaris clam | |
Trigonia mortoni clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Anchura pennata snail | |
Pyropsis sp. Conrad 1860 snail | |
Gyrodes abyssinus, "Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli
Gyrodes abyssinus moon snail
"Lunatia halli" = Euspira halli Gabb 1860 moon snail | |
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites ovatus Say 1820 ammonite | |
Belemnitella americana belemnite | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
Actinopteri | |
Anomoeodus (Pycnodus) phaseolus Hay 1899 | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark | |
Batoidea indet. ray | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Ischyodus sp. Egerton 1843 plownose chimaera | |
Echinoidea | |
"Catopygus williamsi" = Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi
"Catopygus williamsi" = Catopygus (Oolopygus) williamsi Clark 1907 sea urchin |