Reedy Point Spoils (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: New Castle County, Delaware (39.6° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 51.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Mount Laurel Formation (Monmouth Group), Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, glauconitic, brown, green, red, white, silty, sandy quartzite

• Gray, green, white to red-brown, glauconitic , fine to medium silty quartz sand. Contains a macroinvertebrate fauna of well over a hundred species. This formation also contains a fair amount of shark material.

•l i thology and fos s i l s indi c a t e tha t i t wa s depos i t ed

•dur ing a s l ight r egr e s s ion

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. M. Lauginiger and E. F. Hartstein. 1983. A guide to fossil sharks, skates, and rays from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal area, Delaware. Open File Report - Delaware Geological Survey 21:1-63 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 126811: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 18.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
Cretolamna appendiculata pachyrhiza
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax kaupi, Squalicorax pristodontus
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
 Lamniformes - Carchariidae
"Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri
"Odontaspis samhammeri" = Carcharias samhammeri Cappetta and Case 1975 sand shark