Where: Camden County, New Jersey (39.8° N, 75.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 56.3° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vincentown Formation (Rancocas Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Vincentown Fm of the Rancocas Gp. AGE: Paleocene, according to Cooke (1959); Danian, according to more recent sources. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Meek; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: F.B. Meek. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1959. Cenozoic echinoids of eastern United States. United States Geological Survey Professional Papers 321:1-106 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Hopkins]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155902: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Hemiaster stella Morton 1830 heart urchin | |
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