USGS 17708 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as north side of Chesapeake and Delaware canal at station 47+500, Del.

Where: Delaware (39.5° N, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 45.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Marshalltown Formation, Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Reposited in the USGS

• collected by C. W. Carter 1935-7

Primary reference: J. P. Owens, J. P. Minard, N. F. Sohl and F. James Mello. 1970. Stratigraphy of the outcropping post-Magothy Upper Cretaceous formations in Southern New Jersey an Northern Delmarva peninsula, Delaware and Maryland. USGS Professional Paper 674:1-60 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6150: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 30.01.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium spp.
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1835 oyster
Gryphaea sp. - owens