Shiloh Marl: Burdigalian, New Jersey
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Tapiridae
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Tapiravus validus
(Marsh 1871)
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Tedford and Hunter 1984 | |||||||||
only specimen from this unit (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Delphinapterus lacertosus
Cope 1868
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Cope 1868 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Delphinapterus hawkinsii
Cope 1868
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Cope 1868 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Squalodontidae
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Macrophoca atlantica n. gen., n. sp.
Leidy 1856
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Leidy 1856 | 3 specimens | ||||||||
invalid subgroup of Squalodontidae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Platanistidae
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Zarhachis velox n. sp.
Cope 1869
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeter antiquus
Leidy 1853
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Rhoads 1903 | |||||||||
synonym of Physeter vetus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Belosphys atropius
(Cope 1868)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Belosphys stenus
(Cope 1868)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Belosphys conradi
(Leidy 1852)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Tretosphys uraeus n. sp.
Cope 1869
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Cope 1869 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Ixacanthus coelospondylus
Cope 1868
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Cope 1868 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Belosphys spinosus
(Cope 1868)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx lima n. sp.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
recombined as Apalone lima | ||||||||||
AMNH, holotype fragment of costal plate | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Chelone grandaevus n. sp.
Leidy 1861
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Leidy 1851 | |||||||||
recombined as Puppigerus grandaevus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Thecachampsa sericodon
Cope 1867
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Elopiformes
- Phyllodontidae
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Phyllodus curvidens
Marsh 1869
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Aulopiformes
- Enchodontidae
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Phasganodus gentryi n. sp.
Cope 1875
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Enchodus gentryi | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Perciformes
- Sparidae
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Crommyodus irregularis
(Cope 1869)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
original and current combination Phacodus irregularis | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Scombriformes
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Sphyraena speciosa
Leidy 1856
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Leidy 1856 | |||||||||
recombined as Sphyraenodus speciosus | ||||||||||
Sphyraenodus silovianus n. sp.
Cope 1875
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Actinopteri
- Pycnodontiformes
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Phacodus irregularis n. gen., n. sp.
Cope 1869
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Cope 1869 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Odontaspidida
- Isuridae
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Oxyrhina xiphiodon
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Oxyrhina minuta
Agassiz 1843
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Aetobatidae
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Aetobatis sp.
(Blainville 1816)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
original and current combination Aetobatus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Plinthicus stenodon
Cope 1869
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Zygobatis sp.
Agassiz 1838
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
synonym of Rhinoptera | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Dasyatidae
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Agabelus porcatus n. gen., n. sp.
Cope 1875
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Dasyatidae | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis amblodon
Cope 1869
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Squalomorphii
- Hexanchidae
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Notidanus primigenius
Agassiz 1835
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Notorhynchus primigenius | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Odontaspididae
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Lamna cuspidata
Agassiz 1843
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Araloselachus cuspidatus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Lamna elegans
Agassiz 1838
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
synonym of Otodus macrotus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Otodus appendiculatus
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata | ||||||||||
Carcharodon angustidens
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens | ||||||||||
Carcharodon megalodon
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
recombined as Otodus megalodon | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hemigaleidae
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Hemipristis serra
Agassiz 1835
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Galeocerdidae
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Galeocerdo egertonii
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Galeocerdo aduncus
(Agassiz 1835)
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Sphyrnidae
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Zygaena prisca
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Cope 1875 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Cumberland |
Coordinates: | 39.3° North, 75.2° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 39.5° North, 71.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Barstovian |
Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
Age range of interval: | 20.44000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 20.3 to 20.0 Ma (Sr isotope) | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Kirkwood | Member: | Alloway Clay | ||
Local section: | Krkwd | Local bed: | 2 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: age after Sugarman et al. 1993 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | marl |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:overlies Asbury Park Mbr. |
Metadata
Database number: | 18587 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2019-04-04 12:54:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35435. | E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
13605 | E. D. Cope. 1868. Synopsis of the extinct Mammalia of New Jersey. Geology of New Jersey 739-742 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12333 | E. D. Cope. 1869. Third contribution to the fauna of the Miocene period of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21(11):6-13 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
36147 | E. D. Cope. 1869. Description of some extinct fishes previously unknown. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 12:310-317 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12635 | E. D. Cope. 1875. Synopsis of the Vertebrata of the Miocene of Cumberland County, New Jersey. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 14:361-364 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/E. Vlachos] | |
14442 | ETE | O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
12192 | J. Leidy. 1851. [Descriptions of a number of fossil reptiles and mammals] . Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 5:325-328 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
14981 | J. Leidy. 1856. Notices of remains of extinct vertebrated animals of New Jersey, collected by Prof. Cook of the State Geological Survey under the direction of Dr. W. Kitchell. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:220-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
28441 | S. N. Rhoads. 1903. The Mammals of Pennsylvania and New Jersey: A Biographic, Historic and Descriptive Account of the Furred Animals of Land and Sea, Both Living and Extinct, Known to Have Existed in These States. 1-266 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
63009 | P. J. Sugarman, K. G. Miller, J. P. Owens and M. D. Feigenson. 1993. Strontium-isotope and sequence stratigraphy of the Miocene Kirkwood Formation, southern New Jersey. Geological Society America Bulletin 105:423-436 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
3383 | R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |