USGS 17731: Late/Upper Campanian, Delaware

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
cf. Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834
rare category
Crassatella cf. C. vadosa Morton
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Cyprimeria sp. Conrad 1864
rare category
Cyprimeria sp. (large)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
rare category
Cardium spp.
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Pycnodonte sp. (Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
rare category
Gryphaea sp. - owens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799
rare category
Turritella sp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Delaware
Coordinates: 39.5° North, 75.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.0° North, 45.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
*Period:Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Senonian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Campanian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Marshalltown
Lithology and environment
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Collection method comments: collected by C. W. Carter 1935-7
Metadata
Also known as:south side of Chesapeake and Delaware canal at station 50, Del.
Database number:6151
Authorizer:M. Kosnik Enterer:M. Kosnik
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-30 14:10:53 Last modified:2004-03-11 16:25:07
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

384. 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]