Brandywine Lighthouse well, 230-240 ft [Kirkwood Fm]: Early/Lower Miocene, New Jersey
collected by McGee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Myliobatiformes
- Myliobatidae
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Myliobatis sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella cumberlandia
Conrad 1863
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Venus mercenaria
Linnaeus 1758
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| recombined as Mercenaria mercenaria | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Myidae
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Mya producta
Conrad 1838
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | New Jersey | County: | Cape May |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 75.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 70.7° West | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 15.98000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Kirkwood | ||||
| Local section: | Brandywine Lighthouse | Local bed: | 235 ft | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kirkwood Fm, which is in this section overlies "Jackson-age" deposits, and underlies the Cohansey Fm. AGE: Miocene in text; placed in Early Miocene by enter based on more recent dating and faunal composition. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 230-240 ft in well. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified siltstone |
| Secondary lithology: | shelly/skeletal poorly lithified claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silt, clay, and shells. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of figured specimens. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, siliciclastic. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | core,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Collectors: | McGee |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: T.C. McGee of the Artesian Well Drilling Company. REPOSITORY: New Jersey State Museum, ANSP. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Fairly antiquated nomenclature with species resolution assignments. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92755 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-11-28 08:07:25 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-11-28 08:07:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31286. | H. G. Richards and A. Harbison. 1944. Well-boring at Brandywine Lighthouse in Delaware Bay. Part I. - Geology and Macrofossils. Notulae Naturae 132:1-14 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |