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Lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) ammonites from the Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

W. J. Kennedy  and
W. A. Cobban
W. J. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Geological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford 0X 1 3PW, UK
W. A. Cobban
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 919, Box 25046, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
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Abstract

The Merchantville Formation of New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware yields a distinctive assemblage of upper lower Campanian ammonites: Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) sp., Pseudoschloenbachia cf. P. chispaensis Adkins, 1929, Placenticeras placenta (DeKay, 1828), Texanites (Texanites) sp., Menabites (Delawarella) delawarensis (Morton, 1830c), M. (D.) vanuxemi (Morton, 1830c), Menabites (Bererella) sp., Submortoniceras punctatum Collignon, 1948, S. uddeni Young, 1963, Cryptotexanites paedomorphicus n. gen. and sp., Glyptoxoceras sp., Chesapeakella nodatum n. gen. and sp., Baculites haresi Reeside, 1927, and Scaphites (Scaphites) hippocrepis (DeKay, 1828) III of Cobban, 1969. Elements of the fauna occur in the Gulf Coast and Western Interior regions of the United States, in Western Europe, and in Madagascar and provide a basis for correlation at this level.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 5 , September 1993 , pp. 828 - 849
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