ammonites
USGS 17727 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Material in place 500 ft west of Penn Central Railroad's Chesapeake and Delaware canal bridge, south side of canal

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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 6145: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 30.01.2000