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Ammonite fauna from the Wenonah Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of New Jersey

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 OX1 3PW, United Kingdom
W. A. Cobban
Affiliation:
U.S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 919, Box 25046, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
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Abstract

The Wenonah Formation of New Jersey yields an ammonite fauna comprising Menuites portlocki (Sharpe, 1855), Placenticeras placenta (DeKay, 1828), P. minor n. sp., Nostoceras (Nostoceras) puzosiforme n. sp., Nostoceras (Nostoceras) aff. N. colubriformis Stephenson, 1941, Didymoceras n. sp., Didymoceras spp., Parasolenoceras sp., Baculites cf. B. scotti Cobban, 1958, Baculites sp., and Trachyscaphites pulcherrimus (Roemer, 1841). Although commonly regarded as lower Maastrichtian by micropaleontologists, the presence of M. portlocki and T. pulcherrimus is an indicator of upper, but not uppermost, Campanian in a northwest European sense, and the presence of Baculites cf. B. scotti suggests uppermost middle Campanian in terms of the Western Interior provincial substages.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 95 - 110
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