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THE CRETACEOUS FOSSILS OF NEW JERSEY Part 2 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY fobn S. Keith, .&&&nt Cddr NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PALEONTOLOQY SE&IE8 Bureau of Geologg and Topography Kemble Widmer, State OeologIst THE CRETACEOUS POSSaS OF NEW JERSEY b HOBACE Q. BICHARDB, st d. A reviaion of the report on the UrstoMovr Petoontdogy of Nas Jsr- ssy by Stoart Weller and puWed by the QeologiCa Sway of New Jersey in 1907 as Voiame IS' of tha Paleontolop hies. BULLETIN #61 PmI1 QASTMPODA, SCAFHOPODA, NAUTZLOIDBla, A?XIKO@OIDEA, BXbBHNITlDdE, CRUSTAC- VEBTEBBATA and XISCELIANEOUB FO88W\ STATE OF Wwa JEBSEY DEPABTMENT OF GON8ERVATION snd ECONOMIC D-PMENT Trenton, N. J. 1m aqrhM 1991 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY '"The ChWum Fossils of New krsey," a sEandard work for both aluatcm and profcL?k4ond palaontologiss, has been out-of-print for somc h.Volume 1 was published in 1958 and vohnns 2 in 1962. Despite their age and their being long out of stodt, a slow but steady demand continues for these books, For sevaral years it hasbeen~fortheNew~C3eologicalSwey tonfstinvestigatorstoli~aodips#lbookdea2crs. This new pdating is hkded to otiminatr. this ilmllvb It is designed to satisfy rhc present-day demands and those in the near fUtPIC. AccdhgIy, the ~isanewpdntingandnetaacweditbn.Lackof fMd$for~mansthatcav~is~lctcand nomcnc~hasnotbccniqrdabd.1lishopGdthatthe second phting will llcvM&m me con- meds atid that fame funding may make possible a major misi~nand~~workontht~~~~of the Garden State. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY lj, S, Geological Snrrey \\'ashington, D. C. IJnirersity of Arkansas Fayet,te~ille,Arkansas Princeton lJliirersit,y Princeton, New Jersey Geological Surrey of Canada Ottal~a,Ontario, Canada Stat*: University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa lJnir,:rsity of Arizona Tucson, Arizona Willi:ims College \\'illiamsto~rn, AIassacliusetts Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia, Pennsylvania U. S. Geological Surrey \Vashington, D. C. Wagner Free Institute of Science Phil:~~lc:lphia,Pennsylvania Cornell University Ithaca, New York NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 1i:i~grme1,. liora, Chairnran .............................. Tenafl~ Jfark Anton ....................................... \\Test Ot~rallg~ Rolarrrl d~\\~ildc..................................... Briclg"011 Cllarlcs \ir. Engelhart1 ................................ Far IIills \Villialn A. IlaRat., .Tr. ............................. Sea Isle city ,l'ack hf. 1C;rne ......................................... l\filtlis011 \Vayn(: 11.3lcklnrray ............................... Asbury Park Ed~~ardC. Rose ....................................... Sea Girt Ok;, \'. Swisher. ................................ IIaclrlon 1Ieights Frank J. Valgrnti .................................. Xe~r\'ernon \Villiam E. \\laters ..................................... l'itman IIenry T. \Vietsma ..................................... JITyckoff NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY XR.I~EXXETH 11. L.HE\'ELINO,Director Ili~isionof Planning B; Development Sir: Transmitted, herewith, is Part I1 of Bulletin 61, The Cretaceous Fossils of h'eur Jersey. This, together with the already published Part I, will provide up-to-date references and descriptions of the fossils of the Cretaceous formations of the New Jersey Coastal Plain. Basic in- formation such as this is needed for the development of nat.ural re- sources (particularly water, oil and natural gas) where the occurrence of these resources is restricted to specific geologic formations. Tlie identification of fossils removed from core borings and drill holes per- mits the identification of specific formations at great depth 1)elow the surface. Although oil and natural gas hare not been found in New Jersey, there is increasing interest in the geologic conditions in the Coastal Plain. A11 authors were requested to follolv a specified, concise style in writing their descriptions of fossils. No attempt ~vasmade to change the minor variations in the general format because each author was con- sidered the espert best acquainted with the ~lescriptivestyle generally used by his colleagues in the same field. Respectfully submitted, KEMBLLY:WIDHEII State Geologist NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The practical problems of publishing and bind- ing rcquired the presentation of this work in two parts. 1';lrt 1 was completed in 1958 and is arail- ;~blofor snle by the Kew Jersey l%urcauof Geology ilt~dTopography. It was originally planned to repeat four plates (43 to 46) because they con- tainecl both gastropods and pelecypods. Elowever, ill tile i~~tercstof economy this was not done; t,l~eri:forc,it will he llcccssary to refer hack to I'art I for illustrations of certain species de- scril)ecl in this voll~rnc. The table of sl>ecies and ;I bi1)liography \vl~ichapply to hoth parts appear at the end of this volume. NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY TABLE OF COXTEN1'S Gastropoila ........ l-Iortree G . Richards and ILobert C. Iiamsdell .. 1 Scaphopoda ............................ Ilorace G . Richards .. 99 Xautiloids ................... .A. K . IIiller and 11 . 1" . Garner ..101 Ammonites ........................... .John B . Reesiile, Jr... 113 Belemnites .................................. J . A . Jeletzky ..139 Crustaeea ................................ IIenry B . Roberts ..163 ilp~endixA-Reptiles .................IIalsey \\'. Miller, Jr... 193 Appendix B-RIiseellaneons Fossi!s .......Horace G . Kicl~ards.. I97 Appendix C-New Cretaceous Invertebrate Fossils from Test Borings in Kern Jersey ...........llorace G . Richards ..199 Appendix D-Table Showing Distribution of Fossils .......................... 1Iorace G . Richards ..209 NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CRETACEOIJS QASTIIOl'ODS OF KE\\' JERSEY by Stuart \\Teller Reutsed a?~da~cg~it~~entod by I~~I<,~cEG. RICHARDS and ROBERTC. RAILSDELI, Fanrily I'le~~rotomariidae Pleurotomaria crotaloides (Norton) 18:34 Plate 47, Figure 2 Cirrus crot~~loir?cs,Aforton, 1834, Synop. 0%. Ilem. Crct. Gr. U. S., p. 49: pl. 19; fig. .5. Archiieetonicn Abbofti, Gnlih, 1661, Proe. Bcarl. Xat. Sci. I'hil. (1861), 1'. 321. (In part.) .Ilnrg,~rite/lnilbbotti, \\'liitfiel~l, 1692, p. 134, pl. li,figs. 12-15. Plevrotomariu crobaloirles, Pilsbry, 169G, p. 10, 1'1. 1, figs. 1-3. I'ler~roto~t~ariucrotuloideu, \\'cller, 1907, p. 665, p1. 75, figs. 7-9. Descriptio?t.-"Shell of mctlinm size, suhdiseoid with ;I vcq' IOU., ~leljressed-eonrexspire and nearly flat base; rolutions four or five, rather slender, coiled one belo~rthe other, t,l~eirupper surfaces rounded, with deep sut,llre line? lreelcrl on the i~cril~l~cryin the cast: ant1 very de- ~irmse"dconrex on tlre lo\ver side hct\veen the abi~~pt,nio~lerate sizcrl i~mbilicusand tile onter angle; margin of the nmhilicos abruptly ~.onnderlall11 tllc opening less then one-third of t,he entire dia~neterof t,lie shell ;~tany give11 point; upper surface of t.lle rollitions marked by closely arranged, but distinctly marked transrersc nn~lnlat,ions,xlrieh extend from the subure outxard to abont one-third of the ~vidthof the ro:lition, an11 alqlear to hare been rlirecterl sligl~t,lyback\vard in tlleir coirrse; surface texture of the shell eo~rrposcrlof fine spiral lilies and finer trlnrs\.ersc lines; section of the rollition narronr ovate, three-fifths as high as wide, rotrn<lerl on tlit: inner ell11 an11 acelitc on the outer n~argin." (\\'hitfield.) l'he (lirnerlsions of alr internal east irre: l~eigl~t 18mm.; maximum diameter, 341nrn. Ile~~~ut~k.s.-Thespecies is not ;I very ~O~I~III~IIorrc, an~l t,he intcrrlal casts irsl~ally(lo not retain thc surface markings so clearly as \\'l~itfielrl has figore11 tlrenr, sonic specimens even being nln~ostciit,ircly sriro~~tlr. Rn?~geill. Xero dcrso!/- JI'I'. LAUREL-NhVESIKI<: 39A, 40, 47, 53 IIORXERSrPO\VX: (1) Hear lledfortl Il'rcrrgc ot~tsirleil'ern Jersey- Alabama, Tesas I1ype.-(P. o.ufaluides) Erie, :\i:rllamw3 AKSP 16ii(i; (A. ~~bbofti) &Ii~llicaIIill, A'. .J. :\KSI' ISiSI NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 2 CRETACEOUS FOSSILS Pleurotomaria tintonensis Whitfield 1892 Plate 46, Figure 7. Pleuroto~naria? tintonensis Il'hitfield, 1892, p. 178, pl. 22, figs. 6-9. This species was described by Whitfield from the "lliddle Marl" at Tinton Falls, Kew Jersey. It is almost certainly a synonym of P. erota- loides (Morton). T#pe.-Tinton Falls, N. J. AMNEI 10682. Pleurotomaria woolmani Pilsbry 1911 Plate 47, Figure 6. Plenroto,r~nriacvoiuloides illorton, 1896, I'roc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. (1896), p. 10: pl. 1, figs. 1-3.not of Norton. Pleirrotomarin ~oooln~aniPilsbrp, 1911, Proe. A4cad. Nat. Sci. Phila. (1911), p. 535. Description.-"Shell (cast) rather cliscoidal, the spire low-conic, base fl;ittenc(l and vcry broaclly ~imbilic;~tecl,\TThorls slowly increasing, very convex, separated by deep sutures; the last whorl strongly convex on the upper surface, thence sloping outward to the periphery, which is qnite convex again, and ncar the hasc of the whorl. Rase disl.inetly flattened, though conr7ex. Umbiliens somervhat exceeding one-third the total diameter, broad, deep and perspcctinc, tllc sutures within it strong- ly impressed. Diameter 7 cm. ; width of last whorl at aperture (measured belor\-) 26 mm. ; alt. of same about 19 mm." (Pilsbry) R11.ngc in Xeio Jersc!/- MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 53 Type,Nullica Hill, X. J. ANSP 1625. Family Patellidae Patella tentorium Morton 1834 Plate 47, Fig. 1 Potclla tentorinst, Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Kem. Cret. Gr. li. S., p. 50. 111. 1, Az. 11. Helcion P tentoriwn, Whitfield, 1892, p. 153, pl. 19, figs. 6-8. Patella tentorium, Weller, 1907, p. 663, pl. 75, figs. 5-6. Descn'ption.-"Shell small, orbicular
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