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THE CRETACEOUS FOSSILS OF NEW JERSEY 

Part 1 

NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

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Jim Plab, OoPemx 


PAIBONTOMMYk4BRIEB ' 

Bureau of Qeology and Tapography 

Meradith E. Johnson, &ate Geologist 

THE CRETACEOUS FOSSaS OF NEW TERsEy 

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HOEACE (f. BICHABDS, st d. 

A revkion of the report on the Crstacsew Pdsartology of New 

Jansy by Fltoart W ar and pubW by the Oeological B my of 

New Jersey in 1907 ss Volnme IV of the Pdeontology Series. 


FOREWORD 

'The Cbetamous Fossils of New Jersey," a sCandatd 

woldr for both amatcm and profesbnal paleontologists, 

hap been out-of-print for some time. Volume 1 was 

p u M 

in 1958 and volmne 2 in 1%2. Despite their 

age and their being long ont of stock, a slow but steady 

demand oontiaues for these books. For sevd yeam it 

has been necessary far the New Jersey Geological Swey 

to nfea investigatm to libmb and used book dealers. 

This new printiag is intended to elimbte this 

iuconvcnience. It is designed to sa&j the present-day 

deanands and those in the near future. Accodhgly, the 

missue is a new prbthg and not a new edition. Lack of 

funds for revision means that coverage is incomplete snd 

~tunhasnot~npdatedItish~ttiatthe 

second ptinting will nevatheess save contemporary 

needs and that htun funding may make possible a major 

revision and updating work on the Cretaceot~~ fossils of 

the Garden State. 


CO-AUTHORS 

U. S. Geological Survey 

Washington, D. C. 

California Exploration Company 

San Francisco, California 

Princeton University 

Princeton, Nen. Jersey 

Geological Survey of Canada 

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 

State University of Iowa 

Iowa City, Iowa 

Kansas Geological Survey 

Lawrence, Kansas 

Williams College 

Williamstown, Massachusetts 

Academy of Natural Sciences and 

University of Pennsylvania 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

U. S. Geological Survey 

Washington, D. C. 

Wagner Free Institute of Science 

Philatlelphia, Pennsylvania 

Cornell University 

Itliaca, New York 


COUNCIL OF THE 

DIVISION OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 

Eugene L. Lora, Chairman .............................. Tenafly 

Mark Anton ........................................ Westfield 

Harry L. Derby .................................... Rlontclair 

Charles W. Engelhard ................................ Far Hills 

William A. Haffert, Jr. ............................. .Sea Isle City 

Jack hl. Kane ...................................... Maplc~vood 

Wayne D. McMurray .............................. .Asbury Park 

Edward C. Rose ....................................... .Sea Girt 

Belford Seabrook ....................................... Alloway 

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George F. Smith :. .Metuchen 

Frank J. Valgenti ..................................... .Madison 

William E. Waters .................................... Woodbury 

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Ma. THEODORE J. LANQAN, Director 

Division of Planning & Development 

Sir: 

I am transmitting with this letter a much-needed report describing 

the fossils which occur in strata of Cretaceous age underlying the coastal 

plain of New Jersey. Those who seek water-or perhaps oil or natural 

gas--from deep wells, know that these fossils provide the key by which 

these strata can he recognized even though hundreds of feet beneath 

the surface and many miles down-dip from the point where the same 

strata are exposed at the surface. 

Someone may ask, why mention oil and gas since neither of these 

fuels have been found in New Jersey. To that I should like to answer 

that large quantities of both oil and gas are now being obtained from 

wells 30 miles and more off the coast of Louisiana and Texas and to the 

writer this is the logical place to prospect for the same fuels off New 

Jersey. The increasing demands for water in our shore communities 

also require the drilling of deep wells and the fossils obtained from these 

are highly important in determining how deep the driller must go to 

reach an aquifer. 

A11 authors were requested to follow a specified concise style in writ- 

ing their descriptions of fossils. Nevertheless, it will be noted that there 

is considerable variation in style and no attempt has been made in edit- 

ing manuscript to eliminate this; first, because it was felt that each ex- 

pert was best acquainted with the descriptive style generally used by his 

colleagues in the same field; and secondly, because it was felt that any 

request for drastic revision by the authors would be an unwarranted 

additional burden upon these meqwho had already contributed so gen- 

erously of their time and expert knowledge. 

A Geological Survey is known by t,he work it does. Although local 

recognition may he won because of aid on specific problems, broader 

recognition comes only from its published works-particularly those of 

this type which provide the fundamental information upon which many 

investigations of the state's natural resources must depend. I am there- , 

fore happy in the knowledge that publication of this report will be a 

credit to all concerned as well as contributing to the economic well-being 

of the state. 

Respectfully submitted, 

NEW JERSEY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 

MEREDITH E. JOHNGON 

State Geologist

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

PAGE 

Introduction ............................ .Horace G. Richards. . 1 

Historical Review of Previous Work on the 

Cretaceous of New Jersey ............. .Robert C. Ramsdell. . 3 

Previous Work on Cretaceous Fossils from the Atlantic and 

Gulf Coastal Plain other than New Jersey. .Horace G. Richards. .ll 

Cretaceous Formations of New Jersey. ...... .Horace G. Richards. .l4 

List of Cretaceous Fossil Localities in 

New Jersey. .......................... .Horace G. Richards. .21 

Introduction to ~~sterna'tic Sections. ....... .Horace G. Richards. .27 

Porifers ...................................... .B. F. Howell. .29 

Coelenterata ................................ .John W. Wells. .33 

Annelida ..................................... .B. F. Howell. .37 

Echinoidesof New Jersey and Adjacent Regions. .C. Wythe Cooke. .45 

Brachiopoda ............................ .Horace G. Richards. .55 

Pelecypoda ............................. .Horace G. Richards. .59 

PART I1 

Gastropods ............ .Horace G. Richards and Robert C. Ramsdell 

Scaphopoda ................................. .Horace G. Richards 

Nautiloids .......................... .A. K. Miller and H. F. Garner 

Ammonites ................................. .John B. Reeside, Jr. 

Belemnites ....................................... J. A. Jeletzky 

Crustacea .................................... .Henry B. Roberts 

Appendix A-Reptiles ...................... .Halsey W. Miller, Jr. 

Appendix B-Miscellaneous Fossils ............ .Horace G. Richards 

Appendix C-Table showing distribution 

of fossils ............................... Horace G. Richards 

Bibliography .................................................. 


It was originally planned to publish this report 

in a single volume. However, for practical 

reasons it lias been necessary to issue the work in 

two parts. This has created certain difficulties in 

regard to the plates. A few of the illustrations of 

species described in Part I appear in Part 11. 

Furthermore, certain of the plates which include 

both Gastropods and Pelecypods will be repeated 

in both parts (Plates 43 to 46). The table of 

species and a bibliography will appear at the end 

of Part 11. 


'

INTRODUCTION 

by Horace G. Richards 

Weller's Cretaceous Paleontology of New Jersey has been out of 

print for a number of years and is frequently difficult to obtain through 

second-hand hook dealers. Since this book has a wide use among paleontologists, 

both amateur and professional in New Jersey and elsewhere, 

it seemed very desirable that the book should be reprinted. In the 

interval since 1907 a great deal of work has been done on Cretaceous 

paleontology and therefore certain revisions in nomenclature, stratigraphy 

and correlation are necessary. Furthermore, many of the notes 

on the relative abundance of certain species arc based on localities no 

longer available. For these reasons, a simple reprinting would be 

unsatisfactory and misleading. 

The present revision is an outgrowth of a cooperative program 

arranged between the New Jersey Geological Survey and the Academy 

of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. It has been necessary to define 

certain limits to the project. Many chapters have been completely 

rewritten by experts in the particular fields, while others consist largely 

of Weller's original description with the synonomies, remarks and 

distribution data brought up to date. Further details about the scope 

of the respective chapters will he found elsewhere. (Page 27.) 

Acknowledgments: Although most of the Cretaceous species of 

New Jersey are represented by specimens (types or otherwise) at the 

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia or the New Jersey State 

Museum in Trenton, N. J., material has also been consulted at the 

United States National Museum, Washington, D. C., Rutgers University, 

New Brunswick, N. J., Princeton University, Princeton, N. J., 

American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y., Wagner Free 

Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pa., Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 

Md., Dela~vare Geological Survey, Newark, Del., thc University of 

Chicago, Chicago, Ill., and the Peabody Nuseum of Yale University, 

New Haven, COM. TO a11 these institutions our thanks are tendered. 

Next, the editor wishes to express his sincere thanks to Mcredith E. 

Johnson, State Geologist of New Jersey, whose interest and understanding 

of the difficult task of editing such a lengthy volume, written 

by some eleven authors, has been of great help and encouragement 

throughout the course of the work. Next, he wishes to express his gratitude 

to the various contrihuitors. listed on page ii, who have generously 

given of their time to help make this revision a success. 

Financial aid for the project has been received from the New Jersey 

Qeological Survey, the American Philosophical Society,' the Academy 

of Natural Sciences (Coastal Plain Fund) and the University of Pennsylvania2. 

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1 Johnson Fund Grant. 

1 Faoulb Research Grnnt 

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2 CRETACEOUS FOSSILS 

It is impossible to acknowledge all the collectors-students, profes- 

sionals and amateurs-who have supplied specimens for use in connec- 

tion with this revision. In many cases, important material has thus been 

added to the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Among 

those who must be mentioned in this connection are Louis R. Beck, Jr., 

Larry Buehler, Paul Cresthull, Charles Dilks, Robert Doyle, Albert 

Greenberg, Stephen Goldberg, Theodore Hesser, Jr., Leonard Johnson, 

Virginia Lippincott, Frank Markewicz, Halsey W. Miller, Jr., James 

L. Ruhle, and Stephen Wien. 

The photographs of the corals, echinoids, nautiloids, ammonites, and 

belemnites have been prepared by the authors of the respective chap- 

ters. The remaining photographs were taken at the Academy of Natural 

Sciences by Louis R. Beck, A. Delwin Warden and Stephen F. Percival. 

A few of the pictures were retouched by Arthur Bink. 

Assistance in preparing the manuscript for publication has been 

given by James L. Ruhle, Juliet Reed and Joseph Camperson. 

Since it was necessary to have the photographs taken at different 

times by different photographers, it has unfortunately been impossible 

to have the illustrations of uniform magnification, and frequently it has 

been necessary to have pictures of related species on different plates. 

This is regretted, but n7\'as made necessary by financial limitations of the 

project. 


HISTORICAL REVIEW OF PREVIOUS WORK 

ON THE CRETACEOUS OF NEW JERSEY' 

by Robert C. Ramsdell 

This chapter ie not intended to be a complete summary of previous 

work on the New Jersey Cretaeeous. Only the more important refer- 

ences are cited. ' Except for a few pertinent works, articles of a strictly 

paleontological nature are not discussed, although many such papers 

are listed in the Bibliography. 

The sediments and fossils of the New Jersey Coastal Plain were 

among the first to attract the attention of early students of American 

geology. Many considered the deposits to be of alluvial origin, but 

others recognized their marine origin. By 1820 interest in these forma- 

tions and their contained fossils was widespread. Among the early 

workers were William Maclure, Charles Lyell, Samuel G. Morton, 

Timothy A. Conrad, William Gabb and others. Their writings appeared 

chiefly in the publications of the American Philosophical Society, the 

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and in the American 

Jmrnal of Science. The collections of many of these writers are pre- 

served in the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Un- 

fortunately the exact locality 'and horizon from which many of these 

specimens were collected were not recorded and their labels read merely 

'LCretaeeous, New Jersey." 

Many early attempts were made to correlate the deposits of the New 

Jersey Coastal Plain with those in other regions. Finch (1824) at- 

tempted to show that the sediments were "contemporaneous with the 

newer secondary and tertiary formations" of certain European areas. 

Vanuxem (1828) considered the New Jersey deposits to be Upper Cre- 

taceous. Morton (1830) correlated them with Lower Cretaceous sedi- 

ments; however, he later (1832) recognized the presence of Upper Cre- 

taceous fossils. Lyell (1845) correlated the New Jersey Cretaceous for- 

mations with the divisions between the Gault and Maestrichtian of Eu- 

rope. He also considered Morton's uppermost division of the New 

Jersey Cretaeeous to be Eocene. Conrad (1848) similarly suggested 

that the upper portions of the greensands3 possibly were of Tertiary 

age. 

Morton's Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group 

of The United States was published in 1834. The Tertiary forms were 

described by the same author in 1835. A large number of the fossils de- 

scribedin these articles were collected in New Jersey. These publications 

were the most important contributions to New Jersey paleontology until 

Whitfield's monographs appeared in 1885 and 1892. 

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1 This chapter is adapted from Johnson and Richards (1952). and Groat, Orpmist 

and Richards (1954). 

ZAn excellent hintorical account of the early studies on the Coastal Plaim of New Jersey 

is contained in Clark. Bag= and Shattuck (1898). 

a Tho green color of these sediments in derived chiefly from the presence of large amount. 

01 the min.r.1 g1au.onit.. 


4 CRETACEOUS FOSSILS. . %, 3 a 

Rogers was commissioned to study the geology of New Jersey in 

1834. His first report (1836) and.& "Final Report" (1840) contained 

a general classification of the Cretaceous and Tertiary strata of the 

state. Except that he considered the clays telie onkhe marls, his reports 

gnerally were accurate. Although his classification did not contain..the 

details now recognized, it did include the more evident main divisions. 

He included within the Cretaceous: "the blue plastic, sandy and micace- 

ous clays, with plant remains; greensand or marl; yellow granular lime- 

stone, sometimes siliceous; yellow ferruginous sandstone and, conglo- 

merate" (Greacen, 1941, after Rogers, 1836). He called this entire 

sequence the "Greensand Series." His Tertiary series contained "a 

bluish or lead-colored clay with sand and some calcareous marl." 

The greensand or marl belt of New Jersey was recognized early as 

being exceptionally fertile. Rogers was very interested in both the 

greensand and limestone (or limesand) as fertilizers. He included many 

details in both his "Preliminary Report" and "Final Report" on how 

best to use these materials. The marl deposits were mined extensively 

and the industry expanded rapidly, reaebing its climax in the latter 

part of the nineteenth century. Most of these pits now are filled or so 

overgrown that many of the previous exposures no longer are available. 

Some of these greensands currently are used in the manufacture of water 

softener. 

In 1854 Cook undertook a detailed study of the Cretaceous and 

Tertiary sediments of the state. He included these formations in three 

major divisions to which he applied the names: "Plastic Clay'' (oldest), 

"Clay Marls" and "Marls" (youngest). Because of the large number 

of pits in the "Marl" series associated with the flourishing marl indug- 

try, Cook probably had an unexcelled opportunity to study these forma- 

tions.' The resultant subdivision of this series was more detailed than 

that of the other divisions. His classification, based on the lithologic 

and economic characters of the strata, is shown in Table 1. 

Cook's Geology of New Jersey, published in 1868, was a very com: 

preheusive work and contained an excellent and generally accurateae- 

count of the Cretaceous and Tertiary formations of the state. This 

volume also contained a faunal list of the New Jersey invertebrates 

compiled by Conrad. 

From the study of well-drilling records Cook (1883) concludedthat 

the upper part of the Upper Marl mas Eocene ; however, he: was uncerl 

tain as to the age of the lower and middle portions of the Upper Marl. 

He considered the Lower and Middle Marls to be Cretaceous. I n the An- 

nual Report for 1886 Cook included all except the upper part of the 

Upper Marl in the Upper Cretaceous. 

Under Cook's direction a study of the fossils of the Cretaceous and 

Tertiary strata of the state was undertaken by Whitfield. The results 

of this study were published in two volumes, the first in 1885, and the 

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'Detailed records of the marl pits and chemical analyses of the various marl, and d the 

limcamd were Included in the Annvsl Reports of Stars Geolo~;st until 1897. 


: '- BISTORICAL REVIEW 5 

.sdcondin-1892:. No he~:collections were made by Whitfield and he was 

dependent mainly upon the collections of the State Surveyand those 

of ''Rutgem Callege!'. and of the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

PhiladelphiaiBeOause no differentiation of thestrata comprising the 

"Clay Marls" had been made in these early collections, the true stratigraphic 

position of many of the specimens was uncertain. The specimen8 

with which Whitfield had to work often were poorly preserved and 

werdgenerally.few in number, the type specimen often being the only 

representative of a particular species. 

. . 

Clark began'his investigations of the Nem Jersey Coastal Plain in 

1891. Fe~iSed similar' stratigraphic divisions as Cook, hut he suhsti- 

tutedgeographic names derived from their type localities instead of the 

previously used lithologic equivalents. His classification (Clark, Bagg 

and Shattuck, 1897) of the Cretaceous, modified from earlier studies, is 

alga' given in Table 1. 

Beginning in 1894 Knapp spent several years doing detailed map- 

ping of the ,Cretaceous and Tertiary formations and in revising earlier 

maps a d correlations. His work served as the basis of the present map- 

pingof these formations as they appear on the present State Geological 

Map. Bnappfirst applied most of the currently used formational names 

of the Matawan group. In 1904 Kummel and Knapp presented a report 

on the New Jersey clays in which they interpreted the Cretaceous and 

Tertiary formations as shown in Table 1. 

On the basis of floral evidence Clark (1904) considered the Raritan 

to he Albian in age and the Cliffmood (i.e., Magothy) to be Cenomanian. 

Weller's extensive report on the Cretaceous paleontology of the 

state appeared in 1907. His stratigrahic interpretations, given in Tables 

1 and 2 are held valid today except that a Tertiary age has been estah- 

lished for .the Hornerstown, Vincentown and Manasquan formations. 

Weller noted that the Wenonah sand was readily distinguished lithologi- 

cally from the overlying Mount Laurel in Monmouth County, but that 

further south the two formations were almost indistinguishable. He also 

thought it impossible to make a faunal distinction between the Mount 

Laurel and the overlying Navesink. These observations are considered 

valid today. 

The report contained a detailed discussion of the New Jersey Cre- 

taceous invertebrates. Weller was the first to critically analyze this 

fauna. This analysis led him to the conclusion that two major faunal 

divisions could he recognized ; these were designated the "Ripleyian" 

(lower) and " Jerseyian" (upper) faunas. The latter now is considered 

to be of Tertiary age. Weller's studies indicated that the Ripleyian 

fauna in New Jersey was a 

"complex assemblage of organisms with two or more distinct 

facies which were doubtless associated with different environ- 

mental conditions" (Weller, 1907, p. 180). 



In considering the ages of the formations Weller suggested that the 

evidence supplied by the fauna of the Raritan was 

"too meager to he of practical use in correlation, and the eor- 

relation of that formation must rest upon the evidence of the 

fossil plants" (Weller, 1907, pp. 183-184). 

On the basis of the invertebrates he correlated the Magothy through 

the Tinton inclusive with the Senonian of Europe; the Hornerstown, 

Vincentown and Manasquan were correlated with the lower Danian 

(Maestrichtian). 

"The Geology of New Jersey," a general summary of the geology 

of the state, was written by Lewis and Kummel in 1915 mainly to ex- 

plain the State Geological Map (1910-1912). This report as revised and 

rewritten by Kummel in 1940, contained a general description of the 

lithology, fauna and geologic history of the Coastal Plain sediments. 

Several editions of the map have been published with minor changes, 

the latest in 1950. 

Mansfield's work on the New Jersey greensands was stimulated by 

the need for additional sources of potash during World War I. This 

study of the marl pits and well records was made by the United States 

Geological Survey in cooperition with the Geological Survey of New 

Jersey. The maps accompanying the report (Mansfield 1922) showed 

. the areal distribution of the greensands superimposed on the topogra- 

phy. These maps were compiled by Knapp. 

Until 1928 the Hornerstown, Vincentown and Manasquan gener- 

ally had been considered as late Upper Cretaceous in age. In that year, 

however, Cooke and Stephenson on the basis of faunal and lithologic 

evidence, established the Eocene age of these formations. Although 

some writers assert a Paleocene age for the Hornentown and Vincen- 

town, most American workers agree at least with the Tertiary age.' 

After studying the bryozoans of the Vincentown, Canu and Bassler 

(1933) maintained an Upper Cretaceous age for the Hornerstown and 

Vincentown. Greacen (1941), concluded that the evidence for an early 

Eocene age of the Vincentown as indicated by most of its fauna, out- 

weighed the evidence for a Cretaceous age as indicated by the bryozoans 

alone. 

Stephenson et al. (1942) correlated the outcropping Cretaceous 

formations of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain and Trane-Pecos 

Texas. The Raritan mas correlated with the Cenomanian of Europe ; 

the Magothy with the lower Senonian (Coniacian) ; the Merchantville 

with the middle Senonian (Santonian) ; the Woodbury, Ehglishtown, 

Marshalltown and Wenonah with the upper Senonian (Campanian) ; 

and the Mount Laurel, Navesink and Red Bank (including the Tinton) 

with the lower Maestrichtian. 

In discussing the aquifers of Middlesex County, Barksdale et al. 

'Severnl recent papera ooneernlng ths cxad Tertian asc of these formatips hare bean 

written. Since the prcacnt report is smrrrned with the Cretaceous, these articles arc not 

disruased here. , 


HISTORICAL REVIEW 7 

(1943) first applied names to the sand members of the Raritan. In the 

same year Richards described several new species of invertebrates from 

the Raritan (Richards, 1943). He also discussed the subsurface geology 

of the Atlantic Coastal Plain and he first reeorded the presence of 

Lower Cretaceous nonmarine sediments (Potomac group) in New 

Jersey in well samples from Salem, New Jersey. ' Shell fragments and 

foraminifera from the Englishtomn also were reported. This was the 

first record of fossils from this formation. 

Spangler and Peterson (1950) discussed the geology of the Coastal 

Plain of New Jersey and adjacent states southward through Virginia. 

A large part of the article concerned New Jersey. These authors reach- 

ed three main conclusions rgarding the Cretaceous of New Jersey: (I) 

that the Matawan and bfonmouth groups should be reduced to the rank 

of formations and the various formations within these groups should 

be reduced to members; (2) that the Mount Laurel should be included 

in the Matawan rather than in the Monmouth; and (3) that the Raritan 

is both upper Lower Cretaceous (Albian) and basal Upper Cretaceous 

,(Cenomanian). (See Table 2.) 

Johnson and Richards (1952) critically reviewed the New Jersey 

section of the above paper. These writers maintained the validity of 

the Matawan and hfonmouth as groups and the Merchantville, Wood- 

bury, etc. aa formations; believed that the Mount Laurel is the basal 

portion of the Monmouth group ; and reaffirmed the Late Cretac



PREVIOUS WORK ON CRETACEOUS INVERTEBRATE FOS- 

SILS FROM THE ATLANTIC AND GULF COASTAL PLAIN 

OTHER THAN NEW JERSEY 


No attempt mill he made to give a detailed review of the Cretaceous 

paleontology and stratigraphy of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. 

This section will merely list a few references for the various areas be- 

tween Georges Bank and Texas so that the interested reader can find 

further information on the presence and correlation of Cretaceous in- 

vertebrate fossils. 

Georges Ba&. Stephenson (1936) has discussed the mollusks from 

several dredgings on Georges Bank and the Banquereau (off Nova Sco- 

tia). Correlations are suggested with formations of New Jersey. 

New England. Very few Cretaceous fossils have been found in New 

England. A few from Marthas Vineyard are listed by Stephenson 

(Woodworth and Wigglesworth, 1934) and are correlated with some 

part of the Matawan group of New Jersey. 

Long Island. There are few Cretaceous outcrops on Long Island, 

although numerous occurrences have been reported f rom the subsurface. 

At present it isonly possible to subdivide the Cretaceous into the Raritan 

and the post-Raritan. A few fossils-plant and mollusk-are listed by 

Fuller (1914, p. 78). 

I . Delaware. Exposures of the Upper Cretaceous deposits of Delaware 

are largely limited to those along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal; 

the Lower Cretaceous deposits contain only a few plant remains. Many 

of the invertebrates common in the Cretaceous of New Jersey also occur 

along the canal and not a few were originally described from Delaware. 

Gardner (1916) in her report on the Cretaceous mollusks of Maryland, 

discussed many records from the canal, while Stephenson et a1 (1932) 

in the Guidebook for the 16th International Geological Congress gave 

several geological sections and lists of fossils. Carter (1937) discussed 

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the stratigraphy of the canal hanks in some detail and listed many spe- 

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% w cies. The marine Upper Cretaceous of Delaware was recently reviewed 

' '' by Oroot, Organist and Richards (1954) and an attempt was made to 

redefine the stratigraphy. A history of previous work in the state is 

(ncluded in the latter report. 

Maryland. The most complete report on the Upper Cretaceous of 

&laryland is the well illustrated two-volume report issued by the Mary- 

~ 

landelogical Survey (Clark et al, 1916). This volume includes a 

- lekhy Teport on the Upper Cretaceous floras of the world by Berry 

as well as s;stematic sections on the different groups of animals and 

/:, plants by varibzs authors. 

- . Lists and de&iptions of the Cretaceous mollusks from wells near 

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Salisbury, Berlin and Ocean City, Maryland, were given by Stephenson 

and Tokes in a volume edited by Anderson (1948). 

Virginia. No marine fossiliferous Cretaceous deposits are known 

to crop out in Virginia. However, the Raritan formation is known from 

the subsurface in the vicinity of Norfolk, from which the index fossil 

Ezog,yra woolmani was described (Richards, 1947). 

North Carolina. Numerous Cretaceous localities as well as lists of 

species mere given by Stephenson (1912) as part of a general survey 

of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. The fossils were described and 

fully illustrated in a later volume (Stephenson, 1923), with a few additional 

species described still later (Stephenson, 1927). A brief summary 

of the Cretaceous of the state was included in a volume by Richards 

(1950). 

Sot~th Carolina. Many species from the Cretaceous of South Carolina 

are included in the above mentioned North Carolina reports (Stephenson, 

1923,1927). A discussion of some localities with lists of fossils 

was given by Cooke (1936). 

Georgia. Although many species were described by early morkers 

from Pataula Creek and other localities in Georgia, no complete report 

on the Cretaceous fossils of that state has ever been published. Lists of 

localities and species have been given by Vcatch and Stephenson (1911) 

and Cooke (1943). The fauna of the Eutam formation of Georgia and 

Alabama has recently been described by Stephenson (1957). 

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Alabama. Although the locality at Eufaula, Alabama, on the Chattahoochee 

River has yielded many species described by Conrad and 6 

Lz 

others, tbcre has never been a complete report on the Cretaceous fauna 

of Alabama. The most complete summary is that of Stephenson (1926) 

which contains a few plates of typical fossils. 

Missictsippi. The most complete summary of the Cretaceous of . -. 

llississippi is the report of Stephenson and Monroe (1940). A-few - 

additional species from the vicinity of Dumas in Tippah County were 

described by Harbison (1945). . \ ..4 / 

Tenn.essoe. Tbe fauna of the classic locality at Coon Creek, McNairy 

County, Tennessee, has been fully described and illustrated by 

(1926). 

Tesas. Summaries of the Cretaceous of the state have been prg. -'- ' 

pared by Adkins (1928, 1932), while detailed reports on the faunas of 

the Navarro and Woodbine formations have been published by gte: 

phenson (1941,1953). 

General. For a general discussion of the Cretaceous of the Atlantic 

and Gulf Coasts, the reader is referred to the the writings of Stephenson .. 

(1939) and Richards (1953) as well as to the chart by Stejhenson et d i;? L 

(1942) upon which Table 3-(page 13) is in part b";~d;,TVorks deal- ': 

ing with special groups of fossils found in the Creta us of the Coastal 

Plain include reports on the echinoids (Cookr, 1 .& ), the Exogyras . < 

(Stephenson, 1914) and the corals (Wells, 1gT3). , 

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Raritan Tusealoosa Tuscaloosa 

Woodbine 


TABLE 3. Correlation of Cretaceous Formations of Atantic Coastal Plain 

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Comanche

CRETACEOUS FORhl:\TIONS OF NEW JERSEY1 

by Horace Q. Richards 

Lower Crataceous. No deposits of Early Cretaceous age are known 

to crop out in New Jersey. The three formations of the Potomac group, 

the Patuxent (predominately a sand), the Arundel (clay) and the 

Patapsco (predominately a sand) are widely distributed in the area 

immediately to the south, but have not been reported from the surface 

in New Jersey. There is a difference of opinion regarding the age of the 

Potomac group. It has generally been placed in the Lower Cretaceous 

on the basis of fossil plants. More recently, Anderson (1948) and 

Spangler and Peterson (1950) placed the Patuxent in the Lower Cre- 

taceous and the Aruudel and Patapsco in the Upper Cretaeeous. On a 

reexamination of the fossil plants, Dorf (1952) rejects the Upper Cre- 

taceous dating and places the entire group in the Lower Cretaceous. 

Dryden, (quoted by Johnson and Richards, 1952 p. 2153) on the basis 

of heavy mineral studies, states that the lower section of the deep well 

at Salem, N. J. penetrated into the Lower Cretaceous. This.is the only 

record of the Lower Cretaceous in New Jersey. 

Raritan formation. The Raritan formation was first named by Con- 

rad (1869, p. 360), but was redefined and restricted by Clark (1904) to 

exclude those beds now assigned to the Rlagothy. The Raritan formation 

consists chiefly of alternating layers of sand and clay. The clays are 

of various colors from nearly white to steel-blue, red and black; some 

beds are sandy and at times considerable quantities of pyrite and lignite 

are included. Some of the sands are nearly pure quartz, while others 

are micaceous, liguitie or arkosic. 

In Middlesex County, the Raritan formation has been divided into 

seven beds but it is probable that they are rather local in distribution. 

The older and newer termiuologies are given below: 

Kummel and Knapp, 1904 Barksdale, et al, 1943 

7. Amboy Stoneware Clay Amboy stoneware clay (top) 

6. Sand Bed No. 3 Old Bridge sand member 

5. South Anlboy Fire Clay South Amboy fire clay 

4. Feldspar-Kaolin Sand Bed Sayreville sand member 

3. Woodbridgc clay Woodbridge clay 

2. Fire Sand No. 1 Farrington sand member 

1. Raritan Fire and Terracotta Raritan fire clay (bottom) 

(Potter's) Clay 

In the vicinity of Raritan Bay, the Raritan formation can easily be 

distinguished from the overlying Magothy, but this separation is much 

more difficult farther to the southwest. Consequently many geological 

maps combine the two formations. 

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'This chapter L, partly adapted from WeUer (1901). Lewb md Kumrnel (1940). S~anslcr 

and Petenon (19501 and Johnson and Richard. (1962). 


CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS 

Fossil plants are known from most members (Berry, 1911), while 

brackish and marine invertebrates are known only from the Wood- 

bridge member where they occur in an impure siderite. It is probable 

that the Raritan formation is predominantly non-marine in origin with 

only a few thin lenses indicating marine conditions, as exemplified by 

the fossils in the Woodbridge member at Sayreville and a few shell 

fragments in wells at Fort Dix and Clementon. 

Both the plants and animals suggest a hasal Upper Cretaceous age 

correlated with the Tuscaloosa and Woodbine of the southern coastal 

plain and the Cenomanian of Europe. 

Spangler and Peterson suggested that the Raritan of New Jersey 

was equivalent to the hasal Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) plus the 

upper Lower Cretaceous (Albion), hut this argument was refuted by 

Johnson and Richards (1952) and Dorf (1952). 

Magothy formation. In early reports the Afagothy of New Jersey 

was included with the Raritan. The name was first used by Darton 

(1893) for exposures along the Afagothy River in Afaryland. It sup- 

planted the local name "Cliffmood clays'' used for the fossiliferous ma- 

terial exposed along Raritan Bay at Cliffwood, New Jersey. The Ma- 

gothy formation extends across New Jersey from Raritan Bay to the 

Delaware River below Camden ; it is, however, difficult to distinguish 

it from the Raritan south of Trenton. 

The Magothy consists of beds of sand and clay, many of them highly 

lignitic, with some glaucouitic beds near the top. An extensive marine 

fauna has been described near Cliffmood, N. J., hut elsewhere the for- 

mation is largely non-marine and frequently carries plant fossils. The 

fauna suggests a correlation with the Eutah beds of the Gulf Coast. 

MATAWAN GROUP. The term Matawan was first suggested as a 

name for the glaucouitic sands and clays exposed along AIataman Creek, 

New Jersey by Clark (1894). This unit had previously been known as 

the "clay marl series." At first it was regarded as a formation, hut 

it was later raised to tlie rank of a group with the individual members 

being called formations. In Maryland, where the individual units are 

not readily recognizable, the Matawan is regarded as a formation. 

Spangler and Peterson (1950) prefer the formational rank of the 

Matawan, hut Johnson and Richards (1952) argue that since the vari- 

ous units are mappable for reasonably long distances, these units are 

truly formations. This would make the Alatawan a group. 

The Matawan group isronghly equivalent to thc Black Creek forma- 

tion of the Carolinas, the Taylor group of the Gulf region and the 

Campanian of Europe. For other correlations see table on page 13. 

Merchantville formation. The clays overlying the Afagothy mere 

defined as the Crosswicks formation by Conrad (1869). Although this 

term is still sometimes used in Delaware and Maryland, in New Jersey 

it has been broken down into two distinct units. The lower unit, the 

Merchantville, was named by Knapp (Salisbury, 1899) and consists of 

black, glanconitic, micaceous, and occasionally sandy clay. It is gen- 



erdy greasy in appearance, massive in structure, and weathers to a 

brown earth. Its maximum thickness in outcrop is 60 feet, but it probably 

thickens down dip. The Merchantville contains an extensive fauna, 

especially from Maple Shade (Lenola). 

Woodbury formation. The upper part of the Crosswicks formation 

was described as a separate formation, the Woodbury, by Knapp (Salis- 

.bury, 1899, p. 35). It is a black, non-glauconitic, jointed clay which 

weathers to a light chocolate color and when dry breaks into innumerable 

blocks. It is comformable with the underlying Merchantville and 

the overlying Englishtown sand. It can be distinguished from tlie Merchantville 

by its color difference, the absence of glauconite, and by differences 

in faunal content. 

Englisktown formation. The Englishtown is a white or yellow quartz 

sand, slightly micaceous and sparingly glauconitie. Locally parts of the 

formation have been cemented into rather massive beds of sandstone. 

The sand is frequently cross-bedded and occasionally there are beds of 

clay. It represents the lower part of the "Hazlet sand" of Clark and 

part of Cook's "clay marl series." It was formerly called the "Columbus 

sand." The term Englishtown was first used by Kummel (in Weller, 

1907, p. 17). 

The Englishtown sand is best exposed in the northeastern part of its 

distribution, near Englishtown, Browntown and Atlantic Highlands. 

It can be traced southwest across the state through Moorestown and 

Swedesboro to, or almost to, the Delaware River. It is not recognized in 

Delaware (Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954). 

The Englisbto~vn sand is probably largely non-marine or estuarine 

although a few marine fossils have been found in wells and bore holes 

(see page 23). 

MarshalLtown formation. This unit was named by Knapp (in Salisbury, 

1899, pp. 35-6) and consists of material ranging from a black 

sandy clay to an argillaceous glauconitic marl. It extends in a narrow 

belt from Monmouth to Salem Counties but is'known in relatively few 

outcrops. Credner (1870) reported abundant fossils from a railroad 

cut near Woodbury and JVeller obtained excellent material near Swedesboro, 

but neither of these localities is accessible today. 

lYenonah sand. Above the Marshalltown formation there is a considerable 

thicknesq of sand. This has been separated into two formations 

largely on the basis of the fossils, although the lower part (Wenonah) 

is generally a fine micaceous sand and the upper part (Mount Laurel) 

is coarser and contains considerable glauconite. Because of the diffcrences 

in faunas, it is now believed that the Wenonah-Mount Laurel 

boundary is also the boundary between the Matawan group and tbe 

overlying Monmounth group. Spangler and Paterson raised an objection 

to this correlation and would prefer to move the Matawan- 

Monmouth boundary to the shell bed in the Navesink formation. The 

geological map of New Jersey combines these sands as the Mount 

Laurel-Wenonah, but in Delaware the boundary is very distinct. 


CRETACEOUS FORMATIONS 

The Wenonah fauna is largely recurrent from the Woodbury and 

contains few species in common with the Jfarshalltomn or the overlying 

Mount Laurel. The problematical fossil tube ( 9) Hdyminites major 1s 

characteristic of the Wenonah formation at anumber of localities in Xc.w 

Jersey and Delaware. A thin deposit of bentonite is known in the IVcno- 

nah near Runnemede, N. J. The term Wenonah mas first used by linapp 

(Salisbury, 1899, p. 35). 

MONMOUTH GROUP. The Monmouth formation was named by 

Clark (1897) from Monmouth County, New Jersey, but later the mem- 

bers were raised to the rank of formations. In Maryland, the Ifon- 

mouth was originally divided into the Xavcsink and the Redbank, but at 

present it is regarded as a single formation. As in the case of the Mata- 

wan, Spangler and Peterson (1950) suggested reducing the Monmouth 

to the rank of a formation with the subdivisions being classed as mem- 

bers, but again Johnson and Richards point out the desirability of re- 

taining the formational rank of the different units. 

The Monmouth group is roughly equivalent to the Peedee formation 

of the Carolinas, the Navarro of Texas and part of the Maestrichtian of 

Europe (see page 13). 

Mount Laurel sand. The Afount Laurelsand,named by Clark (1897), 

is generally slightly coarser and more glauconitic than the Wenonah, al- 

though they frequently cannot be separated. Faunally, however, the 

Mount Laurel is very distinct and is characterized by Belentnitella 

americana, Choristotl4yrk plicata, Ezogyra costata and E. cancellata. 

Faunally the Mount Laurel is almost identical with the overlying Nave- 

sink. In New Jersey the Rfount Laurel and Navesink are very different 

lithologically, although in Delaware they are combined into a single 

unit (Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954). 

Navesink marl. The Navesink formation (Clark, 1894, p. 336) con- 

sists of glauconitic marl mixed with varying amounts of quartz sand. 

The upper part of the formation is less glauconitic and more clayey. The 

glauconite is used in water-softening equipment and is dug at Sewell 

where it underlies a somewhat similar glauconitic marl of the Horners- 

town formation. The Navesink corresponds in general with Cook's 

"Lower Marl." It is highly fossiliferous in places and contains such 

species as B, americana, E. costata, Gryphea conveza and Choristo- 

thyris plicata. 

Red Bank sand. This formation, named by Clark (1893, p. 337) 

from Red Bad, N. J., is for the most part a fairly coarse yellow and 

reddish brown quartz sand, locally indurated to limonitic sandstone. 

The lower beds, which contain the better fossils, are somewhat clayey. It 

is best developed in northern Monmouth County where it. attains a 

thickness of 140 feet, but it thins out toward the southwest and pinches 

out. completely near Sykesville, Burlington County. It is not known 

from there to the Delaware River. A.sand closely resembling the Red 

Bank sand of New Jersey occurs along the Chesapeake and Delaware 

Canal but because it contains certain elementsof the Navesink fauna 



it is possible that it is slightly older than the typical Red Bank (Oroot, 

Organist and Richards, 1954 p. 29). The Red Bank formation is, in part, 

the "red sand" of earlier writers. 

Tinton bed. Beds of green clayey and sandy glauconitic marl from 

10 to 20 feet in total thickness overlie the Red Bank in hfonmouth 

County. These beds are frequently well indurated. They were named 

by Weller (1904, p. 159) from Tinton Falls, N. J. The United States 

Geological Survey regards the Tinton as a member of the Red Bank, 

but in view of faunal and lithological differences, the State Survey gives 

the Tinton formational rank. 

EOCENE. At the time that Weller prepared his report on'the 

Cretaceous fossils of New Jersey the three next youngest formatione-the 

Hornerstolvn, Vineentown and Manasquan--were regarded as of 

Cretaceous age and their faunas were discussed and illustrated in the 

1907 volume. Later, however, Cooke and Stephenson (1928) pointed out 

that the faunas of these three formations suggested an Eocene age. 

While there has been some difference of opinion regarding the exact correlation, 

most American writers have followed Cooke and Stephenson 

in placing the Hornerstown, Vincentown and Manasquan formations 

in the Tertiary. 

The Hornerstown, and to a lesser extent the Vincentown, contain species 

related to those of the Danian of Europe. Since the Danian is regarded 

by some as basal Paleocene and by others as uppermost Cretaceous, 

no convincing evidence for the age of these three formations 

can be reached by correlation with Europe. 

McLean (1952, 1953) beLieves that the foraminifera from the Vin= 

centown formation suggest a Paleocene age, but other workers have 

fa~rored a TVilcox age. The problem of the age of these three New Jersey 

formations is being studied by various workers and it is hoped that a 

more positive correlation can be worked out soon. Table 4 gives the 

correlation favored by the author. 

TABLE 4. Correlation of Eocene formations of New Jersey with those 

of the Gulf Coast. 

NEW JERSEY GULF COAST 

Shark River Claiborne 

Manasquan Wilcox ( 9) 

Vineentown 

Midway (Paleocene) 

Hornerstown i 

Whatever be the age of the Hornerstown, it is apparent that it rests 

unconformably on the Tinton, Red Bank and Navesink formations progressively 

from northeast to southwest. 

Alternation of faunus. "The strata from the Magothy to the Tinton, 

inclusive, contain a complex assemblage of organisms with'two distinct 

facies. One of these, a Cucz~llaea fauna, characterizes the more glauconitic 

formations-the Iilerchantville, the Marshalltown, the Navesink, and the 


Tinton-and may be regarded as a deeper-water fauna. The second 

faunal facies, characterized by Lucina cretacea [Lucina glebzila] or its 

associates, occurs in the clay and clayey sand of the Magothy, the Woodbury, 

the Wenonah and the Red Bank formations and was a shallower 

water fauna. 

"Both of these facies m rob ably lived side by side in their respective 

zones off the shore and migrated back and forth across the Coastal Plain 

region with the gradual advance and retreat of the sea. During the 

periods of depression the deeper water with the accompanying glauconitic 

sediments and the Czicallaea fauna gradually entered this region 

from the southeast and occupied a belt that had formerly been occupied 

by the shallower water fauna and in which chiefly land-derived sediments 

had been deposited. With a later period of emergence both 

faunas shifted to the southeast and the shallower water facies again 

occupied the region." (Lewis and Kummel, 1940 pp. 121-22) 

It need not he assumed that the difference between the shallow 

water and the deeper water was very great. It was formerly believed that 

glauconite formed only under conditions of moderately deep water 

(at least 600 feet), but this has now been shown to be erroneous and 

that it can form even in very shallow water. This fact plus the fact that 

fossil wood has been found in most of the Cretaceous formations in New 

Jersey suggests that the water was never very deep and that the shoreline 

was never very far west of the Delaware River. 

Ezogyra zones. Paleontologists have found it convenient to recognize 

certain zones within the Upper Cretaceous which are characterized 

by certain assemblages of fossils. Among the fossils most useful for this 

zoning are certain species of the palecypod Ezogyra. These species 

with their associated fossils are very useful in long range correlation 

of the Cretaceous deposits of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. The 

following zones have been recognized. 

Ezogyra woolmani zone. This species has been found in the Raritan 

and Tus,caloosa formations from New Jersey to South Carolina. It 

is closely related to E. colt~mbella from the Eagle Ford formation of 

Texas which is approximately the same age as the Raritan and Tuscaloosa. 

Ezogyra upatoiensis zone. This zone was first recognized by Stephenson 

from a well at Charleston, South Carolina. It is probably 

equivalent to the older, continental phase of the Black Creek formation 

of the Carolinas, the Eutah of Georgia and the Magothy of New Jersey, 

although the species has not actually been found in the latter state. 

Ezogyra ponderosa zone. This zone comprises the Marshalltown 

formation of New Jersey, part of the Matawan of Maryland, the Black 

Creek of the Carolinas, and the Taylor of Texas. 

Ezogyra costata zone. This group comprises the formations of the 

Monmouth group of New Jersey, the Peedee of the Carolinas, and part 

of the Navarro of Texas.' 

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1 Emuyro coatate haa recently been found in the Woadbun formation. Sea ~ n 118. ~ o 



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Ezogyra cancellata zme. This is a more restricted zone forming the 

base of the Exogyra costata zone. It has bee11 traced a distance of 2500 

miles from Atlantic Highlands, N. J. to Cardenas in the State of San 

Luis Potosi in IZe~ieo. (Stephenson, 1933).) In Kew Jersey the zone 

is almost identical with the Jlount Laurel formation although a few 

specimens of E. cancellafa have recently been reported from the Navesink. 

In Delaware, where the Monnt Laurel and Navesink formations 

are combined, E. cancellata is found throughout the combined formation 

(Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954). Some of the other species generally 

associated with the Ezogyra ca%cellata zone are: Ostrea falcata, 

0. panda, 0. plzbntosa, 0. tecticostota, Gryphaea convexa, E. costata, 

Pectem sinzplicius, Anmia argentaria, A. tellinoides, Paranonaia scabra, 

and Belemnitella amerieana. The only one of the above mentioned species 

limited to the Mount Laurel sand is Anomia tellinoides. 

TABLE 5. Average thickness (at outcrop) and dip of Cretaceous formamations 

of New Jersey 

TINTON 

RED BANK 

NAVESINK 

MOUNT LAUREL 

WENONAH 

MARSHALLTOWN 

ENGLISHTOWN 

Average thickness at Average southeastward 

outcrop in feet dip in feot per mile 

10-20 in Monmouth Co. 

only 

140 in Monmouth Co. Not 

present south of Sykesville. 

3-40 

5-60 

20-35 

40-50 

140 in Monmouth Co. to 

about 35 feet in Salem Co. 

WOODBURY 

50 

41 

MERCHANTVILLE 46-60 

42 

MAGOTHY 

RARITAN 

115 on Raritan Bay and 

diminishing to less than 20 

feet along Delaware River. 

I 

4045 

top about 45; 

base 65-100. 


30 

3033 

33 

35 

36 

31 

39

LIST OF CRETACEOUS FOSSIL LOCALITIES IN NEW JERSEY 


No attempt is made to record all localities within the state from 

which fossils have been collected. The following list covers most of the 

important localities of early collectors as well as those available today. 

The list is partly adapted from Weller (1907) but has been brought up 

to date by the inelusion of numerous localities discovered during recent 

years. The information is not as detailed as given in Weller's original 

volume, but it is believed to be sufficient. In many eases, labels or pnb- 

lished records of collected fossils merely list the nearest town such as 

Haddonfield or Cliffwood. In this case, the general region is given a 

number while the exact locality, when known, is given a subheading 

such as la, lb, etc. Thus a specimen recorded from locality 5 came from 

Cliffwood, exact spot not known, while specimens recorded from 5d 

came from Oschwald's pits at Cliffwood. 

Those localities from which fossils have been collected within the last 

five years and which presumably are still accessible to the fossil hunter 

are designated by the symbol *. 

For more detailed information on some of the localities mentioned, 

the reader is referred to TVeller (1907), Spangler and Peterson (1950), 

and Johnson and Richards (1952). 

RARI'PAN FORMATION 

1. Sayreville, Middlesex County, N. J. 

'la. Sayrc and Fisher pit (Woodbridge member) 

+lb. New Jersey Clay Products Company pit (Woodbridge mem- 

ber) 

lc. Furman's pits (Wellcr) 

2. Woodbridge, Middlesex County, N. J. Valentine pits (Whitfield) 

3. East Brunswick Township, Middlesex County, N. J. (Whitfield) 

4. South River, Middlesex County, N. J. "Washington" of old labels 

of Conrad. 

In addition, unidentifiable Raritan fossils have been found in wells 

at Fort Dix and Clementon, N. J. 

MAGOTHY FORillATION 

5. Cliffwood, Monmouth County, N. J. 

'5s. Bluff along Raritan Bay 

*5b. Material loose on beach near bluff 

5c. Old yts near Cliffmood (Weller) 

*5d. Oschwald's pits (near Whale Creek) 

6. Matawan, Monmouth County, N. J. 

MERCHANTVILLE FORMATION 

'7. Cliff~rood, Alonmontlr County, N. J. (Oschwald's pits. Overlies 

the Magothy formation). 

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22 . CRETACEOUS FOSSILS 


8a. Along west bank of Matawan Creek, north of town of Mata- 

wan (Weller) 

8b. Small ravine tributary to Cheesequake Creek, two miles 

northwest of Matawan (Weller). 

9. Lorillard, pits east of Keyport, Monmouth County, N. J. Lower 

part of pit (Weller). 

10. Jamesburg, Middlesex County, N. J. 

10a. 3.5 miles a little north of east of Jamesburg on Matchaponix 

Brook (Weller) 

lob. 3 milcs east of Jamesburg on side of road (Weller) 

100. First railroad cut 1 mile south of Lower Jamesburg st& 

tion (Weller) 

11. Yardville, Mercer County, N.J. Exposures in bed of small trih- 

butary of Doctors Creek. 

12. Bordentown, Burlington County, N. J. (Exact locality not re- 

corded). 

12a. Church pit, two miles southwest of town. This pit is now 

abandoned. 

13. Burlington, Burlington County, N. J. (Exact locality not 

given). 

14. "Burlington County" 

15. Lenola, Burlington County, N. J. Reeves clay pit on north hank 

of Pensauken Creek. Weller reported a very extensive fauna from this 

locality. It is very close to the present Graham brickyard at Maple 

Shade (locality 16). 

'16. Maple Shade, Burlington Count,y, N. J. Graham brickyard, 

near junction of Main Street and Route 73. During recent years an ex- 

cellent Merchantville fauna has been obtained from this pit. 

17. Merchantville, Camden County, N. J. Railroad cut just east of 

Merchantville (Weller) . 

WOODBURY FORMATION 

*18. Lorillard, east of Keyport, Ifonmouth County, N. J. Mmy fos- 

sils were obtained here by \\Teller and other early collectors. At the pre- 

sent time only poorly preserved impressions can be found near the 

south end of the pit. 

19. Matawan, Monmouth County, N. J. Fury brickyard, east of 

Matawan (Weller). 

20. Crosswieks, Burlington County, N. J. 

*20a. J. Braislin and Son's clay pits on Crosswicks Creek half a 

mile west of Crosswicks (Weller). Later operated by Franklin Brick 

Company. (A few fossils found during recent years). 

'21. Bordentonn, Burlington County, N. d. Church Brick Company 

pits, one mile south of town. 

22. Mount Laurel, Burlington County. A fauna of well presemed 


FOSSIL LOCALITIES 23 

unaltered shells was obtained between the depths of 150' and 160' in an 

artesian well near the town of Mount Laurel (Johnson, 1899). 

23. Fellowship, Burlington County, N. J. Unaltered fossiIs, somewhat 

similar to those from the Mount Laurel well, were obtained from 

a well on the Rhule property at the corner of Church Road and the 

New Jersey Turnpike between the depths of 130' and 175' (Richards, 

1954). 

24. Haddonfield, Camden County, N. J. 

*24a. Small stream tributary to Cooper Creek (near the corner 

of Maple Avenue and Grove Street). It mas near this locality that the 

duck bill dinosaur IIadrosaun~s fot~llcii was found in 1858. Many invertebrate 

fossils were reported from this locality by Weller, and it is 

still possible to obtain material from the clay in the stream bed. 

24b. Dobbs clay pits, 1.5 miles northwest of Haddonfield and 

about 1 mile southeast of Collingswood station. (Weller) ). 

24c. At crossroads y4 mile southwest of Dobbs clay pits (Weller). 

25. Collingswood, Camden County, N. J. Sewer excavations at 

Cooper Creek and Harvard Avenne. (Several specimens of Placentt 

ceras placenta found in 1937). 

ENGLISHTOWN FORMATION 

The only recognizable maerofossils from the Englishtown formation 

are some specimens of Turritella sp., Carditcm tenuistriata and Lzcnatia 

halli from a well at Lavalette. Unidentifiable fragments from wells at 

Fort Dix, Holmdel and Mantoloking and from test horings for the New 

Jersey Turnpike between Runnemede and Woodbury Heights have been 

recorded. (Johnson and Richards, 1952, pp. 2155-6). 

26. Lavalette, borough well No. 2. 

MARSHALLTOWN FORMATION 

27. Marshalltown Salem County, N. J. Marl pits (Weller). 

28. Swedesboro, Gloueester County, N. J. 

'28a. One mile a little south of west from Swedesbom. Aecord- 

ing to Weller (p. 82) the clay is well exposed in the banks of the brook 

in the woods at this locality and he reported an extensive fauna of well 

preserved mollusks from it. However, careful investigation during re- 

cent years has failed to rediscover it and the only fossils found in that 

locality were a few specimen8 of Ezogyra poderosa and Oryphaea. 

28b. 2.5 miles southwest of Swedesboro and 2.5 miles northwest 

from Harrisonville. (Weller) . 

29. Harrisonville, Gloucester County, N. .J. Old mill pond 1.5 miles 

northwest of Rarrisouville station. (Weller). 

30. Woodbury, Gloucester County, N. J. (Esaet locality not given). 

*31. Penns Grove, Gloucester County, N. J. Abandoned marl pits 

along Route U.S. 40 between Penns Grove and Woodstown. 



*32. Fellowship, Burlington County, N. J. Excavations for the New 

Jersey Turnpike at crossing of Pennsauken Creek. 

WENONAH FORMATION 


*33a. Road cut 1.5 miles south of Ifataman on east side of Route 

34. Numerous tubes of Ha.l!/minites major and a few ohsecure mol- 

lusks. 

*33b. Same locality, but new exposure in borrow pit 200 yards 

east of highmay. 

34. Crawfords Corner, Monmouth Cormty, N. J. Longstreet's marl 

pit, a little less than a mile southeast of Crawfords Corner. (Weller, p. 

91). 

35. Marlboro, Monmoutli County, N. ;I. A little over a mile east of 

Marlboro, in the south hank of Hop Brook. Many fossils reported by 

Weller. Not observed during recent field work. 

"36. Runnemede, Camden County, N. J. Numerous tubes of Raly- 

minites major can be seen along the New Jersey Turnpike north of In- 

terchange 3 and along the Kings Highway south of the Turnpike. 

MOUNT LAUREL AND NAVESINK FORMATIONS 

Weller (1907 p. 103) stated "the faunas of the Mount Laurel and 

the Navesiuk marl constitute a single unit, and in any discussion of 

them they must be considered together." The accompanying list of lo- 

calities, since it is partly based upon Weller's test, mill also group the 

two formations, although when possible the different units will he indi- 

cated. . . 

*37. Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth County, N. J. Bluff along Rari- 

tan Bay east of the railroad station. (Mount Laurel and Navesink). 

38. Red Bank, Monmouth County, N. J. Ravine on east side of rail- 

road,, 1% miles northwest of Red Bank station. (Navesink) (Weller). 

39. Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J. 

"39a. Along Poricy Brook on both sides of bridge 2.5 miles south 

of Middletown on road to Lincroft. (Navesink). 

39b. Marl pit about Y2 mile west of railroad station. (Mount 

Laurel and Navesink) (Weller). 

40. Crawfords Corner, Monmouth County, N. J. The Navesink was 

formerly exposed in the Longstreet marl pit. (Weller). 

41. Holmdel, Monmouth County, N. J. 

41a. Holmes' marl pit, 1 mile northwest of Holmdel. (Weller). 

41h. Edgar Schenck's marl pit, 1.5 miles northwest Holmdel. 

(Weller). 

41c. Henry Conover's marl pit over 1.5 miles a little west of 

north from Holmdel. (Weller). 

41d. 0.5 mile east of Holmdel in creek bank. (Navesink) 

41c. 1.5 miles east of Holmrlel in ditch south of highway. (Nave- 

aink) . 


FOSSIL LOCALITIES 25 

42. Marlboro, Monmouth County, N. J. Obadiah Herbert's marl pit 

just east of Marlboro (Weller) and along Hop Brook. (Navesink and 

Mt. Laurel). 

43. Freehold, Dlonmouth County, N. J. Old marl it three miles 

west of Freehold and one mile a little east of south from Tennents Sta- 

tion at headwaters of small tributary of Wemrock Brook. (Navesink) 

(Weller). 

44. Upper Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J. From old labels. 

+45. Cream Ridge, Monmouth County, N. J, Marl pits on "Schank 

farm" and along small tributary on east side of Crosswicks Creek, about 

'/z mile southwest of Cream Ridge. (Navesink). 

'46. Near Wnlnford, Lfonmouth County, N. J. Various tributaries on 

the west side of Crosswicks Creek. These tributaries are on the east side 

of the road leading south from Walnford and occur from Walnford to 

a point about three miles south of that tom. Belemnitella antericana, 

Exogyra costata and Gryphaea are abundant in some of these tribu- 

taries. (Navesink). 

'47. Crosswicks Creek, Ocean County, N. J. Various exposures 

along west bank of Creek, especially on the Nutt Farm two miles south 

of Walnford. (Mount Laurel and Navesink). 

48. Near New Egypt, Ocean County, N. J. The Navesink formation 

extends south along Crosswicks Creek to a point 21.1 miles north of New 

Egypt. Whitfield obtained some of his Navesink fossils from Bruere's 

marl pit, northwest of New Egypt. 

49. Near Jacobstown, Burlington County, N. J. 1% miles northwest 

of Jacobstown and about 11.1 miles southwest of Arneytown. (Nave- 

sink) (Weller). 

50. Mount Laurel, Burlington County, N. J. Roadside exposure 1 

mile southwest of Mount Laurel. (Mount Laurel) (Weller). 

51. Birmingham, Burlington County, N. J. Some Cretaceous rep- 

tiles have been reported from the vicinity of Birmingham. While the 

present excavations of the Permutit Company extend only into the 

Hornerstown formation, it is possible that earlier excavations pene- 

trated into the underlying Navesink. 

+52. Runnemede, Camden County, N. J. A number of Navesink fos- 

sils were obtained from exeavations for the New Jersey Turnpike about 

% mile north of Interchange 3. 

'53. Mullica FIill, Gloucester County, N. J. This is the classic lo- 

cality where so many Cretaceous fossils have been found ever since the 

days of Gabb and Whitfield. It is located on the soutb side of Route 322 

at its junction with State Route 45. The locality is immediately south 

of Raccoon Creek. Although many species have been obtained in the 

past, collecting today is not likely to he very profitable. 

"54. Hurffville, Gloucester County, N. J. 

55. Barnsboro, Gloucester County, N. J. 



*55a. Chestnut Branch Creek and roadeut 0.8 miles southeast 

of Five Corners in Barnsboro. (Navesink). 

*55b. Ravine of Edwards Run 1.7 miles west of Five Corners. 

(Mount Laurel and Navesink). 

56. Sewell, Gloueester County, i\'. J. Tlie lower part of the pits of the 

Inversand Company, y2 mile southeast of Sewell, have yielded Navesink 

fossils including the dinosaur Hadrosaurus minor. (Colbert, 1948). 

57. "Burlington County." 

58. "Monmouth County." 

RED BANK FORMATION 

59. Red Bank, Dfonmouth County, N. J. On both shores of Shrews- 

bury River in the vicinity of Red Bank. (Weller) Poorly preserved 

fossils were also found on the south side of Tower Hill in the eastern 

part of Red Bank. (Weller). 

*60. Near Middletown, Monmouth County, N. J. The Red Bank 

formation overlies the Navesink along Poricy Brook, 2.5 miles south of 

Middletown. (See locality 39a). 

"61. Beers Hill, Monmouth County, N. J. Road cut on road be- 

tween Hazlet and Holmdel just south of Garden State Parkway and % 

mile north of Crawfords Corner. Here the Red Bank underlies the 

Tinton. 

TINTON FORMATION 

*62. Beers EIill, hfonmouth County, N. J. (See locality 61). 

"63. Tinton Falls, Monmouth County, N. J. "Just below the mill.'' 

64. Colts Neck, DTonmouth County, N. J. In bank of small run 1.5 

miles southwest of Colts Neck and 4.5 miles east of Freehold. (Weller). 

65. Red Valley, Monmouth County, N. J. In bank of Ivanhoe Brook, 

about 1 mile east of Red Valley. Also, along road just east of Red Val- 

ley. (Weller). 


INTRODUCTION TO SPSTEAIATIC SECTIONS 

By Horace G. Richards 

In general, the present work has attempted to follow the outline and 

style of Weller's 1907 volume. However, with contributions from eleven 

authors, some variation has been necessary. In the case of chapters which 

have been largely rewritten, new descriptions have generally been prepared. 

In other chapters, many of \\Teller's original descriptions have 

been copied intact. In cases where the original text is quoted directly 

(or with very minor changes) the name of the author is given in parenthesis. 

In all cases, attempts have been made to bring the nomenclature up 

to date. In some chapters fairly extensive revisions have been made, 

while in others little or no attempt has been made to discuss groups 

higher than those of generic rank. 

The Gastropods and Pclecypods comprise the great bulk of the fauna, 

about 400 out of a total of 475 species. Many of these species are bascd 

upon wry poorly preserved material making it extremely difficult to 

determine the correct generic or family relationship. Ifany of the 

species discussed by IVhitfield and TJTcller were compared to species 

originally described from localities in t,lle Cretaceous of the Southern 

Atlantic or Gnlf Coastal Plain. Frequently, a cast or mold from Ne\v 

Jersey was compared ~vitl~ a perfect shell from North Carolina or Alabama. 

Stephenson has pointcrl out that Inany of these identifications 

are incorrect. There is need for a more detailed comparison of the 

New Jersey fauna with material from othcr lacolities, but this is not 

the purpose of the present volume. Generic and family classification 

in general follo~~s Stephenson and Wenz. 

In most cases abbreviatecl synonomies only are given. It has been 

thought sufficient to include refercnccs to the original description of 

species and synonyms as ~vell as all important post-1907 references. In 

the case of those rcfcrcnees most freqncntly cited, such as Whitfield, 

JVeller, Stephenson, Gardner, Wade, etc., merely the year, page and 

plate numbers are given, the full reference being found in the bibliography 

at the end of Part 11. Students rvishing more complete bihliographies 

sl~ould consult Weller's original edition or the various works 

of Stephenson cited in the bibliography. (In a few chapters, the authors 

have preferred a more complcte synonomy.) 

For purposes of economy in most of the chapters all localities have 

been numbered according to the list given on pages 21-26. Because of 

the similarity of the fauna of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal with 

that of New Jersey, many species from the canal banks are included in 

this report. 

Two of the chapters-those on the nautiloids and belemnites-differ 

from the rest of the book in being much more detailed. Since both of 

these groups were in need of revision, it seemed appropriate that Dr. 

27 



Uiller and Dr. Jelethy expand their cor~tributions into a more monographic 

treatment. 

The following abbreviations indicate mhere the type (or other specimens) 

may be found: 

ASNH American Museum of Natural History, New York, N.Y. 

ANSP Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 

NJSM New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J. 

PU Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. 

USKM United States National Muscum, Washington, D.C. 

JVFIS Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pa. 

TPM Peabody Museum, Pale University, New Haven, Conn. 


CRETACEOUS PORIFERA OF NEW JERSEY 

by B. F. Howell 

Family Clionidae 

Cliona cretacica Fenton & Fenton 1932 

Plate 1, Figures 1-5. 

Clbna cretacica, Fenton enton ton, 1932, Arner. Midl. Natur., vol. 13, p. 

55, pl. 7, figs. 8, 9. 

Doscription.-Boring sponges, represented in fossil form by their 

branching tuhular excavations in shells (usually shells of pelecypods 

of the genera Gryphaea and Exogyra). These tubular excavations open 

on the outer and inner surfaces of the shells and extend more or less 

parallel to these surfaces inside the shells, so that the shells are 

often riddled with them and have their surfaces pitted by dozens of the 

open ends of the tubules. Usually the tubules are largely filled with a 

dark material which often weathers away less rapidly than the calcare- 

ous material of the shells, themselves, so that shells that are partly 

weathered away show the fillings of the tubules as ridges on the remain- 

ing portion of the shell. Rarely a shell is completely removed by solu- 

tion, while the fillings of the tubules by which it was originally riddled 

remain as a network of imbricating, fused cylindrical rods. 

Range in New Jersey- 

MERCHANTVILLE : 16 

MOUNT LAUREL-NtlVESINIC: 53 

Range outside New Jersey- 

Delaware 

Type.-Mullica IIill, N. J. NJSM 8184 (lost) ; paratype NJSM 8185 

(figured) 

Cliona microtuberum Stephenson 1941 

Plate 2, Figure 6. 

Clwm microtubernm, Stephenson, 1941, p. 54. p1. 3, figs. 1-5 ; pl. 5, figs, 

1,2. 

.Description.-Boring sponges, represented as fossils by branching 

excavations in the shells of such mollusks as Gryphaea. These excava- 

tions are irregular in form, they being wider in some of their parts than 

in others. Some parts of them are tubular, hut others are irregularly 

ovate or subspherical, these parts being connected with each other by 

the tuhular excavations. Like the excavations of Cliona cretacica, those 

of C. microtubertrm are filled with a dark material (often mixed with 

grains of sand) that is probably phosphatic in composition. The surfaces 

of these fillings are covered with tiny tubercles. The record of the oc- 

currence of this species, which was originally described from Texas, is 

based on a single specimen in the New Jersey State Museum, which 

29 


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differs from C. cretacica, the common species in New Jersey, in having 

the tubercles on the surface of the fillings of the excavations. These do 

not occur on the surfaces of the fillings of C. cretacica. 

Range inNew Jersey- 

NAVESINK : 53 

Type.-Navarro formation, Tesas; USNM 76266 

Cliona retiformis Stephenson 1953 

Plate 45, Figure 1. 

Cliona retiforntis, Stephenson, 1953, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 242, 

p. .50, pl. 8, figs. 1-3. 

Clionn retifor-ntis, Stephenson, 1954, TI. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

264-B, p. 27, pl. 6, fig. 1. 

Ferruginous internal molds of the burro\i,s of a sponge that is prob- 

ably referable to this species, ~vliich was originally described from the 

Woodbine formation of Tesas, have been found on the internal mold 

of a shell of Ostrea soleniscas hleek, and on the imprint of a fragment 

of a thick unidentified shell, from the Raritan Formation. 

Young individuals of this hurro\ving sponge entered the shells of 

mollusks through circular openings of their own making that ranged 

in diameter from 0.1 mm. or less to ahont 0.5 mm. Once inside the shell, 

the sponge bored laterally, often meeting and joining its borrolvs with 

those of other sponges of the same species to form a netmork of borron,~. 

These burrows are extremely irregnlar in form and directions, ranging 

from small to relatively large in size, and being expanded at intervals 

into irregular ovate or jug-shaped cavities. This network of burrows 

may form an open lacework of lahyrint,hine passages or a dense mesh 

of burrows and turnip-shaped intereomnnieating cavities. The fossils 

of this species are usually composed of the fillings of the burrows, the 

outer surfaeesof the fillings being molds of the walls of the burrows. The 

outer snrfaees of these molds are finely stippled. 


RARITAN: (Woodhridge member) : 1 

Ra71ge mitside New Jersey- 

Texas (Woodbine formation) 

Type.-Near Euless, Terrant County, Texas. UShTM. 105068; 

Plesiotype-Sayreville, N. J.; USNRl 108611, 108612. 

Family Coeloptychiidae 

Coeloptychiurn ? jerseyensis Shimer & Powers 1914 

Plate 2, Figures 4, 5. 

Coolopl?/chi?cn~ I jerseyensi~, Shimer & l'owers, 1914, Proe. U. S. Nat. 

Museum, vol. 46, p. 155-156, p1.7. 

Description.-hfushroomlike, contracting from a broad and depressed 

upper surface into a short stalk. Edge of disk rounded. Entire 


PORIFERA 31 

surface covered with low radiating folds, which increase in ndmber 

to~vard the margin of the disk, rhere about 35 are present. Disk subcircular, 

about 33 mm. in diameter. Entire height of sponge 20 mm. 

Xo ostia can be seen on the single specimen of the species that has been 

found. 


MOUNT LAUREL : 37 

'I:?lpe.-Atlantic Highlands, N. J. USNilf 31176 

Family I~elapiidae 

Corynella jerseyensis Hone11 new species 

Plate 2, Figures 1-3. 

Description-A compound sponge with a cylindrical base above 

which there arc six lateral cylindrical branches, arranged in a circle, 

each branch tapering toward its lower end, and a central branch which 

rises within the circle of lateral branches, the whole sponge having, in 

general, a hemispherical form with a stem projecting downvard from 

the base of the hemisphere. The basal stem is deflected to one side in 

our specimen, hut was presumably vertical xvhcn the sponge was alive. 

The oscula of the branches are wide and are circular in form. No spicules 

have been found in the single known specimen, which is composed of 

greensand marl, and it is probable that the sl

CLASS ANTHOZOA 

Family Rhizangiidae 

Astrangia (Coenangia) cretacea (Bolsche) 1870 

Plate 3, Figure 3 

Astrea cretacea, BGlsche, 1870, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. Oes. Vol. 22, p. 

216. 

Siderastrea cretaeea, Wells, 1933, Bull. Amer. Paleont. vol. 18, p. 226, 

pl. 25, fig. 13 ; pl. 28, fig. 26. 

Description.-Small, hemispherical, encrusting colonies of cerioid 

corallites. Calices polygonal, 3 - 6 mm. in diameter, directly united by 

thin walls. Septa in three complete cycles (24), those of the first two 

cycles extending to the columella; third cycle uniting to the second. 

Septa thin, laterally with scattered, acute granulations, and irregularly 

dentate marginally. Columella spongy. 


MERCHANTVILLE: Maple Shade (ANSP 19644) 

WOODBURY: Haddonfield (ANSP) 

MARSHALLTOWN (plastic clay) : Woodbu'ry, Haddonfield 

(Bolsche) . 


Texas (Navarro formation) (Wells) 

Family Micrabaciidae 

Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson 1916 

Plate 3, Figures 1,2 

Micrabacia erz%raria,.Stephenson, 1916, U. S. Oeol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

98-J, p. 117, pl. 20, figs. 1-3. 

Micrabacia americana, Weller, 1907, p. 271, pl. 5, figs. 14-17 (nm M. 

amerieana Meek 1864). 

? Micrabacia cribraria, Wade, 1926, p. 27, pl. 1, figs. 9-10. 

Nicrabacia cr%%raria, Wells, 1933, Bull. Amer. Paleont., vol. 18, p. 244. 

Description.-Corallum solitary, cupoloid, free, with flat or slightly 

concave base ; diameter of base about 7 mm. ; height 2-2.25 mm. ; ratio 

of height to diameter about 30 :loo. Costae relatively narrow, slightly 

wider or slightly narrower than interspaces, with small, transversely 

acute granulations at each synapticular junction. Centrally costae 

and synapticulae form a meshwork. Costae in five complete cycles (96), 

unequal in length, those of the last or fifth cycle having a length-basal 

33 



diameter ratio of 14 :I00 to 21 :loo. Septa in five complete cycles, alter- 

nating in position with the costae. 

Remarks.-All specimens seen arc preserved as external molds that 

show the costal characters well, hut the septa are very badly preserved. 

"The species is most abundant in the 1Voodh11ry Clay, it being a rather 

common species at Lorillard ; from the other horizons it has been rarely 

met with, usually a single example having been ohserved." (Weller). 

N. cribraria was originally described from the upper part of the 

Exogyra ponderosa zone in Korth Carolina, and occurs in the same part 

of the zone in Alabama and Mississippi. ill. orkansusenszs Wells from 

the same horizon in Arkansas is very close to, if not the same as th~s 

species, having the same low corallum (h :d, 30 :100) as the New Jersey 

specimens, whereas typical .M. cribraria is proportionately higher 

(40 :loo). 

Range in h'ew Jersey- 

MERCHANTVILLE : near lfatawan 

WqODBURP: Lorillard, Matawan, Haddonfield 

WENONAH: Cralvfords Corner 

Range ontside A-ew Jcrsey- 

Upper part of Exog,yraponderosa zone : North Carolina, Georgia, 

Coahuila, IIexico. 

Type.-Whiteley Creek Landing, Neuse River, N. C. (Snow Hill 

member, Black Creek formation) ; USNM 31996. 

Family Caryophylliidae 

Trochocyathus woolmani Vaughan 1900 

Plate 3, Figures 4-6 

Trochocyathus woolmani, Vaughan, 1900, Phila. head. Nat. Sci., Proc., 

p. 436, figs. 1-3. 

Trochocyathz~s woolmani, \\'eller, 1907, p. 268, pl. 5, figs. 5-7. 

Trocl~ocyathus woolmani, Wells, 1933, Bull. Amer. Paleont., vol. 18, 

p. 213, pl. 27, figs. 4-7. 

? Parasmilia balanophylloides, Biilsche, 1870, Zeitschr. deutsch. geol. 

Ges., vol. 22, p. 215. 

? Parasaailia f balanophylloides, RTells, 1933, Bull. Amer. Paleont., vol. 

18, p. 222. 

Description.-Corrallum short, attached, inversely conical, transverse 

outline circular. Wall rather thick, naked, ornamented externally 

by 24 costae, corresponding to all cycles of septa, and showing a fairly 

regular alternation of larger and smaller-i. e., there are 12 larger 

costae of the same size corresponding to the septa of the first and second 

cycles, and 12 smaller corresponding to the septa of the third cycle; near 

the calice they are prominent, with acute edges and broad bases, as the 

base of the corallum is approached they decrease in prominence; they 


COELENTERATA 35 

possess granulations along their edges, and some scattered granulations 

on the sides. Septa arranged in three cycles, divided into six systems; 

the septa of the first cycle are appreciably larger than the others, and 

pass directly from the corallum wall to the columellar space without 

forming any part of any septal group; the septa of the third cycle bend 

towards the members of the second, and fuse to the sides of the latter 

below the level of the calice ; the septal margins project very slightly 

above the upper edge of the corallum wall; the septal faces are ornamented 

with distant subconical granulations. The inner end of each 

of the primary septa is thickened, the thickening apparently representing 

a palus, and hefore each group of the members of the second and 

tbird cycle is what appears to he a slender palus, therefore, there apparently 

are slender pali before the septa of the first and second cycles. 

Tbe columella is fasciculatc, not large, mith a papillary upper termination. 

The calicnlar fossa shallow. 

The dimensions of the type specimen are: diameter of the calice, 

3-5 mm. ; height of corallum, 4 mm. ; diameter of the area of attachment 

1 mm. (Adapted from Vaughan.) 

Rentarks.-Bijlsche's Porus~ltilia balanopltylloules, based upon small 

corallites 5 mm. in height and diameter, attached to mollusc shells, is 

included here with considerable doubt. The species has never been 

figurcd, and according to its author there are four complete cycles of 

septa (48), regularly arranged mith the third and fourth cycles uniting 

in the usual manner of carophylliicls, but no mention is made of pali. T. 

woolinaniis the only other species with which there are similarities. It is 

curious that no further specimens of Bolsche's little coral have turned 

up, for he states that it is common at JVoodbury. 

Range in New Jersoy- 

\\'OODBURY: Bft. Laurel well 

I\ZARSHALLTOWN : Woodhury 

Range outsirlo ATew Jersey- 

Georgia (12iplcy formation) ; Texas (Navarro formation). 

Type.-well at Mount Laurel, N. J. (cotypes) ; ANSP 685. 

Paracyafhus ? vaughani Weller 1907 

Paracyathas uaughani, Weller, 1907, p. 270, pl. 5, figs. 11-13, 23. 

Paracyathus ? vaughani, Wells, 1933, Bull. Amer. Paleont., vol. 18, 

p. 218. 

Description.-Corallum subcylindrical in form, with a broad spread- 

ing base so that the diameter of the basal disk by which it is attached is 

as great or greater than the thickest portion of the corallum ahove ; im- 

mediately ahove the base the outer wall contracts somewhat abruptly for 

a short distance, and then increases gradually in diameter to the summit. 

The calice is very deep, reaching almost to the base of the corallum. The 

outer surface of the theca is marked by about 40 longitudinal, finely 



denticulate costae, which continue across the expanded basal portion. 

The characters of the septa are not clearly shown in the type specimen, 

but they are apparently of the same number as the external costae. 

The dimensions of the type specimen are : diameter of corallum at 

base, 10 mm.; minimum diameter of corallum, 5.5 mm.; diameter of 

corallum at summit, 8 mm.; height of corallum, 14.5 mm. 

Remarks.-This species is very poorly known and it is impossible 

to figure the specimens suitably. The holotype shows little more than 

the general form, basal attachment, deep calice, and presence of about 

48 septa, of which the last cycle of 24 is very short,. 

Two additional specimens from hfullica Hill seem to belong here, 

but add little to our knowledge of the species. Both are unattached, a 

condition not of much taxonomic value in caryophylliid corals, slightly 

curved and compressed, cornute coralla, 12 to 19 mm. in height, 10 x 11 

and 9.5 x 11 mm. in calicular diameters, each with four more or less 

complete septa1 cycles (48 septa). One is the specimen figured without 

identification by Weller (1907, pl. 5, fig. 23), the other is a recently- 

collected worn corallum with exterior decorticiited, but fairly well- 

preserved internally: the calice is deep and the elongate, trabecular 

columella rises less than half way from base to summit; from the level 

of the columella downward the higher-cxcle septa unite regularly with 

lower cycles, but all are free internally from the columella upward. 

This specimen does not definitely show the presence of pali, and the 

reference of these specimens to Paracy athus remains unproven. 


NAVESINK : Mullica Hill 

Type.-Mullica .Hill, N. J. : NJSM 7544; other specimens ANSP 

19641. 


CRETACEOUS ANNELIDA OF NEW JERSEY 

by 

B. F. Ho- 

CLASS CHAETOPODA 

Family Serpulidae 

Serpula circularis Weller 1907 


Serpula circularis, Weller, 1907, p. 307, pl. 19, figs. 5-6. 

Description.-Tube rather lwge, moderately thick, increasing grad- 

ually in size, the increase being more rapid as it approaches the aper- 

ture, not closely coiled, the first volution of the type specimen forming 

a rather large irregular circle, after which the shell is in contact for 

about one-fourth volution nearly to the aperture. Another specimen 

is perhaps not in contact at all. Aperture more or less subcircular or 

subelliptical in outline. The surface of the shell is marked by more or 

less irregular, annular lines of growth. 

The dimensions of the type species are: greatest diameter of aper- , 

ture, 8 mm.; length of tube, 72 mm. ; greatest diameter of space within 

first volution, 13 mm. 

Remarks.-The type specimen is the only individual observed which 

is anywhere near complete, though other fragments indicate that the 

large open coiling of the tube was a common habit of growth. The type 

specimen was apparently attached to some large shell, probably a 

f3ryphaea, during life, by the flatter side. The species is rare, being 

known only from the specimens described by Weller in 1907. 


MARSHALLTOWN: 28 

Tape.-Swedesboro ; NJSM ; 7712. 

Hamulus falcatus (Conrad) 1869 

Plate 4, Figures 3,4, 6,7,9-11 

Dentalium fdcatum, Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 44, pl. 1. 

figs. 12 and 16. 

Dentalium falcatum, Whitfield, 1892, p. 169, pl. 20, figs. 12-17 (not 

fig. 18). 

Hamulus falcatus, Weller, 1907, p. 309, 22, figs. 11-12. 

Eamulus falcatus, Howell, 1943, p. 152, pl. 19, figs. 14-28. 

Description.-Tube curved in a half circle are in its earlier stages 

of growth, but becoming gradually less bowed in later stages and almost 

straight in the latest stage. The curvature of the tube is all in one 



plane: there is no torsion. The tube expands very gradually and evenly 

from the pointed initial end to the aperture. It consists of the two layers 

of calcium carbonate which are characteristic of Hantulus, an inner 

layer, whose inner and outer surfaces arc smooth, and an outer layer, 

whose inner surface is smooth, but whose outer snrfacc bears 6 irregular 

longitudinal ridges that increase in size and coarseness from the apex 

to the aperture and vary in the amount of their development in different 

individuals. The ridges are unevenly developed in all cases, but 

have relatively sharp crests, without distinct knobs, in the younger, 

smaller, stages of growth, and become somewhat knobby and sinuous 

in the older, larger, stages. They are, in general, equally spaced from 

each other and are roughly parallcl to the long axis of the tube. They 

vary in height in different individuals and are bluntly, not sharply, 

peaked in cross section. The largest specimens seen, which are incomplete 

examples of the fillings of tubes, have a diameter of a little more 

than Yi of an inch at the aperture and must hare measured as much as 

2 inches or more along the outside curve of the tube. The tubes differ 

from each other in the amount of their curvature, but all approach or 

reach a circular curve in their earlier stages of grolvt,h, even though 

they may become almost straight in their later stages. 

Remar1rs.-In spite of the variations in size and curvature and in 

the form of the ridges on the tube exhibited by the fossils of this kind 

found in the Rferchantville and Woodbury formations, they are all believed 

to hclong to the one species, IIQIIII~~IIS falcat~is. NO example of 

the operculu~n, itself, of this species has yet been discovered; but three 

tube fillings from New Jersey-ne frovn the Merchantville formation 

at RZaple Shade, the others from the Woodbnry formation at Crosswicks-in 

the collections of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 

(nos. 15267 and 14894 h) and of I'rinceton University (no. 

55800) carry impressions of the under side of the opereulum. Although 

the fillings of thc tubes of this species are not uncommon, only 

five examples showing any part of the tube, itself, have been found. 

Ranoe in Neui .Ter.cnu- . .. 

R~ERCHANTV~LLE : 15,16 

WOODBURP: 20, 22, 23 


Delaware, Mississippi. 

Type.--Crosswicks, N. J. ; ANSP 14891 cotypes. 

Hamulus wenonahanus Howell 1943 


Hantu1zi.s wenonohanus, Howell, 1943, pp. 157.158, pl. 20, figs. 1-3. 

Deswiptwn.-Tube gently tapering; posterior gently curved, the 

curvature less tlian in the corresponding portion of the tube of Hamu- 

lus falcatus, outer surface hearing 6 longitudinal ridges which are 


larger and more prominent than the ridges found on the outer surface 

of the tube of H. fdcatus. (Usually only the filling of the tube is pre- 

served.) 


MAI3SHALLTOWN : 28 

WENONAH : 34, 35 

NAVESINK: Between Mount Holly and Pemberton (Prinee- 

ton U.) 

Type.-llarlboro, N. J.; NJSM 9680. 

Hamulus squamosus Gabb 1859 

Plate 5, Figures 1, 2 

Hamulus squamosus, Gabh, 1859, Cat. of Invert. Fossils, in Proe. Aead. 

Nat. Sci. Phil., vol. 11, p. 3. 

Hamzclus squantosus, Wade, 1926, p. 45, 111. 10, figs. 6-7. 

Hantzilus sqziantosus, Stephenson, 1923, p. 250, pl. 92, fig. 1. 

Harnzclus sqziantosus, Stephenson, 1941, pp. 60-61, pl. 4, fig. 10. 

Ham~ckcs sqzlumaszis, Howell, 1948, p.2, figs. 3-5. 

Description.-Tube small, regularly tapering, posterior portion 

more or less strongly curved, anterior portion becoming straight, the 

curvature almost or entirely in one plane. The tube has on its outer 

surface 6 longitudinal ridges, two of ~vbieh ,on opposite sides of the 

tube, are extended laterally into flanges with irregularly serrated outer 

edges (presumably to prevent the tube from sinking into the mud). 

There is some variation in the size, form, sculpture, and degree of curvature 

of the tube in different individuals. 




Georgk, Alabama, Mississippi. 

Type.-Prairie Bluff, Ala. ANSP 16530 (cotypes). 

Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson 1923 

Plate 5, Figure 6, 9 

Dentaliurn folcat~~a~, Whitficld, 1892, Pal. N. J., vol. 2, p. 169, pl. 20, 

fig. 18 (not figs. 12-17). not of Conrad. 

Harniclus walkerensis, Stephenson, 1923, pp. 74-75, pl. 10, figs. 9-10. 

Han~ulus walkerensis, Howell, 1943, p. 159, pl. 20, fig. 4. 

Description.-The anterior portion of the tube is straight and gently 

tapering: the posterior portion is unknown. There are numerous low, 

broad transverse rldges extending lengthwise of the tube. The species 

is rare in New Jersey. 


CRETACEOUS FOSSILS 


WOODBURY: 20 

Tgpe.-North Carolina; USNM 31.468. 

Hamulus walkerensis praecursor Howell 1948 


HamuLw walkerensis praecursor, Howell, 1948, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 

Not. Nat., no. 202, p. 2, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-Only anterior portion of the tube is known, and this 

is known only from the filling of the tube. The subspecies appears to be 

similar to Hamulus walkerensis except that it is smaller than that 

species. It is known only from the Merchantville formation, whereas 

H. walkerensis is found in New Jersey only in the overlying Wood- 

bury formation. Like H. walkerenstk, 8. walkerensis praecursor is 

rare. 



Type.-Maple Shade, N. J. ANSP 16618. 

Hamulus major Oabb 1860 


Hamulus major, Qabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd ser. vol. 

4 p. 399, pl. 68, fig. 46. 

Hamulus major, Stephenson, 1923, p. 72, pl. 10, fig. 3-7. 

This species bas not been found in New Jersey but has been reported 

by Carter (1937, p. 253) from the Crosswicks formation (Merchant- 

ville) of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 

Range- 

Delaware, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas. 

Type.-ANSP 14831. 

Longitubus lineatus (Weller) 1907 

Plate 4, Figure 5, Plate 6, Figure 5 

Hadus lineatus, Weller, 1907, p. 310, pl. 19, fig. 7. 

Serpda lineata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 70, pl. 9, figs. 13-14. 

Longitubus lineatus, Howell, 1943, p. 161, pl. 20, figs. 9-21. 

Serpula f lineatus, Stephenson, 1941, p. 57, pl. 4, figs. 4-6. 

Description.-Tubes straight, or almost straight, tapering only a 

Little, up to 82 mm. in length, with a smooth interior wall and closely 

spaced, he, encircling ridges on the outer surface. Usually only the 

filling of the tube is preserved. 


ANNELIDA 

Range in New Jersey-- 

MERCHANTVILLE: 10, 15, 16 

WOODBURY: 20 

NEVESINK: 37,40,51 


Delaware, North Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas (?) 

Type.-Lenola, N. J. ; NJSM 7754 

Diploconcha cretacea Conrad 1875 


Diploconcha cretacea, Conrad, 1875, Geol. Surv. N. C. Rept. vol. 1 (in 

Kerr), App. A, p. 12, pl. 2, fig. 26. 

Diploconcha (Serpula?) cretacea?, Whitfield, 1892, pp. 170,171, pl. 20, 

fig. 25. 

Dentaliurn (Palcula) falcatuni, Whitfield, 1892, p. 169, pl. 20, figs. 

15-17 (not figs. 12-14, 18). 

Serpula whitfieldi, Weller, 1907, p. 308, pl. 19, fig. 2. 

Serpula whitfieldi, Ctardner, 1916, p. 746. 

Sl~rpula cretacea, Stephenson, 1923, p. 67 (part), pl. 9, figs. 1-12. (Not 

figs. 8, 9.) 

Surpula cretacea, Stephenson, 1941, p. 56, pl. 4, figs. 1-3. 

Diploconcha cretacea, Howell, 1948, p. 4, figs. 6-10. 

Description.-Curved, sometimes somewhat sinuous, gently tapering 

tubes composed of many thin concentric layers arranged as a series 

of truncated cones, one within the other. Outer surface of tubes marked 

by fine concentric lines of growth and, in the anterior portion, by 

coarser concentric ridges. Tubes 100 mm. or more in length. New 

Jersey specimens usually consist only of the fillings of tubes. 



NAVESINK : t 


Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, 

Texas. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C.; Cotypes ANSP 15866 a and b. 

Diploconcha harbisonae Howell 1943 


Hamulns ? f sp., Weller, 1907, p. 311, pl. 19, figs. 3-4. 

Serplua cretacea, ?, Stephenson, 1923, (part) p. 67, pl. 9, figs. 8-9. 

(not figs. 1-7, 10-12.) 

Diploconcha harbisonae, Howell, 1943, p. 159, pl. 20, figs. 6-8. 


CBETACEOUS FOSSILS 

Description.-Only the anterior portion of the tube is known. It 

is larger than the tube of Diploconcha cretacea Conrad. The inner 

surface of the tube is smooth. The outer surface bears a series of coarse, 

parallel, concentric ridges. The part of the tube that is known is 

straight and tapers a little. The species is known in New Jersey only 

from fillings of the tubes and from molds of the exterior of the tube. 

It is rare in this state. 


IVOODBURY: 20 (?) 

WENONAH: 34 


North Carolina 

Type.-Crawfords Corner, N. J.; NJSM 7677 

Filogmnula jerseyensis Howell new species 


Dr. Eugene S. Richardson, Jr., collected from the Dferehantville 

formation of Nev Jersey part of the filling of the shell of an unidcnti- 

fied snail that consists in part of a mass of the fillings of the curved 

tubes of a small species of tubieolons worms, the tubes, themselves, 

having been dissol~ed avay. These little fossils represent a species 

of worms not previously known. 

The tubes of this species were somewhat curved, 5 mm. or more in 

length, and about one-fourth of a millimeter in diameter. Their inner 

surfaces were smooth. Our specimens are packed together, and partly 

intertwined, in what was originally the cavity in the empty shell of 

the snail, so that the worm tubes must have filled the cavity completely 

when the worms were living. 

Location of types.-The cotypes and only known specimens are no. 

77354 in the paleontological collection of Princeton University. 

0cct~rrence.-AIerchantville formation, Upper Cretaceous, in the 

clay pit of the Graham Brick Company at Naple Shade, New Jersey. 

Discz~ssion.-Although Filogranula has been reported from Cre- 

taceous beds elsewhere, this is the first record of the genus from New 

Jersey. This species is considerably smaller than Filogranula socialis 

(Goldfuss) reported by Richards from the Upper Cretaceous in a nrell 

in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. 

INSERTAE SEDIS 

Halyminites major Lesquereux' 


Halyminites major, Lesquereux, 1873, U. S. Geol. Surv. of the Terri- 

tories, 6th Ann. Rept. p. 373. 

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1 by norace G. Rieharda. 


ANNELIDA 43 

Ilalyminites major, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, Delaware 

Geol. Surv. Bull. 3 p. 54, P1. 7, fig. 7. 

These tuhes have been variously identified as worm tubes, mollusk 

borings and remains of plant origin. They are widespread in Creta- 

ceous and Tertiary formations. Tubes, apparently this species, have 

been found in the Wenonah formation near Runnemede and Matawan, 

New Jersey, and in the same formation in the banks of the Chesapeake 

and Delaware Canal in Delaware. 

Thinner and more fragile tuhes, possible referable to H. major 

have been found in the Red Bank formation in Delaivare (Groot, et d, 

1954 p. 54). 

Tube or Burrow' 


, Weller, 1907, p. 311, pl. 19, fig. 1. 

, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 54, pl. 7, fig. 8. 

Tubes, somewhat less corrugated than those of N. major have been 

found in the Red Bank formation in the Chesapeake and Delaware 

Canal in Delaware and in the Red Bank and Tinton formations at Beers 

Hill (63). Weller believed that these vere "probably the casts of the 

burrows of some organism, probably one of the segmented worms." 

Xenohelix? jerseyensis Ramsdell n. sp.' 

Plate 90, figures 1,2 ' 

Description.-Specimen incomplete, the whorls at both ends having 

been broken away. Specimen consists of two whorls forming a loosely 

coiled, slightly tapering spiral ; whorls symmetrically and regularly 

coiled and equally spaced, whorl outline elliptical in cross section. 

Umbilicus-like depression at base of axis of coiling. A tubelike structure, 

here designated the peripheral tube, circular in cross section, 

extends around the outer margin of the spiral. 

Dimensions and measurements.-length, 154 mm: ; maximum width, 

98 mm. ; pitch of coiling, about 35" ; distance between coils, 50 mm. 

Remarks.-Type specimen unique. This species differs from other 

described species of this genus in the presence of the peripheral tube, 

in the looseness of coiling, and in its greater size. This specimen varies 

from those of Xenol~eliz mar#landica Mansfield and X.? utahensis Gilliland 

and LaRocque in lacking in cross section, the two distinct part* 

the peripheral wall and the central core-present in these latter species. 

An impressed area remains where the peripheral tube has been broken 

away from a portion of the upper whorl. 

'by Robert C. Ramsdell. 

'In Part I1 



The specimen was found in an upright position (so inferred) in as- 

sociation with several objects of questionable organic origin. 


MAGOTHY: 5 

Type.-Cliffwood Beach, N. J. ; Prin. Univ. 


CRETACEOUS ECHINOIDEA OF NEW JERSEY AND 

ADJACENT REGIONS.' 

by 

C. WYTIIE COOKE 

On the following pages are described all the echinoids known from 

the Upper Cretaceous deposits of the Atlantic Coastal Plain north of 

Virginia. The types of most of the species described were collected in 

New Jersey, but a few came from nearby Delaware and one from Mary- 

land. Though these latter mentioned species have not yet been found 

in New Jersey, they doubtless inhabited that region, and their remains 

may be discovered there at any time. One additional new species (Car- 

diaster hilli Cooke, n. sp.) from Texas is included because it closely re- 

sembles a form from New Jersey whose type is too poorly preserved 

to admit of sure identification, No other species is described as new. 

Most of the material studied is in the form of natural molds of the 

interior, all more or less broken and distorted. The type specimens of 

these species lack many of the features essential for accurate identi- 

fication and would better have been left unnamed. 

Three of the species were named by Samuel G. Morton in 1833 and 

were included in his "Synopsis of the organic remains of the Cretaceous 

group of the United States" (1834). Other echinoids included in that 

work and then supposed to be Cretaceous in age are now regarded 

as Paleocene. The other Cretaceous species were described by William 

Bullock Clark between 1891 and 1916. His principal reports are "The 

Mesozoic Echinodermata of the United States" (U. S. Geological Sur- 

vey Bull. 97,1893) and Part I of "The Mesozoic and Cenozoic Echino- 

dermata of the United States" (U. S. Geological Survey Monograph 

54,1915). The descriptions and figures from Clark's Bulletin 97 were 

used in 1907 by Stuart Weller in his "Cretaceous Palcontology of New 

Jersey," which included also descriptions of four new species by Clark. 

The descriptions and figures of all but the one new species in the 

present report are adapted, with little modification, from my paper on 

"American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea," wbich was published in 

1953 as U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-8. 

Faujasia geometrica (Morton) 


Clypeaster geometricus Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol. 24, 

p. 131, pl. 10, fig. 9. 

Clypemter geometricus Morton. Morton, 1834, Synopsis of the organic 

remains of the Cretaceous group, p. 76, pl. 10, fig. 9. 

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~Pvbliration authorid by the director. U.S. Geolezieal Survar. 

45 



Pygurz~s geometricus (Morton). Agassiz and Desor, 1847, Catalogue 

raisonnb des behinodermes, p. 141. 

Pygurus geometricus (Morton). D'Orbigny, 1856, Pal6ontologie franpaise, 

Terrain eretad, ser. 1, tome 6, p. 313, 111. 920, fig. 4 (after 

Morton). 

Pygums geometricus (Morton). Desor, 1858, Synopsis des 6chinides 

fossiles, p. 313. 

Pygurus geometricus (Morton). Clark, 1915, 1J. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 

54, p. 72. 

Cassidulidae, new genus (9) new species. Carter, 1937, Maryland 

Geol. Survey, vol. 13, p. 273. 

Pygurostoma geometricum (Morton). Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey 

Prof. Paper 254, p. 14, pl. 4, figs. 15-20. 

Faujasia geometrica (Morton). Cooke, 1955, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 264-E, p. 96. 

Paujasia geometries (Rlorton). Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, 

p. 40, pl. 3, fig. 2. 

Test large; upper surface inflated; lower surface somewhat concave 

; margin acutely rounded ; somewhat produced behind. Apical 

system in front of the center, probably monobasal, with four genital 

pores. Petals lanceolate, eqdal, extending more than halfway to the 

margin; poriferous zones nearly closed at each end, pores strongly 

conjugate, outer pores elongated, inner pores round. Peristome central ; 

bourrelets rounded at the base, hollow, probably rounded at the tips; 

phyllodes short and broad. Periproct small, apparently transversely 

oval, inframarginal, nearly terminal but not visible from above, slanting 

upward toward the rear. 

Length of type 56.4 mm. ; width 54 mm. ; height 25 mm. Length of 

figured specimen 55.5 mm. ; width 49 mm. ; height 25 mm. 

0cwrence.-Delaware: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (type) ; 

north side of Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 2,000 feet east of the 

railroad bridge (USGS 17753, Charles W. Carter, collector). 

Geologic h~rizon~hfarshalltomn formation ( 9). 

Type.-C. and D. Canal. Del. ANSP 1946. Figured specimen, 

USNM 108378. 

Remarks.-Carter's fieid label states that he found the specimen 

here figured (USNbf 108378) in place in the Crosswicks clay, presently 

the basal formation of the Matawan group, but his published report 

places it in the Marshalltown formation, the upper formation of that 

group. This discrepancy doubtless records a change in correlation as 

the result of later studies.' 

Although this species has not yet been reported from New Jersey, 

- 

1 Several individuals of thh specie. have recently been found in the Wenonah formation along 

the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and it ia poasihle that Carter's specimens were also fmm 

thh formation. H. G. R. 


ECHINOIDEA 47 

it is recorded here because it is a member of the Marshalltown fauna 

and presumably lived there. 

Catopygus pusillus Clark 


Catopygiis pi~sillus Clark, 1891, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ., vol. 10, 

no. 87, p. 67. 

Catopygt~s pusillus Clark. Clark, 1893, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ., 

701.12, no. 103, p. 52. 

Catopygus pusillt~s Clark. Clark, 1893, Ti. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 97, 

p. 65, p1. 27. figs. 3a-d. 

Catopygzis pz~sillzis Clark. IVeller, 1907, New Jersey Geol. Survey, 

Paleontology ser., vol. 4, p. 292, pl. 11, figs. 16-19 (after Clark). 

Catopygus pusiltus Clark. Clark, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 54, 

p. 73, p1. 29, figs. 3a-d. 

Phyllobrissz~s ptuilltrs (Clark). L'unbert and Thiky, 1921, Nomenclaure 

raisonnBe des bcbinides, fasc. 5, p. 351. 

Catopygus piisillz~s Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 

254, p. 15, pl. 5, figs. 1, 2. 

Outline nearly circular; npper surface moderately inflated, rostrate 

behind ; lower surface nearly flat ; margin evenly rounded. Apical 

,system nearly central. Petals straight, extending about halfway to 

the margin, open distally. Peristome not preserved. Periproct circular 

( ?), terminal, well up on the posterior end, vertical. 

Length of larger cotype 14 mm. ; width 13.3 mm. ; height 8.1 mm. 

Range in New Jersey.-MERCHANTVILLE. 

Type.--Wortlills, Monmouth County, X. J. USNM 2210. 

Con~parisons.-This species, represented by two eotypes and one 

other, all molds of the interior, is proportionately shorter than Catopygus 

carinatus (Goldfuss). 

Catopygus IOoIopygusl williamsi Clark 


Catopygus williamsi Clark in Weller, 1907, New Jersey Geol. Survey, 

Paleontology ser. vol. 4, p. 292, pl. 12, figs. 14. 

Catopygus ,williamsi Clark. Clark, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 54, 

p. 73, pl. 29, figs. 4a-d. 

Oolopygus willian~si (Clark). Lambert and ThiBry, 1921, Nomencla- 

ture raisonnBe des gchinides, fasc. 5, p. 354. 

Catopygus (Oolopzjgus) williamsi Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Sur- 

vey Prof. Paper 254, p. 16, pl. 5, figs. 7-10. 

Outline rounded in front, produced and laterally truncate behind; 



upper surface low-convex, highest behind the center; lower surface 

nearly flat; margin evenly rounded. Apical system nearly central; 

petals narrow, extending more than halfway to the margin; poriferous 

zones straight, open distally, about as wide as interporiferous zones. 

Peristome in front of the center. Bourrelets probably high, narrow, 

hollow. Periproct terminal, rostrate, longitudinally elongated, visible 

from below. 

Length 16.2 mm. ; width 21 mm. ; height 14 mm. 

Range in New Jersey.-NAVESINK: Bluff east of Atlantic High- 

lands (37). 

Type.-Atlantic Highlands, N. J.; USNM 103698. 

Geologic horizon.--Navesink marl. 

Type.-USNM 103698 (deposited by Johns Hopkins University, 

T 3010). 

Comparison.-Catopygus williamsi, represented only by the type, 

a mold of the interior, appears to be very similar to the species figured 

by dlOrbigny in 1860 under the nanie Ooloypgw pyriformis. 

Hardouinia florealis (Morton) 


Clypeaster florealis Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol. 23, p. 294. 

Ctypeaster florealis Morton. Morton, 1834, Synopsis of the organic 

remains of the Cretaceous group, p. 76, pl. 3, fig. 12; pl. 10, fig. 12. 

Pygurus floredis (Morton). Agassiz and D~:sor, 1847, Catalogue raisonn6 

des i?chinodermes, p. 141. 

Faujasia f7oredi.s (Morton). DIOrbigny, 1856, PalQontologie fraqaise, 

Terrain cri.tac6, ser. 1, tome 6, p. 319, pl. 920, figs 5, 6 (after Morton). 

Paujasia florealis (Morton). Desor, 1858, Synopsis des kchinides fossiles, 

p. 318. 

Cmsidz~1u.s floredis (Morton). hleek, 1864, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 

vol. 7, (177), p. 2. 

Cassidulus florealis (Morton). Clark, 1891, Johns Hopkius Univ. Circ., 

vol. 10, no. 87, p. 76. 

Cassidulus florealis (Morton). Clark, 1893, Johns Hopkins Univ. Circ., 

vol. 12, no. 103, p. 52. 

Cassidulus florealis (Morton). Clark, 1893, U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 97, 

p. 66, pl. 28, figs. la-I. 

Cassidubis florealis (Morton). Clark, 1915, U. S. Oeol. Survey Mon. 54, 

p. 74, pl. 30, figs. la-I. 

Procassidulus florealis (Morton). Lambert and ThiQry, 1921, Nomenclature 

raisonnke des Qchinides, fasc. 5, p. 361. 


ECHINOIDEA 49 

Paujasia florealis (Morton). Lambert and ThiEry, 1921, Nomenclature 

raisonnke des Echinides, fasc. 5, p. 374. 

Hardouinia florealis (Morton). Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 254, p. 23, pl. 8, figs 11-14. 

Horizontal outline subeircular; upper surfaee strongly inflated; 

highest point behind the apical system; lower surface flat or slightly 

concave; margin acute. Petals extending more than halfway to the 

margin; poriferous zones about as wide as the interporiferous. Peri- 

stome central; surrounded by five strong, pointed, hollow hourrelets; 

phyllodes longer than wide. Periproct oval, twice as high as wide, 

sunken, well up above the margin, opening into a shallow depression, 

which extends to the margin. 

Length 38.1 mm.; width 34.1 mm.; height 21.2 mm. 

Occurrence.-Delaware : Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 

Geologic horizon. -Exact horizon unknown; probably from the 

Marshalltown formation. 

Type.-Delaware and Chesapeake Canal, Del. ANSP 1495. 

Comparisons.-Hardouinia floredis, known only from internal 

molds, differs from IIardouinia mortonis (Miehelin), type of the genus, 

in the shape of its periproct, which is longitudinally elongated, not 

circular, and in the narrowness of its interporiferous zones. Its recog- 

nizable features closely resemble a tall variety of Hardouinia aoquoria 

(Morton), though the type of that species is much lower, its phyllodes 

are shorter, and its petals are somewhat shorter. The shape of its peri- 

proct allies Hardouinia jlorealis with H. micrococcus (Gabb), but that 

species is very much flatter, and its floscelle is smaller. 

Hardouinia mortonis emmonsi (Stephenson) 


?Cassiddus berryi Twitchell, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 54, p. 220, 

pl. 101, figs. 3a-d. 

?Haduuinia berryi, witchel ell). Lambert and ThiAry, 1921, Nomen- 

clature raisonke des kehinides, fasc. 5, p. 363. 

Cassidulus emmonsi Stephenson, 1927, U. S. Natl. Mus. Proc., vol. 72, 

art. 10 (no. 2706), p. 7, pl. 3, figs. 3-8; pl. 4, figs. 1-5. 

Hardouinn'al stetsoni Stephenson, 1936, Geol. Soc. American Bull., vol. 

47, no. 3, p. 371, pl. 1, figs. 24. 

Hardmink mortonis emmonsi (Stephenson). Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. 

Survey Prof. Paper 254-A, p. 20, pl. 5, figs. 22-24. 

Test medium-sized, upper surfaee tending to be slightly conical, 

rather low. Horizontal outline rounded in front, slightly produced 

behind. Margin angular. Lower surface somewhat concave near the 

peristome. Apical system central ; four genital pores. Petals narrowly 



. . 

laneeolate, extending little more than halfway to the margin. Peristome 

central, pentagonal, surrounded by strong pointed bourrelets and short, 

broad, depressed phyllodes. Periproct circular, sunken, opening into a 

conspicuous suleus, which extends to the margin. Differing from typical 

Harhinia mortonis in its smaller size and lower, more conical 

form. 

Occurrence.-New Jersey: &fataman. Occurs also from Georges 

Bank (H. stetsoni) to Texas. 

Geological harkon.-Wenonah formation. 

Type.-U. S. Nat. Mus. 73423, from North Carolina. 

Remarks.-Seven fairly well preserved individuals of this subspecies 

were collected ,by Frank Jfarkelvicz from Matawan (3311) in 1955. 

They closely resemble the typical form. The best specimen measures 

33 by 30.5 by 12.3 mm. 

Cardiaster smocki Clark 


Cardiaster smocki Clark in \Teller, 1907, New Jersey Geol. Survey, 

Paleontology ser., vol. 4, p. 298, pl. 13, figs. 9-11. 

Cardiaster mnocki Clark. Clark, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Iron. 54, p. 84, 

pl. 36, figs. 3a-e. 

Cardiaster smocki Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 

254, p. 28, pl. 11, figs. 8-10. 

This species, described from an imperfect mold of the interior, is 

unrecognizable ~vithout better preserved topotypes. Its shape resembles 

that of Cardiaster 11illi Cooke, from thc Anacacho limestone of. 

Texas, which may eventually prove to be the same species. 

Range in New Jersey.-MERCHANTVILLE : 8. 

Type.-2.5 miles northrest of Matawan, N. J. NJShI. 

Cardiaster hilli Cooke, n. sp. 


Cardiaster liil2i Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 254, p. 28 

(non~en nudurn). 

Test cordate, weakly emarginate in front, broadly truncated behind, 

with rounded margins. Upper surface inflated; highest point in front 

of the apex, thence sloping steeply forward and gently backward to 

the posterior truncation. Lower surface nearly flat. Peristonle at the 

anterior third. Periproct longitudinally elongated, rather large, erect. 

Length 29.7 mm. ; width 28.7 mm.; height 15 mm. 

Occurrence.-Texas: Cline Mountain, Uvalde County, 2 miles 

south of Cline station (types, USGS 357, R. T. Hill collector; USGS 


ECHINOIDEA 51 

1774, T. W. Vanghan, collector). Summit of hill north of Anacacho 

Mountain 3 or 4 miles north of Cline station (USGS 1613b, R. T. Hill 

and T. IV. Stanton, collectors). Quarry on Elm Creek, Kinney County 

(USGS 16760, J. A. Udden, collector). Kings Water Hole, 3 miles 

north of Hondo, Medina County (USGS 12902, L. W. Stephenson, 

collector). 

Geologic 1torizon.-Upper Cretaceous, Anacacho limestone. 

Types.-USNM 108792 (holotype and three paratypes). 

Caparisons.-This species has the shape of Cardioster smocki 

Clark, but the type of C. snloeki is too poorly preserved for detailed 

comparison. Cardimter deciper Cookc has a much longer, deeper, and 

sharper sulcns, and its posterior truncation is narrower. 

Remarks.-The holotype of Cardiaster hilli is too much corroded 

to show the apical system and the ambulacra plainly, and a marginal 

fasciole is not discernible on it. The specimens listed from USGS 16760 

and 12902, whose identification is somewhat doubtful, show traces of 

a marginal fasciole. 

A description of this species was inadvertently omitted from Pro- 

fessional Paper 254, though the name was mentioned in the discussion 

of Cardiaster smocki. It is inserted here because the species may provc 

to be Cardiaster smocki. 

Cardiaster morylandicus Clark 


Cardiaster n~arylandiczis Clark, 1916, Maryland Geol. Survey, Upper 

Cretaceous, p. 750, pl. 47, figs, 6-10, 

Cardiaster marylandic~~s Clark. Cooke, 1953, Ti. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 254, p. 28, pl. 14, figs. 1-5. 

Clark describes this species as follows: "Test small, cordate, with 

pronounced anterior grooves; upper face slightly convex, lower surface 

flat. Ambulacra wide. Apical system moderately elongated. Peristome 

very near anterior margin. Periproct oval and situated rather high 

on truncated posterior margin." 

"Length 18 mm.; width 18 mm. ; height 11.5 mm." 

Occurrence.-Maryland: Brightseat, Prince Georges County. 

Geologic horizon.7Monmouth formation. 

T,ype.-Maryland Geological Survey (apparently lost). 

Conlparison.-Clark compares this species with Cardiaster smocki, 

but finds it to be more sharply contracted posteriorly and to have "a 

more pronounced anterior surface". 

Remarks.-Although Cardiaster nlarylandicns has not yet been 

found in New Jersey, it should be looked for in the Tinton sand'memher 

of Red Bank sand, which is supposed to be of the same age as the 

Monmouth formation at Brightseat. 



Hemiaster ungula (Morton) 


Spatangus tcngula Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., ser. 1, vol. 24, p. 131, 

pl. 10, fig. 6. 

Spatangus z~ngula Morton. Morton, 1834, Synopsis of the organic remains 

of the Cretaceous group, p. 78, pl. 10, fig. 6. 

Micrasfer ungz'la (hlortonj. Agassiz in Agassiz and Desor, 1847, 

Catalogue raisonn6 des Bchinodermes (reprint), p. 141. 

Holasder ungula (Morton). Qabb, 1859, Cat. invert. foss. Cretaceous, 

p. 19. 

Not Hemiaster ungula (Morton). Clark, 1891, Johns Hopkins Univ. 

Circ., vol. 10, no. 87, p. 77. 

Not Hemiaster ungula (Morton). Clark, 1893, Geol. Survey Bull. 97, 

p. 88, pl. 46, figs. 2a-g. 

Not Hemiaster unnnla (Morton). Weller. 1907. New Jersev Geol. 

Survey ~alcontblogy series, vol. 4, p. 301, pl. 16, figs. 6-11: After 

Clark, 1893. 

Not Hentiaster ti.ugula (&lorton). Clark, 1915, IJ. S. Geol. Survcy 

Mon. 54, p. 93, pl. 48, figs. 3a-g. 

Not Hemiaster (Gregoryastw) ungt~la (Morton). Lambert and ThiEry, 

1924, Nomenclature raisonnke des Qchinides, fasc. 7, p. 503. 

Hemiaster ungula (Morton). Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Snrvey Prof. 

Paper, 254, p. 34, p1. 14, figs. 10-14. 

Horizontal outline cordate, with a weak frontal furrow, vertically 

truncated behind. Petals sunken. Anterior paired petals extending 

more than halfway to the margin, diverging at an angle of nearly 90". 

Posterior petals shorter, less diverging. Peristome transversely oral, 

apparently strongly lipped. l'eriproct oval, well up on the posterior 

truncation. 

Occurrence.-Delaware: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal. 

Geologic horizon.-Upper Cretaceous, formation nnknolvn. 

Type.-C. and D. Canal, Del. ANSP 1503. 

Remarks.-This species is based on a mold of the interior, which is 

somewhat crushed and partly broken. Clark's drawings, which were 

copied by lTrellcr, ostensibly represent the type, but they were probably 

made from specimens of a Paleocene species from Tincentown, 

New Jersey, in the Philadelphia Academy (no. 1502). 

"Hemiaster" kiimmeli Clark 


Hemiaster kiimmeli Clark in Weller, 1907, New Jersey Geol. Survey, 

Paleontology ser., vol. 4, p. 303, pl. 17, figs. 1-3. 


ECHINOIDEA 53 

Hemiaster kiimmeli Clark. Clark, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 54, 

p. 97, pl. 52, figs. 1-3. 

Hemiaster kummeli Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 254, p. 35, pl. 13, figs. 5, 6. 

This species is based on a badly crushed mold of the interior having 

rather long posterior petals much like those of Hemiaster tezanus 

Roemer. It is unrecognizable without better-preserved topotypes. 

Range in New Jersey.-WOODBURY: Lorillard (18). 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J. NJSM. 

Hemiaster delawarensis Clark 


Hemiasto de1awure~~~i.s Clark, 1916. Naryland Geol. Survey, Upper 

Cretaceous, 1). 751, pl. 47, figs. 11-14. 

Hemiaster delawaronsis Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. 

Paper 254, p. 35, pl. 14, figs. 6-9 (after Clark). 

This species, known only from the type, which appears to have 

been mislaid or lost, is described by Clark as follows: 

"Test small, nearly circular, slightly cordiform, truncated posteriorly; 

upper surface slightly convex, elevated posteriorly; lower surface 

nearly flat; sides inflated; apex nearly central, slightly posterior 

of the center; amhulacra slightly depressed, posterior pair short, anterior 

surface broad. Peristime slightly depressed. Periproct small, 

high above posterior margin. Peripetalous fasciole narrow, distinct." 

"Length 22 mm.; width 22 mm.; height 17 mm." 

Occurrence.-Delaware: Marl pit south side of Chesapeake and 

Delaware Canal, 1 mile east of St. Cteorges. 

Geologic horizon.-Probably from the Mount Laurel sand (Clark 

says Matawan formation). 

Type.-Johns Hopkins University (fide Clark). 

Comparison.-The figures of the type, which I have not seen, resemble 

Hemiaster wctherb,yi de Loriol, a very common species in the 

Prairie Bluff chalk and equivalent formations of the Southern States, 

but the posterior petals of R. delawarensis seem to be proportionately 

shorter and its fasciole less indented. 

Hemiaster welleri Clark 


Hemiaster welleri Clark in Weller, 1907, New Jersey Geol. Survey, 

Paleontology ser., 701. 4, p. 302, pl. 17, figs. 4-6. 

Hemiaster welleri Clark. Clark, 1915, U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 54, 

p. 98, p1. 52, figs. 2a-e. 



Hentiaster (1ntegraster)welleri Clark. Lambert and Thikry, 1924, 

Nomenclature raisonnke des kchinides, fase. 6, p. 504. 

Hentiaster welleri Clark. Cooke, 1953, U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 

254, p. 35, pl. 14, figs. 15-11. 

This species is based on a broken mold of the interior, which lacks 

the apical system and the posterior petals. It is unrecognizable without 

better-preserved topotypes. In general appearance it resembles Hemi- 

aster wetlberbyi de Lori01 and H. arcolensis Cooke, both of which occupy 

higher horizons in Alabama. 

Range in New Jersey.-MERCHANTVILLE : 10e 

Type.-1 mile south of Lower Jameshurg, N. 3. NJSM 


CRETACEOUS BRACHIOPODA OF NEW JERSEY 

by 

Horace Q. Richards 

ORDER ATREIZATA 

Family Lingulidae 

Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek 1856 


Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek, 1856, RZem. Amer. Acad. Arts 

and Sci. n. ser. vol. 5, p. 380, pl. 1, fig. 2 a-b. 

Lingz~la subspatzalata, IVeller, 1907, p. 356, pl. 27, fig. 20-21. 

P Lingula slabspatulata, Stephenson, 1953, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

242 p. 54, pl. 10, figs. 1-3. 

Description.-Shell subelliptical in outline, pointed posteriorly and 

more or less subtruncate anteriorly, the lateral margins wbparallel, 

the antero-lateral angles rounded. Surface marked by fine, concentric 

lines of growth, some of which are more conspicuous than others. The 

dimensions of one of the largest individuals observed are: length 19 

mm., width 10 mm. (Weller) 

Rcn~arks.-Formerly common at Lorillard, but not found during 

recent years. According to Weller, one specimen is more slender, more 

pointed posteriorly, and more rounded anteriorly, resembling L. 

nitida Meek and Hayden from the Fox Rills formation of the Western 

Interior. IIolvever, it is regarded as a distorted form of L. spattrlata. 


WOODBURP: 18, 20, 24 

Type-Near Red Cedar Island, 35 miles below Ft. Pierre, S. D., 

' AMNH 9340/1 (cotypes). 

Range outside New Jersey-Texas, Nebraska, New Mexico. 

ORDER TELOTREMATA 

Family Terebratulidae 

Terebratulina atlantica (Morton) 1842 


Terebratula atlantica Morton, 1842, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1st 

ser. vol. 8, p. 214. 

Terebratulina halliana Gabh, 1861, Prod. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. 9 

p. 19. 

Terebratulina atlantica, Whitfield, 1886, p. 9-11 (part) pl. 1 fig. 11, 12 

(not fig. 10,13 = T. manasquani Stenzel) 



Terebratulina atlantica, Hollick, 1892, Trans N. Y. Acad. Sci. Vol. 11 

p. 98, fig. 8. 

Terebratulim atlantica, Weller, 1907, p. 360 (part) not pl. 28, figs. 

9-12 = T. manasquani. 

Not Terebratula glossa Conrad in Cook. Geol. N. J. p. 377, fig. 3, p. 723. 

Not T. glossa Conrad, 1869, Amer. Jour. Conch. vol. 5, p. 42, pl. 1, fig. 22. 

Description.-Shell ovate, values equally convex with numerous, 

distinct, and bifurcating striae, most prominent in the umbo; foramen 

large ; beaks not incurved. Length of the largest specimen five-eighths 

of an inch; width half an inch. 

Remarks.-This species has been greatly confused in the literature 

and was recently straightened out by Stenzel (1942). Terebratula 

atlantica was originally described by Morton from the Woodward farm 

near Walnford, N. J. and was eollectcd together with Exogyra costata, 

Cfryphaea, Belemnitella and Ckoristothryis plicata, all characteristic 

Cretaceous species. 

Stenzel analyzes the evidence and points out the probability that 

Gabb in 1861 redescribed the type specimen of T. atlantica and called it 

T. halliana. He also calls attention to the fact that two Tertiary species 

of terebratulids have been confused with Teretratulina atlantica. Tcre- 

bratula glossa Conrad, described from the "green marl of the Upper 

Bed" (= Manasquan) and placed in the synonomy of Terebratulina 

atlantica by Whitfield and Weller is probably not a Terebratulina and 

should be removed from the synonomy. Other specinlens of Terebratu- 

lina described by Whitfield and Weller from marl pits one mile south 

of Farmingdale, N. J. (Manasquan formation) and placed in the synon- 

omy of T. atlantica were placed in the new species Terebratnlina man- 

asquani by Stenzel (p. 728). 

Range in. New Jersey- 

NAVESINE : 46 

Type.-Woodward Farm near Willnford, N. J. ; ANSP 19607 

(type of T. halliana Gabb and probably also type of T. atlantica 

Morton). 

Family Terebratellidae 

Chorirtothyris plicata (Say) 1820 

Plate 9, Figures 5-8, 13 

Terebratula plicata Say, 1820, Amer. Jour. Sci. 1st ser. vol. 2, p. 43. 

T. Sayi Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U. S. p. 71, pl. 3, 

figs. 34. 

T. plicato, Whitfield, 1886, p. 12, pl. 1, figs. 5-9. 

T. plicata, Weller, 1907, p. 364, pl. 27, figs. 1-11. 

C. plkata, Cooper, 1942, Jour. Wash. Aead. Sci. Pol. 32, p. 233. 


BRACHIOPODA 

Description.-Shell subcircular or subovate in outline, pointed 

posteriorly and rounded in front, strongly ~licated, each valve marked 

by from 8 to 12 or more sharply angular plications which extend to the 

beak; usually a little wider than long but sometimes longer than wide; 

the dimensions of four specimens are : length, 14.5 mm., 15.5 mm., 1! 

mm., 17.5 mm.; width, 16 mm., 15 mm., 20 mm., 16.3 mm.; thickness 8 

mm., 9 mm., 10 mm., 9.5 mm. Pedicle valve strongly convex, with a 

small, nearly erect beak; cardinal area of moderate size, sharply defined, 

slightly concave, with a broad delthyrium partially closed by a 

pair of deltidial plates leaving a large circular foramen; interiorly the 

diductor muscular impressions are rather strong and flabellate, occupying 

the upper third of the ral\~e \vhich is considerably thickened. 

Brachial valve flattened or but moderately convex, often with a broad, 

ill-defined mesial sinus usually occupied by a single strong plication, 

but sometimes by from three to five smaller ones; internally the valve 

is much thickened in the cardinal region, the cardinal process is prominent, 

being bilobed or trilobed, with the hinge-plates well developed 

on either side, the crura originate in front of and between the bases of 

the hinge-plates at a moderate distance apart, they are directed forward 

and outward, each one giving origin to a crural process a short 

distance from the hinge-plate, which points inward and forward, 

the brachidium is formed by rather broad primary lamella? which 

curve outward from the crural extremities and describe an incomplete 

subcircle of nearly one-half the diameter of the valve; anteriorly they 

are sharply recurved and returned at a short distance above the main 

portions, bang united by a transverse band just in front of the crural 

processes; the main portions of the loop are united to the median 

septum which originates in front of the cardinal process, by a transverse 

plate near the end of the septum and just in front of the middle 

of the loop. Surface of the shell marked by numerous strong concentric 

lines of growth crossing the plications. Shell structure strongly 

and ~inutely punctate, the punctre arranged in quincunx. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Specimens in which the brachidium 'of this species 

can be observed are not common, but those which have ben observed 

show that this structure varies consiclerably in the proportions of its 

different parts. The species is especially characteristic of the Navesink 

marl where it sometimes occurs in great numbers, and has not 

been observed in any other formation. It is not closely related to any 

other American form except T. vanuxemi from which it can be easily 

distinguished by its strongly angular plications. 

Cooper (1942, p. 233) set up the new genus Choristothyris with 

Terebratula plicata Say as the genotype. The reference specimens 

were USMN 2395 and 103556. 

Stephenson (1948, p. 120) has recently reported this species from 

the Hammond well near Salisbury, Maryland at 1362 feet. The section 

is referred to the Navesink. 




NAVESINK: 37, 39, 40, 41,42,45, 46, 48, 49, 50, 53 

Type.-"New Jersey" 

Type of T. sayi: Burlington County, N. J. ANSP 19477. 

Choristothyris vanuxemi (Lyell and Forbes) 1844 


Terebratula vanuxemi Lyell and Forbes, 1844, Proc. Geol. Soc. 

London. Vol. 4, p. 308 and figs. 

Terebratella vanuxemi, Whitfield, 1886, p. 14, pl. 1, figs. 1-4 

Terebratella vanuxe)ai, Weller, 1907, p. 344, pl. 27, figs. 12-13 

Description.-Shell subovate in outline, pointed posteriorly and 

rounded anteriorly, each valve marked by from 15 to 23 rather faint, 

rounded plications, some of which divide in passing from the beak 

to the front margin; longer than wide, the dimensions of two in- 

dividuals being: length, 16 mm., 11.5 mm.; width, 14 mm., 11 mm.; 

thickness, 8.5 mm., 5.2 mm. Pedicle valve rather strongly convex, 

usually somewhat flattened along the median line, with a small, nearly 

erect beak, the cardinal area of moderate size, sharply defined, slightly 

concave, with a broad delthyrium partially closed by a pair of dcltidial 

plates, leaving a large foramen. Brachial valve depressed convcx 

in younger individuals, becoming more convex with age, so that in 

some old examples the convexity is almost as great as that of the 

pedical valve, usually with a more or less ill-defined mesial flattening 

or shallo!v sinus occupied by from t\vo to four plications. Snrface of 

the shell marlied at intervals by rather strong, concentric lines of 

growth. Minute structure of the shell strongly punctate. 

Renrarks.-This species has its closest relations wit11 the associated 

C. plicata, but it may be easily distingnislied from that species by its 

smaller size, its more elongate form, its more numerous and fainter 

plications, and usually in the larger individuals by the more strongly 

convex brachial valve. Both these species occur in the Navesink marl, 

and neither has heen found in any other horizon. C. vanuxenli is much 

the rarer form, and in its typical form has not been observecl to occur 

actually in association with C. plicata, but in a bed several feet be- 

neath the horizon of that species. (Weller) 


NAVESINK : 41 

Type.-"New Jerse?~" 


CRETACEOUS PELECYPODA OF NEW JERSEY 


Family Nuculidae 

Nucula percrassa Conrad 1858 

Plate 10, Figures 1, 2, 4 

Nucz~la percrmsa Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2ndser. 

vol. 3, p. 327, pl. 35, fig. 4 

Donm fordii Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch. vol. 5, p. 102, pl. 9, fig. 25. 

Nucula percrassa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 102, pl. 11, figs. 4-6. 

Nucula percrassa, Weller, 1907, p. 369, pl. 29, figs. 1-5. 

Nucula percrassa, Wade, 1926, p. 39, pl. 8, figs. 1-4. 

Doscription.--Shell moderately convex, attaining a large size for 

the genus, the largest New Jersey specimen observed being: length, 

32 mm., and height about tmo-thirds the length. Shell subelliptical 

in outline, the beaks situated at about the anterior third of the shell, 

the greatest length of the shell at about the mid-height. Anterior 

margin obliquely subtruncate above, the anterior extremity of the 

shell subangular; basal margin between the two extremities of the 

shell usually regularly rounded, sometimes more or less obscurely 

obliquely subtruncate in front and sometimes somewhat straightened 

ventrally; posterior margin more or less sharply rounded; the postero- 

dorsal margin gently convex or nearly straight. Valves regularly 

convex, antero-dorsal slope rather abrupt, passing into the rather 

large lunular depression. Surface of the shell marked by more 01. 

less irregular concentric lines of growth, and by fine, regular, radiat- 

ing costze, narrower than the interspaces, which are more strongly de- 

veloped on the anterior portion of the shell. The shell substance thick. 

Teeth strong, about 20 posterior and 8 or 10 anterior to the beak, 

both series di~riinishing in size as they approach the beak. Well ire, 

served internal casts preserve strongly defined muscular impressions 

and pallial line, and are strongly crenate about the free margin. 

(Weller) 

Remarks.-Whitfield considered N. percrassa and N. slackiano as 

distinct, but a careful study of the material convinced Weller that 

they were cospecific. Oabb had also expressed this view in 1876. Weller 

also regarded Donas fordii as an imperfect and somewhat distortea 

example of N. percrassa. In the Marshalltown formation near Swedesboro, 

the shell substance is perfectly preserved, but in other localities 

the specimens are usually in the form of casts. 

Garduer (1916, p. 513) discusses the differences between Nipercrassa 

and N. slackiana: "Nz~cula slackiana runs higher and heavier 

69 



than the Nucula percrassa of Conrad. A typical example from Mary- 

land (N. slackiana) measures 33.8 mm. in length and 23 mm. in 

altitude, while one from Ripley (N. percrassa) measnres 25.3 mm. in 

length and 19.5 mm. in altitude. The umbones are less prominent in 

the northern species, less convex and feebly opisthogyrate, the lunule 

and escutcheon less sharply differentiated and the ventral margin 

leaa flattened. . . . " 

Wade reports N. percrassa common at Coon Creelr, Tennessee. 

A further study of all specimens of both N. percrassa and N. slacki- 

am should be made to determine the exact distribution of these two 

species in New Jersey and elsewhere. It is possible that some of the 

casts reported from New Jersey as N. percrassa should more correctly 

he referred to N. slackiana. 

Rnrlge in ~Vew Jersey- 

MAGOTW: 5 

MERCHANTVILLE : 10,15,17 

WOODBURY: 18,24 

RIARSRALLTOm : 28 

WENONAH : 35 

Range outside New Jersey.-Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tenn- 

essee. 

Type.-Oml Creek, Mississippi. ASS1' 16710; type of Donaz 

fordii Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 19700. 

Nucula slackiana (Gabb) 1860 


Leda slackiana Gabb 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., vol. 4, 

p. 397, pl. 69, fig. 36. 

Nucula slackiana, Whitfield, 1886, p. 103, pl. 11, figs. 2-3. 

Nucula percrassa, Weller, 1907, (part) pp. 369-71 

Nucula slackiana, Gardner, 1916, p. 511, pl. 19, figs.1-4 

Description.-Inequilateral (casts) ; nluscular scars large and 

deep; margin crenate; cardinal line apparentIy curved, basal irregul- 

arly rounded; hinge teeth apparently large, cup very distinct, pallial 

line very distinct. 

Remarks.-For comparison with N. percrassa see under that 

species. 


WOODBURY: 20, 24 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware. 

Type.-Crosswieks, N. J. ANSP 19876. 


PELECYPODA 

Nucula whitfieldi Weller 1907 


Nucula whitfieldiweller, 1907, p. 371, pl. 29, figs. 6-12. 

Description.-Shell triangularly subovate in outline, with moderately 

conrex valves; the beaks pointed, situated from one-fifth to onefourth 

the length of the shell from the anterior extremity; posterodorsal 

margin moderately convex from the beak to the somewhat sharp- 

ly rounded ~osterior extremity of the shell which is below the mid- 

height; ventral margin conrex throughout, curving upward more 

rapidly in front than behind; anterior margin rounded; antero- 

dorsal margin sloping somewhat abruptly from the beak. Hinge-line 

with 20 to 25 teeth posterior to the beak and 10 or 12 in front, with 

a few small ones directly beneath the beak. Surface of the shell 

marked by somewhat regular concentric lines. Surface of the casts 

usually smooth and without marginal crenulations. 

The dimensions of a rather large individual from the wenonah 

sand are: length, 21 mm; height, 15.5 mm. (Weller) 

Remarks.-The species differs from N. percrmsa in the absence of 

radiating costae upon the external surface of the shell, and in the ab- 

sence of marginal crenulations. 


MAGOTHY: 5 

MERCHANTVILLE : 8, 9, 10, 15 

WOODBURY: 19, 20, 24 

WENONAH : 34,35 

RED BANK: 59,60 

Type.-Marlboro, N. J. NJSM (cotype), Lorillard, N. J. NJSM 

7732 (cotype), Crawfords Corner 7685, Chicago 18661 

Family Nuculanidae 

Nuculana compressifrons Whitfield 1886 


Nuculana compressifrons Whitfield, 1886, p. 109, pl. 11, fig. 9. 

Leda con~pressifrons Weller, 1907, p. 372, pl. 29, figs. 13-17. 

Description.-Shell small, the dimensions of an average specimen 

from Lorillard being: length, 8.5 mm., height 4 mm. Beaks rather 

prominent, situated near the anterior third of the shell. Posterior 

portion of the shell, from the beaks hack, subcuneate in outline, the 

posterior extremity sharply rounded, and just below the extremity the 

margin is very obliquely subtruncate for a short distance; anterior 

portion of the shell in front of the beaks subsemielliptical in outline. 

Hinge-line elongate, the anterior and posterior portions widely diver- 

gent, meeting under the beak at an angle of about 140', the posterior 



row of teeth, 20 or more in number, the anterior row with about 12 or 

more teeth. External surface of the shell, as indicated by impressions, 

perfectly smooth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This name was first legitimately used by Whitfield, al- 

though that author credits it to Conrad. Conrad, however, only applied 

it as a manuscript name upon a label in the collection of the Academy 

of Natnral Sciences. Whitfield's original illustration is inaccurate in 

representing the posterior extremity of the shell too squarely truncate. 


MERCHANTVILLE: 10 

WOODBURY : 18,20, 24 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 18730 

Nuculana pinnaformis (Gabb) 1860 


Leda pinnnforma Gabb, 1860, Jonr. Acad. Rat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., vol. 

4, p. 303, p1. 48, fig. 22. 

Nuculana pinnaformis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 108, pl. 11, fig. 7. 

(Not 8 = type of Leda tuhitfieldi fide Gardner.) 

Leda pinnaformis, Weller, 1907, p. 373, pl. 29, fig. 27. 

Description.-Shell small, the dimensions of the type specimen 

being : length, 6.5 mm. ; height, 4.7 mm. ; cuneate-subovate in outline,the 

anterior margin rather broadly rounded, the ventral margin rather 

strongly convex in the middle, the posterior extremity pointed; valves 

strongly ventricosc in the middle, becoming compressed posteriorly. 

Beaks large and rather prominent, situated about two-fifths of the 

length of the shell from the anterior extremity; along the postero- 

cardinal margin the edge of the shell is inflected to form a narrow, 

nearly linear area extending from the beak to the posterior extremity. 

Surface of the shell marked by conspicuous, regularly concentric lines 

which become obsolete at the margin of the linear area along the post- 

- 

cardinal margin. Characters of the hinge-line not observed. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Known only from Gabb's original type specimen. The 

species may be recognized by its short, ventrieose form, and its strong 

concentric markings. 


WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-Burlington County, N. J. ANSP 19519. 

Nuculana rnarlboroensis (Weller) 1907 


Leda marlboroensis Weller, 1907, p. 374, pl. 29, figs. 18-23. 


PELECWODA 

Description.-Small shell, the dimensions of a small internal east 

being: length, 6 mm. ; beight, 3-5 mm. : convexity, 1.5 mm. The dimen- 

sions of a larger individual are: length, 13.5 mm. ; height, 7.5 mm. ; 

convexity, 2 mm. Beaks rather prominent, directed backward, situated 

about two-fifths the length of the shell from the anterior end. Anterior 

portion of the shell in front of the beaks, subsemielliptical in outline, 

somewhat inflated; posterior portion compressed, rostrate, the postero- 

dorsal margin concave, the posterior extremity sharply and narrowly 

rounded, the postero-ventral margin gently convex. Hinge-line elon- 

gate, the anterior row of teeth straight, about 12 in number; posterior 

row slightly concave, with 16 or 18 teeth. Surface of the shell as shown 

in impressions of the exterior, marked by fine, regular, concentric eostse. 

(Weller) 

Remarks.-This species has been confused with A'. pinnaformis, but 

N. marlboroensis has a decidedly more elongated form. It may be dis- 

tinguished from other species in the New Jersey fauna by its conspieu- 

ously inflated anterior portions and its compressed posterior regions. 

Stephenson (1923, p. 84) says that Weller's specimens should probably 

be referred to several species. 


WENONAH : 34, 35. 

Type.-Crawfords Corner, N. J. (cotypes) NJSM 9686; Marlboro, 

N. J. (cotypes) NJSM 9687; IJniv. Chicago 18660. 

Nuculana tintonensis (Weller) 1907 


Leda tintonensis Weller, 1907, p. 379, pl. 29, figs. 31-34. 

Description.-Shell small, the dimensions of an internal cast being: 

length 10 mm., beight 5 mm., convexity 1.5 mm. Beaks rather promi- 

nent, nearly erect or pointed slightly backward, situated a little over 

two-fifths of the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. An- 

terior portion of the shell semielliptical in outline; posterior portion 

subcuneate behind; the posterodorsal margin nearly straight or slightly 

concave; the posterior margin curving downward and forward into the 

basal margin so that the whole ventral margin from the posterior ex- 

tremity of the hinge-line to the middle of the anterior margin, describes 

nearly the are of a eirele. Anterior series of teeth straight or slightly 

convex, about 10 or 12 in number; posterior series nearly straight or 

slightly concave, about 15 or 16 in number. Surface of casts smooth, 

external surface of shell unknown. (Weller) 

,Remarks.-Differs from N. gabbaluz in having much coarser teeth, 

there being 25 posterior and 20 anterior in A'. gabbana, which is nearly 

twice as many as in the shell under discussion. 


I TINTON : 62 



Type.-Beers Hill, N. J. NJSM 7499; Univ. Chicago 18695 

(cotypes). 

Nuculana protext. (Gahb) 1860 


Ledaprotezta Gahh, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., ser. 2nd, vol. 4, 

p. 303, pl. 48, fig. 23 (Not Leda protexta Gahh, Jour. ANSP 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 397, pl. 68, fig. 35). 

Nuculana protezta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 105, pl. 11, fig. 10. 

Leda protezta, Weller, 1907, p. 375, pl. 29, fig. 26. 

Nuculanaprotezta, Groat, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 40. 

Description.-"Shell very elongate and narrow, the narrow end 

about once and a half as long as the wider, and strongly recurved. Valves 

moderately ventricose and the beaks only moderately elevated; anter- 

ior end narrowly rounded and the posterior extremity extended and 

narrow; basal line gibbous in the middle. On the cast the hinge is 

seen to be marked by avery large number of small teeth, hut the number 

cannot he made out on any of the several specimens examined. The 

cartilage pit beneath the beak has been of moderate size. Surface fea- 

tures of the shell unknown." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species is only known from somewhat imperfect 

internal casts which do not show the external features of the shell. The 

species differs from any other member of the genus in the New Jersey 

faunas with a similar outline in having much more strongly ventri- 

cose valves. The species has not been found in recent collections of 

the Survey.. 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 47, 53 


Type.-Qloucester County, N. J. ANSP 18729. 

Nuculana cliffwoodensis (Weller) 1907 


Leah cliffwoodenris Weller, 1907, p. 377, pl. 29, figs. 24-25. 

Description.-Shell elongate, the dimensions of a nearly perfect 

internal cast being: length, 21.5 mm. ; height, 9 mm. ; thickness, 3.5 mm. 

The beaks moderately pointed and directed backward, situated about 

four-tenths of the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. 

Anterior portion of the shell in front of the beaks, subsemielliptical in 

outline, postero-dorsal margin concave, porterior extremity suhtrun- 

cate, rounding rather abruptly below into the gently convex postero- 

ventral margin. Hinge very long, the anterior portion nearly straight, 


PELECYPODA 

with about 20 teeth, the posterior portion concave, with 30 or more 

teeth, the teeth of each series diminishing in size regularly as they 

approach the beaks, the two series meeting beneath the beaks in a very 

broadly obtuse angle. Surface of the shell, as indicated by external 

impressions, smooth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species is a common one in the Cliffwood clays. It 

is an elongate form of rather large size, somewhat similar in general 

outline to L. protezta, but it may always be distinguished from that 

species by its niuch more compressed form. The species most closely 

resembles Porrisonuta protezta, but it differs from that form in the 

much more posterior position of the beaks. 


MAGOTHY: 6 

Type.-Cliffwood, N. J. NJSM 7781. 

Nuculana longifrons (Conrad) 1860 

Plate 10, Figure 14; Plate 11, Figure 3 

Leda longifrons Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 281, pl. 46, fig. 18. 

Nuculana longifrons, Whitfield, 1886, p. 107, pl. 11, figs. 16-17. 

Yoldia longifrons, Weller, 1907, p. 381, pl. 30, fig. 5. 

I'olida longifrons, Gardner, 191fi, p. 518, pl. 19, fig. 13. 

Yoldia longifrons, Waile, 1926, p. 41, pl. 8. figs. 13-14. 

Nuculana longifrons, Stephenson, 1941, p. 78, pl. 8, fig. 25. 

A'uculana longifrons, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 41. 

Description.-The dimensions of an average specimen are: length, 

36 mm., height, 14.5 mm. ; convexity, 4.5 mm. Shell longitudinally sub- 

elliptical in outline, a little narrower behind than in front. Beaks 

scarcely elevated above the hinge-line, situated about two-fifths the 

length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Anterior and posterior 

cardinal margins sloping away from the beak on either side, meeting in 

an angle of 150' to 155' ; anterior margin broadly rounded, its most 

anterior extension above the mid-height of the shell ; posterior margin 

more narrowly rounded, its greatest extension above the middle ; ven- 

tral margin gently convex in the middle, curving upward more sharply 

at either end. Impression of the hinge-line in the internal cast bearing 

about 35 or more



WOODBURY: 18,19,20,24 

Range outside A'ew Jerse,~: Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, Ala- 

bama, Arkansas, Texas, Afississippi. 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 18726. 

Nuculana whitfleldi Gardner 1916 

Plate 18, Figure 7-9 

Nuculana pinnafornlis, Whitfield. 1885, (part) p. 108, pl. 11, fig. 

8 (not fig. 7=N. pinnaformis, Gabb). 

Leda whitfieldi, Gardner, 1916, p. 516, pl. 19, figs. 10-12. 

Leda whitfieldi, Wade, 1926, p. 41, pl. 19, figs. 10-12. 

Leda pinnafornlis, Weller, 1907, (part) p. 373, (not fig. 27=N. 

pinnafonnis Gabb) . 

Description.-Shell small, convex, cuneate dorsally, arcuate ven- 

trally, forming roughly a sector of 120° ; posterior end more produced 

than the anterior and sharply rostrate ; anterior end evenly rounded ; 

nmbones inflated, flattened upon their summits; incurved, proximate ; 

external adult sculpture of twenty to thirty concentric rugae, strongest 

and most cromded toward the ventral margin, altogether absent upon 

the umbones and evanescent in the slightly depressed area directly in 

front of the rostrum; teeth fine but sharp becoming increasingly finer 

and convergent beneath the umbones; both anterior and posterior 

series numbering from thirteen to seventeen; ligament pit trigonal, 

minute, subumbonal; muscle scars small, placed at the distal ends of 

the hinge; pallial line running close to the ventral margin ; pallial sinus 

short, steeply ascending, squarely truncate. 

Remarks.-"Forms referable to L. whitfieldi mere included by 

Whitfield under L. pinnaformis, an error perpetuated by Weller and 

others. The differences are sufficiently obvious in Whitfield's two fig- 

ures. Gabh's species ismuch higher relatively, with higher, more promi- 

nent un~bones, a broader posterior keel, and a finer concentric sculp- 

ture.'' (Gardner). 

Range in ATew Jersey- 

W0,ODBURY: 24 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, Tennessee. 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP missing. 

Nuculana stephensoni Richards new name 


Perrisunln protexta, Conrad, 1869, Amer. Jour. Conch. vol. 5, p. 98, 

pl. 9, fig. 24. 


PELECWODA 67; 

Perrisonta profezto, Whitfield, 1886, p. 110, pl. 11, figs. 14-15. 

Perrkonta protexta, Weller, 1907, p. 379, pl. 30, figs. 1, 2. 

Perrisonta protezta, Gardner, 1916, p. 522. 

De&riptwn.-"Shell small, ensiform, extremely elongated poster- 

iorly, and gradually narrowed from the beaks. Valves depressed cou- 

vex with very small inconspicuous beaks, which are curved backward, 

and with an obsolete carination extending from them backward to the 

postero-basal angle. Anterior end broadest, sharply rounded; posterior 

end narrowly rounded, longest above the middle. Hinge-line arched 

upward in front of the beaks, and gently concave posteriorly through- 

out the entire length of the shell. Basal line moderately curved, more 

prominent just in advance of the beaks. Surface of the shell polished 

or marked byvery fine concentric lines of growth, except on the pos- 

teriorcardinal slope, where they unite and form a few inconspicuous 

folds." (Whitfield.) The impression of the hinge-plate in internal 

casts shows the presence of 60 or more fine, straight teeth posterior to 

the beaks, and about 12 much larger and decidedly) -shaped teeth in 

front. 

The dimensions of a large internal cast are : length 26 mm., height 

8mm. . ~ 

Remarks.-Conrad (1869) proposed the new generic name Perrisonta 

for greatly elongated forms closely related to Leda (=ATuculana).' 

The type species was P. protezta. Gabb (1860) had already described 

another elongated form under the name Leda protezta which, 

by defihition, would fall in the genus Perrisonta. It is doubtful whether 

the characteristics mentioned by Conrad should be given generic rank. 

1 However, whether Perrisonta be recognized or not, it is apparent, as 

pointed out by Stephenson (1941, p. 79), that a hew name must be 

' found for Conrad's species. Accordingly the new name hTGculana 

stephenscmi is proposed in honor of Dr. L. W. Stephenson. 

In all localities, except Haddonfield, this species has been observed 

only in the form of internal casts, and these do not possess 

the obscure carination or umbonal ridge passing from the beak to the 

I 

~ 

postero-basal margin 


MERCHANTVILLE : 10,15 

WOODBURY: 24 

WENONAH : 35 

MT LAUREhNAVESINK : 53 

RED BANK : 59,60 

TINTON : 62 

Range outs& New Jersey.-Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi. 

Type.-Haddodeld, N. J. ANSP 18728. 



Yoldia gabbana (Whitfield) 1886 

Plate 10, Figure 12; Plate 11, Figures 7, 8 

Ledaprotezta Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 2nd ser., vol. 4, 

p. 397, pl. 68, fig. 35 (Not Leda protexta idem. p. 303, 1860 pl. 48, 

fig. 23.) . . 

Nuculana gabbana, Whitfield, 1886, p: 106, pl. 11, figs. 11-13. , , : 

Ledagabbana Weller, 1907, p. 378, pl. 29, figs. 28-30. . . 

Yoldia gabbanu Oardner, 1916, p. 520, pl. 29, figs.28-30. . . 

Description.-"shell of moderate size, extremely .elongated, the 

length being nearly twice and a half the extreme height. Valves convex, 

regularly and evenly rounded. Beaks small, appressed and-.incurved, 

snd distinctly inclined toward the narrower end of the shell, scarcely 

rising above the hinge-line on the wider part, and situated about twofifths 

of the length from the larger end. Cardinal margin on the wider 

end gently arcuate and a little more strongly concave on the narrower 

side of the beak; large extremity of the shell sharply rounded; basal 

margin gently rounded throughout and the posterior end narrow and 

rounded. As the specimen is an internal cast, it preserves no evidences of 

the surface characters. The muscular scars are extremely faint and the 

pallial line indistinguishable, although the cast is in an excellent 

state of preservation and somewhat polished on the surface fromtbe 

perfect condition. The hinge-line has beenmarked by a large number of 

very fine teeth, gradually increasing in size from the center outward.:On 

the wider end of the shell there are about 25 visible under' a glass 

and about 20 somewhat stronger ones on the narrower side of the beak. 

The ligamental pit has been of moderate size, but weU marked. and 

deep." (Whitfield.) . ... 

. , .. 

Remarks.-Rare, and not known from recent collections. 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 43 

Range outside New Jersey-Maryland, Tennessee. . . 

Type.-Freehold, N. J. (4)ANSP 18727. 

Yoldia papyria (Conrad) 1869 


Nucularia papiria Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch, vol. 5, p..4, pl. 1, 

fig. 7. . . 

Nucularia papyria Whitfield, 1886, p. 111, pl. 11, figs. 18-20. 

Yoldia papyria Weller, 1907, p. 382, pl. 30, fig. 6. 

Description.-The dimensions of a large right valve are: length, 

15.5 mm.; height, 9.5 mm.; convexity, 3 mm. Shell subelliptical in 

outline, strongly convex in the anterior half, becoming rapidly depress- 

ed posteriorly. Beak scarcely elevated above the hinge-line, situated 


PELECYPODA 69 

a little over one-fifth of the length of the shell from the anterior ex- 

tremity. Posterior portion of the hinge-line nearly straight, the hinge- 

plate bearing about 18) -shaped teeth ; the anterior hinge-line much 

shorter than the posterior, rapidly declining, forming an angle of about 

125' with the posterior portion, the hinge-plate bearing about 12


Description.-The dimensions of one of the type specimens are: 

length, 15.5 mm. ; height, 9 mm. ; convexity, 2 mm. Shell subelliptical 

in outline, the valves depressed convex, somewhat compressed in front 

and behind. Bealrs scarcely elevated above the hinge-line, situated 

about two-fifths the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. 

Both the anterior and posterior portions of the hinge-line straight 

or nearly straight, the posterior portion with 20 or more teeth, the 

anterior portion declining from the beak at an angle of about 46' with 

the posterior portion, with about 15 teeth. Anterior margin of the 

shell rounding from the anterior extremity of the hinge-line, the great- 

est extension at about the mid-height of the shell; posterior margin 

rounding from the posterior extremity of the hinge-line, the greatest 

extension above the middle ; ventral margin, between the most anterior 

and posterior points of the shell, approaching a longitudinal aemi- 

ellipse, but with the posterior portion more or less obscurely obliquely 

subtruncate. Surface of the shell smooth, as indicated by impressions 

of the exterior. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species resembles Y. longifrons, but is proportion- 

ately shorter with the basal margin more strongly curved and the 

anterior and posterior portions of the hingeline forming less nearly a 

straight line; it has not been observed to grow as large as the larger 

individuals of Y. longifrons from Lorillard. 


MAOOTHY: 5,6 

Type.-Near Matawan, N. J. NJSM 8868. 

Family Orammatodontidae 

Nernodon eufaulensb (Oabb) 1860 


Arca eufalensi% Gabh, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd ser. vol. 4, 

pl. 68, fig. 39. 

Nemodon e~ifaulensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 83, (part) pl. 12, figs. 3-4 

(not 5). 

Nemodon ezifaulensis, Weller, 1907, p. 385, pl. 30, figs. 8-11. 

Newdon emfaulcnsis, Cardner, 1916, p. 525, pl. 20, figs. 34. 

Nemodon eufaulensis, Wade, 1926, p. 42, pl. 8, figs. 17-18. 

Description.-"Shell, small, seldom reaching a length of one inch 

in the extreme. Form trapezoidal, the cardinal and basal margins sub- 

' parallel, and the length about tmiee and a half as great as the height. 

Anterior end obliquely and rapidly receding from the extremity of 

the hinge and most rapidly on the lower half; posterior encl'obliquely 

truncate, prolonged backward below to the pmbon81 angle. Valves 

moderately ventrieose, with a decidedly angular umbonal ridgb behind, 


PELECYPODA 71 

and a shallow mesial depression extending from the beaks to the basal 

border, slightly affecting the basal near the middle of its length. Beaks 

large and rather prominent, situated at about the anterior third of the 

length. Area moderate. Surface marked by numerous fine radiating 

striae showing upon the cast, which are a little coarser near the posteri- 

or angle and on the cardinal slope, possibly somewhat alternating in size 

on the anterior end, but indistinctly showing this feature on the in- 

ternal cast. Hinge-line marked by two distinct linear teeth on the 

anterior end parallel to the hinge. Those of the rest of the hinges have 

not been observed." (Whitfield). 

Remarks.-Some of the specimens referred to this species by Whit- 

field have been placed in the species N. conradi by Johnson. N. eufau- 

lellris seems to differ from N. conradi in the greater extension of the 

hinge-line anterior to the beak, in the more angular umbonal ridge, 

and in the stronger sinus extending from the beak to the ventral mar- 

gin. The species as here recognized in the New Jersey faunas is repre- 

sented by a specimen from the Navesink formation described and illu- 

strated by Whitfield. The same form occurs abundantly in the Red 

Bank sand, and rarely in the Merchantville clay-marl. The Red Bank 

examples vary considerably in size, at some localities small individuals 

10mm. to 12mm. in length being the only ones recognized, while in 

other localities they are larger, reaching a length of 20mm. more or 

less. In Whitfield's description it is stated that the posterior hinge- 

teeth have not been observed, but recently collected specimens show 

them to be two or three in number, parallel with the hinge-line and 

similar to the anterior teeth but more elongate. 

This species has been confused with a form described by Conrad 

(1869) as Nemadon eufauLensi& N. conradi is separated from N. euf- 

aulelrpis by the less elongate outline, the more nearly central umbone 

and by the presence of a fine radial sculpture over the entire external 

surface. 

The New Jersey specimens are merely casts and are questionably 

referred to N. eufaulenris. 




MT. LAUREGNAVESINK: 41, 46, 49 


TINTON: 62 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, Qeor- 

gia, Mississippi, Arkansas. 

Type.-Eufaula, Alabama ANSP 18799. 



Nemodon conrodi Johnson 1905 


Trigonarca eufaulensis Conrad 1867 Am. Jour. Conch, vol. 3, p. 9 (not of 

Oabb). 

Nemodun eufaulensis Whitfield, 1886, p. 83, pl. 12, fig. 5 (Not figs. 3-4.) 

Nemodun conradi Johnson, 1905, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila, p. 9. 

Nemodon conradi Weller, 1907, p. 387, pl. 30, fig. 7. 

Description.-Shell subrhomboidal in outline, the dimensions of a 

nearly complete right valve being: length, 16.A mm.; height, 9 mm.; 

length of hinge-line, 12 mm. The valves moderately convex, with the 

beaks somewhat incurved and situated at about the.anterior third of 

the total length of the shell, the umbo produced a little beyond the 

hinge-line. Hinge-line straight; the anterior margin making an obtuse 

angle with the binge-line, broadly rounding into the slightly convex 

ventral margin, the ventral margin curving rather sbarply posteriorly 

into the obliquely subtruncate posterior margin. Umbonal ridge rounded, 

the posterior slope rather narrow. Surface of the internal cast 

marked by concentric and radiating lines of nearly equal strength, 

giving it a cancellated appearance. Anterior and binge-teeth 

both three in number, strairht and nearlv ~arallel with the hingemargin, 

the posterior'ones being slightly"lo~ger than the ante&. 

(Weller) 

Remarks.-It somewhat resembles N. eufaulensis, hut the beaks are 

more prominent and the anterior margin is very different, the most 

anterior extension of the shell being near the hinge-li~le in N. eufaulensis, 

while in N. angulatum it is near the base. The radiating markings 

of the shell may be distinguished upon the casts of N. eufaulellsis, 

which is not the case with this species. 



Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ; ANSP 18798. 

Nemodon ongulotum (Oabb) 1860 


Leda angulata, Gabb, 1860, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. (1860), p. 95, 

pl. 2, fig. 12. 

Nemodon angulatum, Whitfield, 1886, p. 84, pl. 12, figs. 6-7. 

Nemodon angulatum, Weller, 1907, p. 388, pl. 30, fig. 15. 

Description.--Shell small, the dimensions of the type specimen 

being: length, 15.7 mm.; height, 8 mm.; thickness, 5 mm. Beaks 

rather prominent, situated at about the anterior third of the shell. An- 

terior margin broadly curved from beneath the beak to the antero- 


PELECYPODA 73 

basal region, where it curves more abruptly into the nearly straight 

ventral margin, postero-basal margin produced and subangular, poster- 

ior margin trunqte,, meeting the, posterior extremity of the hinge-line 

in an obtuse angle, dorsal margin nearly straight, sloping gently back- 

ward from the beak to the posterior hinge extremity. From the beak a 

subangular umbonal ridge passes obliquely backward to the postero- 

basal angle, and a broadly-flattened or slightly sinuete area passes 

downward from the beak to about the middle of the ventral margin. 

The surface markings and hinge characters not preserved on the type 

specimen, which is an internal cast. (Weller) 

~emarks.-~nown only from the type specimen. Somewhat resem- 

bles N. eufaulem's, but the beaks are more prominent, and the anterior 

margin is very different, the most anterior extension of the shell being 

near the hinge-line in N. eufaulcnsis, while in N. angulatum it is near 

the base. The radiating markings of the shell can usually be distin- 

guished upon the casts of N. eufaulensis which is not the case with this 

species. 


NAVESIh'K: 57 

Type.-Bnrlington County, N. J. ANSP 18723. 

Nemodon brevifrons Conrad 1875 (l) 

Plate 11, Figures ll,l2 

h'emodan breavifrom Conrad, 1875, Kerr's Oeol. N. Car., App. A,, p. 4, 

pl. 1, fig. 15. 

Nemodon brevifrons, Whitfield, 1886, p. 85, pl. 12, figs. 1-2. 

Nemodon brevifrons, Weller, 1907, p. 389, pl. 30, figs. 12-14. 

Nemdon brevifrons, Stephenson, 1923, p. 91, pl. 14, figs. 1-4. 

Description.-Shell of moderate size, the dimensions of a very per- 

fect right valve being: length, 23 mm. ; height, 13 mm. ; length of hinge- 

line, 15 mm.; convexity, 6 mm. Shell subrhomboidal in outline, rather 

strongly convex. Beaks incurved, the umho rather broad and promi- 

nent, and produced above the hinge-line. Hinge-line straight. Anterior 

margin meeting the hinge-line in an obtuse angle, broadly and evenly 

rounded, passing with a regular curvature into the gently convex ven- 

tral margin, postero-ventral margin rather broadly rounded and pass- 

ing into the obliquely subtruncate posterior margin above, which meets 

the hinge-line in an obtuse angle. The umbonal ridge prominent, broadly 

rounded or somewhat inflated, the posterior slope being narrow and 

somewhat abrupt. Surface of the shell marked by concentric lines of 

growth, and in some specimens by faint radiating lines, which are more 

conspicuous upon the anterior portion of the shell. The anterior hinge- 

teeth are three in number, rather short and slightly curved, hut nearly 

parallel with the hinge-line, the posterior teeth are also three in number, 



perhaps a little longer than the anterior ones, straight and subparallel 

with the hinge-line. (Weller) 

Remarks.-\Vhitfieldls figured specimens from Haddonfield in the 

Woodbury formation probably actually came from Snow Rill, North 

Carolina, the type locality of the species (Johnson, 1905, p. 9). In 

specimens obtained from the Cliffwood clay the radiating markings of 

the shell. as shown in an impression of the exterior, are apparently 

obsolete, the markings being essentially as shown in Conrad's original 

illustrations of the species. One of the specimens from the Wenonah 

sand, on the other hand, with no essential differences in the contour 

of the shell, exhibits some faint radiating markings, which are more 

strongly developed on the anterior portion of the shell, agreeing essen- 

tially with Whitfield's description. 

Stephenson (1923, p. 92) questions the correctness of Weller's 

reference of the New Jersey specimens to N. brevifrons; he points out 

that they are all casts and with the possible exception of Figure 13, 

appear to lack the obliquity that characterizes the North Carolina speci- 

mens; also the beaks appear to be a little farther from the anterior end. 

Range in h7ew Jersey- 

MAGOTHY: 5 

WENONAH 34,35 

Range outside of New Jersey: North Carolina, Alabama. 

Type.-Snow IIill, N. C. ANSP 2301. 

Nemodon obesus Stephenson 1954 


h'emodonobeslis Stephenson, 1954, TJ. S. Qeol. Surv. Prof. Paper 264-B, 

p. 29, pl. 6, figs. 10-15. 

"Shell large for the genus, elongated, plump, higher and plumper at 

the rear than at the front, inequilateral, equivalve. Beaks prominent, 

incurved, prosogyrate, situated about 0.35 the length of the shell from 

the anterior end. Umbonal region broad. The umhonal ridge forms a 

broadly rounded sinuous swell extending from the beak to the lower 

posterior extremity. A broadly rounded rather conspicuous depression 

extends from the beak obliquely downward and rearward to the ventral 

margin, centering about midway of the length. Dorsal margin straight, 

about 0.7 the length of the shell; anterior margin evenly rounded; 

ventral margin straight or very broadly concave centrally, curving up 

sharply at each end; posterior margin rather sharply rounded at end 

of umbonal ridge, very broadly rounded and inclined forward above. 

The internal molds have impressed upon them from the external molds, 

weak, irregular concentric growth lines and narrow ridges, and weak 

radiating ribs; the latter are strongest and coarsest on the postero- 


I 

PELECYPODA .75 

dorsal slope; on some specimens and parts of specimens radiating ribs 

are obscure or wanting. 

Dimensions of the largest cotype, which is slightly mechanically 

compressed: Length, 38 mm.; height, 20.5 mm.; convexity about 7.5 

mm. A nearly complete internal mold measures: Length, 29.5 mm.; 

height about 16 mm.; thickness, 12.5 mm. 

Incomplete impressions of the cardinal area and hinge are pre~erved 

on several of the internal molds, and these indicate the presence of 

chevron-shaped ligamental grooves and 1, 2, or 3 teeth elongated 

parallel to the hinge line on each end of the hinge. Impressions of the 

adductor scars are scarcely discernible on the internal molds; evidently 

the scars were not deeply inset in the shell. 

Among described species of Nemodon this species appears to be 

nearest to N. brevifrons Conrad, from the Snow Hill marl member 

of the Black Creek formation (upper Campanian), Snow Hill, N. C. 

Conrad's species has a shorter hinge, is less strongly inflated along the 

umbonal ridge, is more extended in the posteroventral direction, and 

has a somewhat weaker development of radiating ribs." (Stephenson) 


RARITAN: lb 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. USNM 108620,108621 (cotypes). 

Family Cucullaeidae 

Cucullaea vulgaris Morton 

Plate 12, Figures 6, 7 ; Plate 13, Figures 3, 5 

Cucullaea vulgaris Morton, 1830, Amer. Jour. Sci. 1st ser. vol. 17, p. 285, 

pl. 3, fig. 21. 

Idonearca vulgaris, Whitfield, 1886, p. 98, pl. 13, figs. 1-5. 

Zdonearca tippana, Whitfield, 1886, p. 95, pl. 12, figs. 19-21. 

(Not Cucullaea tippanu, Conrad, 1858.) 

ldonearca medians, Whitfield, 1886, p. 199, pl. 26, figs. 5, 6. 

Cucullaea tippana, Weller, 1907, p. 394, pl. 31, figs, 5-10. 

(Not Cucullaea tippana, Conrad, 1858.) 

Cucullaea vdgaris, Weller, 1907, p. 397, pl. 32, figs. 5, 6. 

Cucullaea vulgaris, Qardner, 1916, p. 529, pl. 20, figs. 8, 9; pl. 21, 

figs. 1,2. 

Cumllaea vulgaris, Wade, 1926, p. 43, pl. 9, figs. 3,4, 6, 7. 

Description.-Internal casts subtriangular in outline, subcuneate 

behind; the dimensions of a large, nearly perfect specimen, are : length, 

40mm.; height, 32 mm. ;thickness, 32 mm. Shell very oblique, the beaks 

of the internal cast large, widely separated and greatly elevated above 

the hinge-line. Anterior margin curving backward and downward from 

the anterior extremity of the hinge-line into the gently convex basal 



margin; postero-basal extremity prominent, sharply rounded or subangular; 

posterior margin obliquely truncate. Valves with a strong, 

angular umbonal ridge, becoming especially prominent towards the postero-basal 

extremity; the postero-dorsal slope abrupt, indented by the 

deep and strong, crescentifom cavity left by the posterior muscular 

ridge. Auteriormuscu1~r impression of moderate strength. Pallial line 

usually strongly defined, especially posteriorly, represented in the casts 

by an elevated ridge crossed by sharply defined elevated ridges which 

are short and close anteriorly, becoming longer, stronger and more 

distant posteriorly, especially where the pallid line crosses the umhonal 

ridge. (Weller) 

Remarks.-The original examples of this species are sixteen indi- 

viduals in the Academy of National Sciences labelled "New Jersey; 

Crosswicks 9" One of these was undoubtedly Morton's figured speci- 

men but it is impossible to identify it. The specimens'are internal 

molds and are therefore difficult to compare with perfect specimens 

from southern localities. Specimens similar to the type lot of C. vul- 

garis are common in the Navesink and Hornerstown formations. 

The specimens from the Marshalltown, Navesink and Tinton forma- 

tions referred to C. tippana Conrad'by Weller are probably also this 

species. The true C. tippana is not known fromNew Jersey and is 

probably a young stage of C. capax Conrad (Stephenson, 1941, p. 89). 

There seems to be some confusion about the generic names Cucullaea 

and Idonearca, the latter formerly being regarded as a subgenus. The 

present author prefers to use the broader term Cuczlllaea. 

Pilsbry (1929) pointed out that the generic name Cyphozis pro- 

posed by Rafinisque in 1819 was probably based on some casts of 

Idonearca (probably I. vulgaris) probably from the Cretaceous marls 

of New Jersey. But since no locality was given by Rafinisque and since 

there is a doubt that Rafinisque's specimens were actually C. vulgaris, 

the present author agrees with Stephenson (1941, pp. 89-90) that the 

name Cyphozis should not be used for the New Jersey specimens. 


MARSHALLTOWN: ("C. tippana") 27,28,31 

MT LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37,57 

RlOD BANK: ("C. tippaia") Shrewsbury River. 

TINTON: ("C. tippana") 62 

HORNERSTOWN: New Egypt, Sewell, Birmingham 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware; other records not verified 

because of confusion with C. tippana, etc. 

Type.-Label says "New Jersey, Crosswicks 9" probably equals 

Crosswicks Creek.;. ANSP 19568. 

. . 


PELECYPODA 

Cucullaea antrosa Morton 1834 

Plate 11, Figures 13, 14; Plate 12, Figure 1 

Cucullaea antrosa Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U. S. p. 65, 

pl. 13, fig. 6. 

Idonearea antrosa, Whitefield, 1886, p. 96, pl. 13, figs. 6-11. 

Cucullaea antrosa, TVeller, 1907, p. 391, PI. 32, figs. 7-9. 

Cucullaea antrosa, Oardner, 1916, p. 534. 

Cucullaea antrosa, Stephenson, 1923,' p. 87, pl. 12, figs. 5-6. 

Descriptwn.-"Shell subcircular in outline, or very slightly ovate 

from being a little prolonged at the postero-basal angle, very slightly 

oblique with a straight hinge-line, which is about half as long as the 

greatest length of the shell. Beaks large, erect, and slightly inciirved, 

but not projectingbeyond the edge of the proportionally small ligamental 

area ~vhich is marked by oblique grooves, as in all species of the 

group. Surface of the shell slightly angulated along the postero-umbonal 

slope and very convex; marked by numerous strong concentric 

lines of growth at irregular distances; no radiating strire. IIinge-plate 

narrow in small and medium sized specimens and the teeth small, but 

barely bent down at their inner extremity and few in number ; the denticulations 

along the middle of the hinge vertical and small. On large 

individuals the outer teeth are strong, from four to five in number on 

each side, according to the size of the individual; slightly declining 

outwardly, and the bent portion usually nearly half as long as the horizontal 

portion, the bending being at an angle within ninety degrees, the 

denticles on the middle part of the hinge being small and numerous. 

Muscular scars, as seen on the casts, strongly marked; the impression 

of the ridge deep, strongly arched, and situated pretty well up on the 

posterior slope; surface of the cast marked by rather strong vascular 

lines. The outer margin of the cast is bordered by a strong keel, indicating 

the great thickening of the valves along the pallial line, which 

extends around three sides, being broadest on the anterior." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of a large left valve are: length, 75 mm. ; height, 

' 

70 mm. ; convexity, 26 mm. 

Remarks.-Morton's type is a distorted internal mold from an un- 

. known,locality in New Jersey. For this reason it is difficult to compare 

. . - i'tiwith perfect specimens from other localities. It can, however, usually 

bc.distinguished from G. vulgaris by its more rounded form. This 

species.or closely related species, is found along the Atlantic and Gulf 

Coastal Plain from Maryland to Texas; hut in view of the poor condition 

of the type ,it seems best to restrict the name C. antrosa to New 

Jersey specimens. 


I MERCHANTVILLE : 7,8,9,15 



NAVESINK: 37,43,46,47,49,50 

TINTON : Freehold. 

Range outside of New Jersey: 1 

Type.-New Jersey: ANSP 2272. 

Cucullaea woodburyensis Weller 1907 


Cuculloea woodbuqyensis Weller, 1907, p. 393, pl. 34, fig. 1. 

Description.-Shell large, the dimensions of the type specimen, the 

internal cast of a left valve, being: length, 75 mm. ; height, 69 mm. ; 

convexity, 28 mm. ; length of hinge-line, 53 mm. Anterior margin reg- 

ularly rounding from the anterior extremity of the hinge-line to the 

middle of the ventral margin, ventral margin less curved in its pos- 

terior half, the postero-ventral margin obtuwly rounding into the sub- 

truncate posterior margin which is nearly vertical below and curves 

gently forvard to the posterior extremity of the binge-line above. 

Beaks of moderate size, those of the two valves approaching somewhat 

closely. Valves ventricose, without a sharp umbonal ridge, extending 

to the postero-ventral extremity. Indentation of the posterior mus- 

cular ridge rather narrow and of moderate etrength. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species resembles C. antrosa, but is somewhat 

shorter and more nearly erect in aspect. It has, apparently, a thinner 

shell, so that the internal cast is not marked by the distinct marginal 

keel which is so characteristic of C. antrosa. 


WOODBURY: 18 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J.; NJSM 9526. 

Cucullaea neglecla Gabb 1861 


Cucullaea neglecta Qabh, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 326. 

Cucullaea neglecta Weller, 1907, p. 396, pl. 31, figs. 1-4. 

Description.-Shell oblique, subrhomboidal in outline, the dimensions 

of a nearly perfect internal cast being: length, 39 mm.; height, 

28.5 mm.; thickness, 22 mm.. Beaks of the int,ernal cast of moderate 

size, moderately elevated above the hinge-line, and somewhat npproximate 

for men~bers of this genus. Anterior margin rounding regularly 

from the anterior extremity of the hinge-line into the gently convex 

basal margin; postero-basal extremity sharply rounded or subangular; 

posterior margin obliquely truncate ; the free margins somewhat keeled. 

Valves with a narrowly rounded or subangular umbonal ridge, with the 

postero-dorsal slope rather steep, indented by the impression of the 


PELECYPODA 79 

posterior muscular ridge; anterior muscular impression of only moder- 

ate strength; pallial line not sharply defined. (Weller) 

Remrks.-Known only from internal casts. 


MERCHANTVTLLE : 15 

WOODBURY: 20 

NAVESINK: 37,41,42,48,53 

Range outside New Jersey: 9 

Type.-Crosswicks, N. J. ANSP 18765. 

Cucullaea linlei (Qabb) 1876 


Zdonearca littlei Qabb, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pbil., p. 316. 

CucuUaeo littlei Weller, 1907, p. 400, pl. 33, figs. 1-2. 

CucuUaea liltlei Wade, 1926, p. 45, pl. 9, fig. 5. 

Description.-Shell very large, the dimensions of a large internal 

cast being: length, 115 mm. ; height, 89 mm.; thickness, 100 mm. An- 

terior margin regularly rounding from the anterior extremity of the 

hinge-line into the convex ventral margin ; postero-basal margin rather 

bluntly rounded; posterior margin obliquely subtruncate, slightly con- 

vex; hinge-line arcuate. Beaks large and prominent, widely separated 

and much elevated above the hinge-line in the cast. Valves strongly 

ventricose, the nmbonal ridge broadly rounded, the postero-dorsal slope 

abrupt, the posterior surfaces of the two valvea meeting at the poster- 

ior margin in nearly a plane. Indentation of the posterior muscular 

ridge strong and very deep, 12 mm. in the type specimen. Hinge char- 

acters not observed. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This is the largest species of the genus and is repre- 

sented from New Jersey only by a single specimen from Tinton Falls. 


TINTON: 63 

Range wtsi& New. Jersey': Maryland ?, Georgia, Alabama, Ted- 

nessee. 

Type.-Pataula Creek, Georgia; ANSP 18764. 

Cucullaea comprersirostra (Wbitfield) 1886 


Zdonearca compressirostra Whitfield, 1886, p. 199, pl. 26, figs. 15-16. 

Cucullaea mpressirostra, Weller, 1907, p. 399; pl. 32, figs. 3, 4. 

This species is recorded only from the Hornkrstown formation but 

is figured because it is frequently associated with C. vulgaris. 

. . 



ldonearca blanpiedi Stephenson ? 


Zdonearca blanpiedi Stephenson, 1953, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

242, p. 63, pl. 11, figs. 1-4 (1952-1953). 

Idoneorca blanpiedi, Stephenson 1,1954,U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

264-B p. 28, pl. 6, fig. 9. 

One incomplete internal mold from a clay pit of the Sayre and 

Fisher Brick Co. (USOS 19013) possesses a form strongly suggestive 

of Idonearca blanpiedi Stephenson from the Woodbine formation of 

Texas. The mold indicates an inflated right valve possessing a promi- 

nent suhangnlar umbonal ridge, elongated in the postero-ventral dir- 

ection, and a long, steep postero-dorsal slope. No radial ribbing is 

apparent and the shell was probably smooth. The mold as preserved 

measures: Length, 41+ mm. ; height about 30 mm. ; convexity 7+ mm. 

(Stephenson) 


RARITAN : la 

Range outside New Jersey: Texas. 

Type.-Woodbine formation of Texas; UShW 105146. 

Family Areidae senw lata 

Trigonarca clifhoodensls Weller 1907 


Trigonarca cliffwoodensis WeUer, 1907, p. 401, pl. 30, fig. 17. 

Trigonarca sp. Stephenson, 1923, p. 103. 

Description.-Shell subtrapezoidal in outline, the dimensions of a 

large individual being: length, 31 mm. ; height, 23 mm. ; convexity of 

one valve, 7 mm. Anterior margin broadly rounded, the most anterior 

point at about the mid-height of the shell, passing below with regular 

curvature into the basal margin ; basal margin convex throughout, but 

becoming straighter posteriorly; postero-basal margin broadly round- 

ed ; posterior margin subtruncate above. Valves moderately convex, the 

beaks at about the middle of the hinge-line and but slightly elevated 

above it; the umbonal ridge rounded, the post-umbonal slope gentle. 

Indentation of both an anterior and a posterior muscular ridge present 

in the casts, both of them slight but the posterior one somewhat the 

stronger. The larger casts marked by more or less indistinct radiating 

costte above the pallial impression. Hinge teeth short, arranged in an 

arcuate line, diverging from either side of the beak, 20 or more in num- 

ber. Surface of the valves as:indicated by impressions of the exterior 

marked only by more or less indistinct lines of growth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This seems to be a ver? distinct species of Trig&rco 


PELECYPODA 81 

which is characterized by the slight elevation of the beaks above the 

hinge-line, and in the shell itself must have had very low cardinal areas. 

All the New Jersey specimens observedare in the form of internal casts. 

Stephenson (1953) has suggested that this species more properly 

belongs in the genus Brevicrrca. 


MAGOTHY: 5 

Type.-Cliffwood, N. J. NJSM 7789. 

Trigonarca triquetra Conrad 1875 


Tn'golurrca triquetra, Conrad in Kerr, 1875, Rep. Geol. Surv. N. Car., 

App. A, p. 2, pl. 1, fig. 7. 

'~;igonar~a triquetra, Weller, 1907, p. 402, pl. 30, fig. 16. 

.,.Frigonarca triquetra, Stephenson, 1923, p. 98, pl. 17, figs. 3-7. 

Description,-Shell subtriangular in outline, the dimensions of a 

right valve being: length, 41 mm.; height, 32 mm.; convexity of one 

,.walve,.8.5 mm. Hinge-line strongly arcuate; anterior margin broadly 

: rourided, passing regularly into the gently convex basal margin; 

postero-basal margin rather sharply rounded; posterior margin obliquely 

truncate. The valves moderately convex, the beaks situated 

; neali;the middle of the .hinge-line and but slightly elevated above it; 

umbonal ridge rounded, the postumbonal slope gentle below, becoming 

more abrupt towards the beak. Indentations of both anterior and 

posterior muscular ridges present in the casts, the anterior indenta- 

.. ... ti~p, very slight, posterior. one much stronger, its lower end below the 

mid-height of the shell. Pallial impression distinct, above which the 

surface of the cast is marked by distinct radiating grooves and caste. 

Hinge strongly arcuate, teeth short, diverging from either side of the 

beak, thirty or more in number. Surface.of the valves, as indicated by 

impressions of the exterior, marked by fine, crowded concentric lines of 

growth, and by indistinct, rather broad and flat radiating costa: upon 

the central portion of the shell. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Found assodated with T. cliffwoodensis Weller but distinguished 

from it by its larger size, more nearly subtriangular out- 

Line, and especially by its more strongly arcuate hinge, .the hinge 

plate hearing the teeth extending far down along. the posterior margin, 

and a160 down the anterior margin hut apparently not so far as , 

on the posterior., This strongly arcuate hinge is apparently the most 

oharaeteristic feature of the shell. 


MAGOTHY: 5 

Range outside New ~ erse~: North Carolina. 

dl 



T,ype.-Snow Hill, N. C., lost ; paratypes USNM ,31910, 31911 ; 

WSP 19572. . . 

:. . 

Trigonarca cuneifonnis Conrad 1869 


. . 

: ",. 

Trigonerca cuneiformis Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch, vol. 5, p. 98, 

pl. 9, fig. 1. 

Trigonarca cuneiformis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 88, pl. 12, figs. 17-18. 

Trigwurrca cz~neiformis, Weller, 1907, p: 403, pl. 30, figs. 18-20. 

Description.-"Shell quite small, not exceeding half an inch in 

extreme length in any of the examples yet observed. Trapezoidel in 

outline and quite ventricose. Hinge but little more than one-half the 

length of the shell, and the nrea very narrow. Beaks small, slightly 

incurved. Anterior end of the shell regularly rounded; posterior end 

elongate, produced below, the posterior margin very oblique, so as to 

make the postero-basal angle quite acute. Hinge-plate very narrow, 

marked by oblique transverse teeth, the anterior end having 10 or 12 

directed inward below, and the posterior a somewhat larger number 

pointed,in the opposite direction. Muscular impression large, the pos- 

terior one bordered by a slightly elevated lamella on the anterior mar- 

gin. Surface of the shell marked by radiating lines, strongest on the 

anterior end and faintest on the middle of the valve; also.by concentric 

lines which cross them and form slight pustules at the junctions." 

(Whitfield.) .. . . , ... . 

The dimensions of an internal cast are: length, 6 mm.; height, 3.5 

mm. 

.: .... . ,. . 

Remarks.-Rare and known only from Haddonfield and Matawan. 

Whitfield had suggested that the Haddonfield specimens might be the 

young of another species, but the occurence of the species'at Matawan 

with the the same dimensions together with the lack of larger indi- 

viduals, would seem to indicate that the specimens were' adult. 

L- Range im New Jersey- 

WOQDBURY: 19,24 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ; ANSP 18718 

Breviarca haddonfieldensir Stephenson 1935 


~rev&r~ safo~di whitfield, 1886, p. 87, pl. 12, figs. 11-12. Not of Oabb, 

1860. 

Brevia~ca saffordi, Weller, 1907, p. 404, pl. 30, figs. 21-24; . . . .'. 

Breviarca haddonfieldensis Stephenson, 1935, Jour. Wash. A&d. Sci. 

v( . 25, p. 362. .. . 

. . 


PELECYPODA 

Description.-"Shell rather small, ovately trapezodial in outline, 

with strongly ventricose valves and large, tumid, subcentral beaks, 

which stand prominently above the hinge line, are incurved and ap- 

proximate. Hinge line about two-thirds as long as the entire length of 

the valves, with a moderately high, vertically striated area, the striated 

portion being bounded by a plain border over which the striations do 

not extend. Anterior end sharply rounded and the basal line round 

and full. Posterior extremity oblique, extended somewhat below and 

rounding into the basal line. Posterior umbonal ridge rounded but 

quite distinct. Surface covered entirely with fine, slightly raised 

thread-like stria?, which are somewhat alternating in size on the postero- 

cardinal slope. Hinge plate moderately wide and distinctly arched on 

the inner margin, the line of teeth more distinctly arcuate. Teeth 

numerous, narrow, and diverging outward from beneath the beak, and 

gradually increasing in length to near the outer ones. Muscular im- 

pressions proportionally large and distinct, the posterior one having a 

slightly raised line on its anterior margin, but only seen in the larger 

specimens." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Stephenson calls attention to the fact that most of the 

New Jersey specimens referred to B. saffordi by Whitfield are actually 

distinct and he therefore proposed the new name B. haddonfie1den.si.s. 

One right valve referred to B. saffordi by Whitfield is actually B. um- 

bonata according to. Stephenson. 


WOODBURY: 18,19,23,24 



Breviarca umbonata (Conrad) 1875 

Plate 13, Figures l2,13 

Trigonarca (Breviarca) umbonata Conrad, 1875, in Kerr's Rept. Cfeol. 

N.C.Vol.l,p.3,pl.1,fig.8. 

Breviarca saffordi, Whitfield, 1886, p. 87 (part). Not pl. 12, figs. 11-12 

(= B. haddonfieldensis Stephenson) Not B. saffordi Oabb. 

Xtriarca umbonata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 11, pl. 20, figs. 14-20. 

Breviarca umbonata, Stephenson, 1935, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci. Vol. 25, 

p. 363. 

Description.-"Shell subtrigonal, relatively short, strongly convex. 

Beaks protruding prominently above the hinge line, distant, incurved, 

directed neither forward nor backward and situated centrally with 

respect to the area and a little in advance of the middle of the shell. 

Umbonal ridge prominent, angular; umhonal slope nearly at right 

angles to the plane separating the valves. 



Hinge plate relatively broad, arched on lower margin and t.run- 

cated above by the straight loner margin of the area. The teeth are 

numerous and crowded ; 8 or 10 of the centrally located teeth are short 

and transverse; away from the central teeth on the broader parts of 

the plate the teeth become longer and successively more oblique, those 

at the extremities being nearly horizontal. 

Cardinal area amphidetic and rather broad; ligament amphidetic 

but not attached over the entire cardinal area as shown by the much 

smaller lozenge-shaped surface minutely striated at right angles to 

the hinge line; in other words, a smooth margin exists between thc 

striated portion and the outer margin of the area. 

The interior of the shell is marked by faint radiating lines; the 

posterior adductor scar is bounded on the lower or inner margin by 

a thin, low carina that extends apically away from the scar, and though 

becoming fainter, is traceable nearly to the beak. A similar but much 

fainter carina appears on the lower inner margin of the anterior ad- 

dnctor scar. 

Anterior margin broadly and regularly rounded; ventral margin 

slightly convex, becoming nearly straight posteriorly; posterior margin 

sharply rounded to subangular below at the extremity, becoming nearly 

straight and inclined forward above, meeting the hinge line at an angle 

of 125 to 130 degrees. 

Surface marked by fine concentric lines of growth and by a fen 

coarse growth undulations." (Stephenson). ' 

Remarks.-According to Stephenson (1923, p. 163) one right valve 

referred to B. saffordi by Whitfield is probably B. umbonata. The other 

specimens referred to B. saffordi by Whitfield are assignecl to B. had- 

donfieldensis by Stephenson (see page 82). 


WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. probably lost; paratypes USNRl 31918; 

AhTSP 2275. 

Breviarca cunmta (Gabb) 1876 


Trigonarca cuneata Gahb, 1876, Proc. Acad, Nat. Sci. Phil., 1876, p. 316. 

Breviarca cuneata, Weller, 1907, p. 406, pl. 30, fig. 17. 

Description.-Shell oblique, subtriangular in outline, the dimen- 

sions of a nearly complete internal cast of a left valve being: length 20 

mm., height 18.5 mm., convexity 7.5 mm. Anterior margin rounding 

from the anterior extremity of the hinge-line into the basal margin, 

which is gently convex in the central portion, curving upward more 

abruptly in front and behind; postero-basal extremity rather sharply 

rounded; posterior margin obliquely truncate. Valves strongly convex 


PELECYPODA 

or somewhat ventricose ; tlie beaks, in the casts, rather large and some- 

what incurved, elevated above the hinge-line, situated in front of the 

middle of the shell at about the middle of the hinge-line; umbonal ridge 

rather sharply rounded, the postero-dorsal slope abrupt; in front of 

the umbonal ridge the surface is nearly flat or gently convex for 

some distance, and then curves rather abruptly to the anterior margin. 

Hinge-plate with about 12 or 15 teeth on either side of the beak. 

Surface marked by rather strong concentric lines of growth and by 

fainter radiating striae. (Weller) 

Rcn~arks.-Occurs usually in the form of internal casts; can be 

distinguished from B. umbonata and B. haddonfieldemis with which 

it is associated, by its larger size and more conspicuous markings on 

the shell shown in impressions of the exterior. 

llange in New Jersey - 



Range antside New Jersey: Georgia. 

Type.-Pataula Creek, Georgia ANSP 18800. 

' Arca uniopsis Conrad 1853 


Arcaunwpsis Conrad, 1853, Aead. Nat. Sei. Phil., 2nd ser. vol. 2, p. 275, 

pl. 24, fig. 17. 

Cibota uniopsis Whitfield, 1886, p. 92, pl. 11, figs. 32-33. 

Arca z~niopsis Weller, 1907, p. 407, pl. 34, figs. 6-8. 

Description.-"Shell rather above a medium size, transversely 

elongate, and trapezoidal or subrhhomboidal in outline, with moder- 

ately convex valves, which. are broadly suleated in the middle, parti- 

cularly on the right valve, and only moderately elevated beaks, situated 

at about the anterior third of the length, and which in the casts appear 

to have been scarcely enrolled and moderately distant from each other. 

Hinge-line not quite as long as the body of the shell, in the cast showing 

characters of a rather low area; anterior end obliquely rounded, reeeding 

below; basal line broadly sinuate and the posterior end obliquely 

truncate, longest bclow tlie center." (Whitfield). 

The surface marked by radiating costae which are not present upon 

the internal cnsts. BIuscular scars faintly impressed. 

The tli~ucnsions of an internal cast illustrated by Whitfield are: 

length 50 mm., height 24 mm., thickness 17 mm. 

Re~r~orBs.-Rese~nbles A. rostellata and like that species is rare and 

usually occurs as internal casts. This species may be distinguished by 

its proportionately greater height, the more central position of the beaks, 

and the more conspicuous sinus, especially in the right valve, extending 


J 

,


from the beaks obliquely to the ventral margin. Radiating costae are 

rarely visible on the easts, while in A. rostellata the impressions of the 

plieations are clearly seen. 

Range in New Jersey - 


MT. LAUREGNAVESINE: 37, 45, 47, 57 

Type.-Burlington Co., N. J. ANSP 16876. 

Arca rostellata Morton 1834 


Arca rostellata Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Or. U.S., p. 64, 

pl, 3, fig. 11. 

Cibota rostellata Whitfield, 1886, p. 91, pl. 11, figs. 34-36. 

Arca rostellata Weller, 1907, p. 408, pl. 34, figs. 4-5. 

Description.-"Shell trapezoidal and very oblique, the length being 

about twice and a half the height, with subparallel cardinal and basal 

margins, posterior end very obliquely prolonged below, and the anterior 

end rather rapidly rounding backward from near the hinge-line to its 

junction with the base. Basal margin very perceptibly sinuate nearly 

opposite the beaks and apparently very slightly gaping. Valves moder- 

ately inflated, most ventrieose on the umbones just anterior to the 

sulcus, which crosses them from the beak to the sinus of the base, and 

then rapidly declining to the anterior extremity, but sloping quite 

gradually on the posterior side. Beaks moderately large, somewhat 

projecting above the hinge and slightly incurved; situated at about 

the anterior third of the entire length of the valves. Cardinal area 

moderate in size and extending about two-thirds of the length. Teeth 

unknown. Surface as indicated on internal easts marked by radiating 

ribs, pretty fine and numerous on the anterior end and in the mesial 

sulcus, becoming much coarser posteriorly, and shoning a slight tend- 

ency to alternation in size between the sulcus and posterior umbonal 

angle, and on the cardinal slope a tendency to bifurcation in some 

eases." (Whitfield). 

The dimensions of a perfect internal cast are: length, 38 mm.; 

height, 18.5 mm. ; thickness, 13 mm. 

Remarks.-Rare, the only recent record is a specimen collected at 

Cream Ridge by Halsey W. Miller, Jr. The New Jersey specimens 

have the general outline of Morton's type from Alabama, but are not 

so conspicuously marked by radiating costae and do not have as broad 

abyssal gap in their ventral margin. 

Raqbge in New Jersey - 

MT. LAUREGNAVESINK: 41,45 

Range outside New Jersey: Alabama. 

Type.-Alabama; ANSP 19596. 


PELECYPODA 87 

Arca obesca (Whitfield) 1886 


Cibota obesa Whitfield, 1886, p. 93, pl. 11, figs. 30-31. 

Arca obesa Weller, 1907, p. 409, pl. 34, fig. 9. 

Arca obesa Cfardner, 1916, p. 536. 

Description.-"Shell small, with full and very ventricose valves, 

large tumid beaks situated opposite the anterior third of the length, 

slightly enrolled, and distant from each other as shown on the internal 

cast. Form of the outline trapezoidal, the length of the cast nearly twice 

the height, exclusive of the projection of the beaks; anterior end verti- 

cally rounded; posterior obliquely truncate; extremity obtusely point- 

ed; basal line full, but constricted just anterior to the middle by the 

very marked but short and broad byssal opening; area two-thirds the 

length of the valve and moderately wide. On the casts the muscular 

imprints are very distinctly marked and of fair size, no muscular ridge ; 

the outer margin indicating a strong and abrupt thickening of the 

valves with a crenulated border; radiating lines indicating moderately 

fine striae show on nearly all parts of the cast, but strongest on the 

postero-basal section." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of Whitfield's type of this species are: length, 

25.5 mm. ; height, 15.5 mm. ; thickness, 13.5 mm. 

Remarks.-Occasionally found in the Merchantville formation, 

but usually poorly preserved. The three species A. rostellata, A. uniop- 

sis and A. obesa (referred to the genus Cibota by Whitfield), are very 

similar and because of their poor preservation may represent varieties 

of a single species. 


MERCHAhTTVILLE : 14,15,16 

Range outsse New Jersqy.-Maryland. 

Type.-Burlington Co., N. J. ANSP 19518. 

Nemoarca cretacea Conrad 1869 


Nemoa~ca cretacea Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch, vol. 5, p. 97, pl. 9, 

fig. 21. 

Nemoarca cretacea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 86, pl. 12, figs. 8-10. 

Nemoarca cretacea, Weller, 1907, p. 413, pl. 30, figs. 25-26. 

Description.-"Shell small, seldom attaining more than half an inch 

in extreme length, trapezoidal in form, the transverse diameter being 

nearly once and a half the height. Valves very ventricose, with large, 

strongly inflated, prominent beaks, situated nearly opposite the middle 

of the length. Hinge-line straight and low; area narrow, the length 



a little less than the greatest length of the body of the shell. Hinge- 

plate narrow, marked by about 12 short, oblique teeth which diverge 

from the center on each side, and two or three transverse teeth nearly 

parallel to the hinge-line at the posterior end. lfuscular imprints too 

'faint to be observed on well-preserved casts of the interior. No internal 

rib bordering the posterior scar. Surface marked by from four to 

six fine radiating ribs on the posterior slope, and 24 to 26 on the body 

of the shell and anterior end. Strongest on the posterior part of the 

body of the shell and gradually decreasing in size anteriorly. On some 

individuals one or more of thc ribs on the posterior slope appear to be 

divided, while all are strongly elevated and rather sharp with narrow 

interspaces. On the matrix there are remains of distinct elevated con- 

centric lines at regular distances crossing the radiating ribs." (X'hit- 

field.) 

The dimensions of a large internal cast of a right valve are: length, 

11.5 mm. ; height, 9.5 mm. ; length of hinge-line, 8.5 mm. ; convexity, 

4.5 mm. 

Remarks.-This species generally occurs in the form of internal 

casts, in which condition the umbo appears to be more prominent than 

when the shell itself is preserved. The impressions of the exterior show 

that the surface of the shell was covered with strong, close, concentric 

lines in addition to the radiating markings, and in one of the largest in- 

dividuals observed the number of radiating costae is seen to be about 40. 


MERCHANTVXILLE : - 9- 



EOCENE : 


Barbatia ? cuniculana Stephenson 1954 


Barbatia 9 cunici-ltlana Stephenson, 1954, U.S.G.S. Prof. Paper 264-B 

p. 27, pl. 6, figs. 2-5. 

Description.-"Shell of medium size, elongate-subtrapezoidal, mod- 

erately inflated, very inequilateral, equivalve. Beaks prominent, in- 

curved, prosogyrate, situated about one-fifth the length of the shell 

from the anterior end ; umbonal region broad. A very broad, shallow 

depression extends from the umbo downward and obliquely backward 

to the ventral margin, centering a little in advance of midlength. The 

umbonal ridge forms a broadly rounded swell extending to the lower 

posterior extremity. Dorsal margin long, straight; anterior margin 

evenly and rather sharply rounded; ventral margin nearly straight 

or even broadly concave centrally, curving upward at each end: 


posterior margin sharply rounded below at end of umbonal ridge, 

broadly rounded and inclined strongly forward above. Entire surface 

covered with fine, somewhat irregular radiating costae, narrower than 

the interspaces; the costre increase only slightly in size toward the 

margins and new costae are added by intercalation. Concentric growth 

lines are weak and inconspicuous except at resting stages, which may 

appear at irregular intervals a8 rather deep, conspicuous grooves. 

Dimensions of a paratype, an internal mold of a right valve: Length 

30.6 mm, height 16.5 mm, convexity 5.5 mm. 

The cardinal area is amphidetic, long and narrow; and incomplete 

impressions in molds show the presence of several chevron-shaped liga- 

mental grooves. The hinge is long and narrow; the central part is not 

clearly preserved but presumably it bears small, transverse teeth; 

each end of the binge widens and arches down slightly and bears several 

small teeth that trend obliquely downward and inward. The adductor 

scars are small and weakly or obscurely impressed on the internal 

molds." (Stephenson) 

Range in New Jersey- , 

RARITAN: lb 

T#ps.-Sayrerille, N. J. UShW 108613 

Striarca congesta (Conrad) 1875 


Trigonarca congesta Conrad, 1875, in Kerr's, Geol. N. Car. App. A 

p. 3, pl. 1, fig. 2. 

Axinea congesta Weller, 1907, p. 418, pl. 35, figs. 12-19. 

Striarca congesta Stephenson, 1923, p. 112, pl. 20, figs. 9-13. 

Description.-"Shell subcircular, slightly oblique, moderately con- 

vex, with a slight suggestion of an umbonal ridge. Beaks protruding 

a little above the hinge line, incurved, rather distant, directed neither 

forward or backward, located eentrally with respect to the area and 

slightly in advance of the midlength of the shell. The dimensions of 

an average-sized specimen, a right valve are: length 10.5 mm., height 

9.5 mm., convexity 3.5 mm., length of area about 6.5 mm. 

Hinge plate regularly arched on the lower margin, moderately 

broad at the extremities and narrow in the middle where the upper 

part of the plate is truncated by the cardinal area, the lower margin 

of which is straight. Several of the eentrally located teeth are short an? 

transverse to the hinge line; on the broader portions of the plate 

the teeth are longer and away from the center become progressively 

more obLique until at the extremities they are horizontal; in well pre- 

served specimens the teeth are seen to be finely striated at right angles 

to the plane of the hinge plate. 

Area amphidetic subtriangular, straight on the inner margin, 


90. CRETACEOUS FOSSILS 

bounded on the outer margln by a narrow, low carina overhanging 

inwardly; surface minutely striated at right angles to the hinge line. 

Inner surface of the shell smooth, except for low, narrow, down- 

lapping carinas bounding the lower or inner margins of the anterior 

and posterior adductor scars. 

Anterior and ventral margins broadly and regularly rounded; 

posterior margin subtruncated and slightly inclined forward. 

Surface of shell marked by fine concentric lines of growth and by 

coarser, irregular growth undulations; also by fine, faint, radiating 

lines which are scarcely visible macroscopically, and which vary in 

strength of development, being almost absent on some shells and on 

parts of others." (Stephenson.) 

Remarks.-Stephenson placed this form in the genus Striarca. 


MAGOTHY : - 7 

MERCHANTVILLE: 7, 8, 9, 10, 15 

WOODBURY: 18,19,20,24 

WENONAH : 35 

RED BANK : 60 

Range outside New Jersey.-North Carolina. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. "probably lost''; paratypes in TISlIN and 

ANSP. 

Family Glycymeridae 

Glycymeris morloni (Conrad) 1869 

Plate 14, Figure 7, 8, 9 

Azinea mortoni Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 44, pl. 1, 

fig. 14. 

Azinea naortoni, Whitfield, 1886, p. 99, pl. 11, figs. 23-25. 

Axinea alta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 101, pl. 11, figs. 26-29. 

Azinda subaz~strdis, Weller, 1907, p. 414, pl. 35, figs. 1-8. 

Glycymeris mortoni, Gardner, 1916, p. 540. 

FGlycymerk whitleyensk, Stephenson, 1923, p. 106, pl. 18. figs. 11-13. 

Olycymeris mortoni, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 41, pl. 33, 

fig. 7. 

Description.-Shell subcircular in outline, varying in size from 

15 mm. to 40 mm. in diameter, the convexity of each valve being from 

one-fourth to three-tenths the diameter; very slightly oblique, the beaks 

central in position. The internal casts compressed about the free margin 

especially in adult shells, the margin strongly crenulate when well 

preserved. The beaks strongly elevated and pointed, their lateral slopes 

meeting in an angle varying several degrees either way from 90'; the 

impression of the hinge-plate broad and arcuate, with 9 or 10 strong 


PELECYPODA 

teeth on each side of the beak, directed at nearly right angles to the 

inner margin of the hinge-plate, and with several smaller teeth in the 

middle beneath the beak. Anterior and posterior muscular impressions 

well defined, especially in the larger specimens. The shell substance 

thick, marked externally with more or less irregular, concentric linesbf 

growth, and by regular radiating costae which are more or less inter- 

rupted by the concentric lines upon partially exfoliated individuals. 

The beaks approximate and the cardinal areas small with divergent 

furrows. (Weller ) 

Remarks.-This is the common species of ffl,ycymeris from the New 

Jersey Cretaceous. 

The New Jersey specimens are poorly preserved and according to 

Stephenson (1923) may be the same as his C. whitleyensis whicii he 

described from the Black Creek formation of North Carolina. 


MERCHANTVILLE : 8,11,15,16,17 

MT. LAUREGNAVESINK: 40,46,48,49,50 

TINTON : 62, 63 

Range outside iVew Jerse,y.-Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. 

1'ype.-Prairie Bluff, Alabama. 

Glycymeris microdentus (Weller) 1907 


Axinea n~icrodentus IVeller, 1907, p. 416, pl. 35, figs. 10-11. 

Description.-Shell subcircular, attaining a length and breath of 

21.5 mm. each in the largest specimen observed, the convexity of each 

valve from one-fourth to three-tenths the diameter. The internal casts 

somewhat compressed about the free margins, the margin very faintly 

or not at all crenate. Beaks moderately elevated, pointed, and slightly 

oblique, their lateral slopes meeting at an angle of about 90" ; the impression 

of the hinge-plate of moderate width, with 11 or 12 teeth on 

each side of the beak, with several less distinct ones in the middle beneath 

the beak, the individual teeth on each side are slightly oblique 

to the inner margin of the hinge-plate, the anterior and posterior 

rows are nearly straight or slightly convex, meeting beneath the 

beak in a rounded angle. Both muscular impressions moderately developed. 

The external surface of the shell, as indicated by impressions, 

is marked by fine, regular, radiating costre, and by more or less irregular 

concentric lines of growth. The beaks are approximate and the cardinal 

areas small. (Wellcr) 

I Remarks.-This species is very similar to A. subaustralis, but may 

be distinguished from it by its much smaller teeth which are arranged 

in a broadly ,,-shaped hinge with the angle under the beak rounded, 



instead of in a broadly arcuate line. Another distinction is found in 

the almost or wholly obsolete crenulations upon the interior of the 

free margins of the valves. 

Stephenson (1936, p. 373) suggests that this species might be close 

to or identical with Q. subcrenata Wade, but since the Kew Jersey 

specimens are merely molds, it is impossible to make them cospecific. 

,Range in New Jersey- 

WENONAH : 34 

Type.-Crawfords Corner, N. J. NJSM 7672. 

Glycymeris comprerra (Weller) 1907 


Azinea compressa Weller, 1907, p. 417, pl. 35, fig. 9. 

Description.-Shell subcircular, the valves compressed, oblique, 

the height of the type specimen 23 rnm., its length about 25 mm., its 

convexity 4 mm. The anterior margin from the beak to the middle of thv 

basal margin forms nearly a semicircle, the posterior margin is obli- 

quely subtruncate above from the beak nearly to the middle of the 

shell, below which point it rounds into the basal margin. In the in- 

ternal casts the free margin is strongly crenate; the beaks pointed, the 

lateral slopes meeting in an angle of about 90°; impression of the 

hinge-plate rather broad, with 10 or more rather strong teeth visible 

on each side of the beak, the teeth are placed a little obliquely to the 

inner margin of the hinge-plate, the anterior row is slightly arcuate, 

the posterior row nearly straight. The posterior muscular impression 

is slightly defined, the anterior one scarcely recognizable. The external 

surface of the shell, as indicated by an impression, is marked only with 

concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species somewhat resembles A. subaustralis, but 

besides being more oblique, it is a much more compressed shell. The 

type consists of the nearly perfect cast of the interior of a right valve 

with the accompanying impression of the exterior. This specimen shows 

no sign of radiating costae upon the exterior, but associated with it is a 

very imperfect and much crushed impression of another individual, 

possibly belonging to the same species, which preserves the impressions 

of fine radiating costae upon at least a portion of the shell surface. 

These costae are much finer than in f3. mwtoni. (Weller) 


RED BANK : 60 

Type.-Middletown, N. J. NJSM 7510. 


PELECYPODA 

Family Pinnidae 

Pinna Iaqueata Conrad 1858 


Pinna laqueata Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser. vol. 3, 

p. 328. 

Pinnu laqueata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 81, pl. 16, figs. 1-2. 

Pinna laqueata, Weller, 1907, p. 419, pl. 36, fig. 1, pl. 37, fig. 1. 

Pinna laqueata, Gardner, 1916, p. 545, pl. 21, fig. 12. 

Pinna laqueata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 41. 

Description.-"Shell of moderate size, very rapidly expanding from 

the apex and ventricose, giving a subquadrangular section. Surface 

marked by from 9 to 11 strong, simple, radiating ribs on the dorsal 

portion, which are broad and rounded on the top and separated by very 

broad concave interspaces. The lower or basal portion is marked by 

very strong concentric stri~ parallel to the margin, so very irregular as 

to often form strong undulations of the surface. Line of division be- 

tween the upper and lower sections of the valves very strongly marked 

on the cast, often presenting the appearance of a distinct suture. Post- 

erior margin of the shell apparently double, beeing deeply emarginate 

or lobed at the line of division betmeen the upper and lower portions of 

the valve. The margin of the upper division is obliquely truncate, reced- 

ing from below to the hinge-line, and strongly curved inward at the 

central emargination. Lower section also strongly lobed and somewhat 

rounded." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-The specimens of this shell have only been observed in a 

fragmentary condition so that the full dimensions of the species cannot 

be determined from actual observation. The largest specimen illus- 

trated by Whitfield is 80 mm. in maximum height, and its length when 

complete must have been 250 mm. or more. The species is most charac- 

teristic of the Merchantville clay, but a few fragmentary individuals, 

which seem to belong to the same species, have been recognized from 

the'Navesink marl. It is fairly common at Maple Shade. 


MERCHANTVILLE: 10, 13, 15, 16 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 40,46,49,57 

Range outside New Jersey : Delaware, Mississippi. 

Type.-Owl Creek, Mississippi. 



Family Pedalionidae 

Gewilliopsis ensiformis (Conrad) 1858 

Plate 15, Fignre 4 


Gervillia ensiformis, Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser. 

vol. 3, p. 328, pl. 34, fig. 10. 

Gervillwpsis ensifmis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 73, pl. 15, figs. 8-11 ; pl. 16, 

fig. 5. 

Gervillwpsis ensiformis, Weller, 1907, p. 421, pl. 37, figs. 4-5; pl. 38, 

figs. 1-3. 

Geruillwpsis ensiformis. Wade, 1926, p. 51, p1. 13, figs. 1-3. 

Geruillwpsis ensiformis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42, pl. 

3, fig. 3. 

Description.-"Shell of moderately large size and thickened, falci- 

form, very oblique ; the body of the shell finally becoming parallel to the 

hinge or even slightly recurved, narrowing posteriorly and flattened on 

the surface. Hinge-line straight, short, not more than one-fourth the 

length of the shell in grown individuals; posterior wing only moder- 

ately elevated, and the posterior margin rapidly sloping backward from 

its extremity to the body of the shell, anterior wing very slight, the 

anterior end of the shell being squarely truncate at right, angles to the 

hinge. Beak of the shell small and terminal, elevated above the wing 

and continuing in a ridge to the surface of the valve. Greatest width of 

the shell opposite the posterior extremity of the hinge. Surface of the 

shell lamellose, and marked by numerous concentric varices of growth. 

and on the basal portion of the right valve indications of fine radiating 

lines occur. Hinge area moderately wide, marked by several transverse 

ligamental pits, arranged at a little more than one-fourth of an inch 

apart, and also by numerous obliqne corrugations. Muscular imprints 

large and obliquely situated. Substance of the shell highly nacreous 

throughout and iridescent." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of a large, nearly perfect individual illustrated by 

Whitfield, are: extreme length, 190 mm. ; length of hinge-line, 48 mm. ; 

height at posterior extremity of hinge-line, 44 mm. ; greatest width of 

body of shell, 35 mm. 

Remarks.-Some excellent specimens, with shell preserved, were 

found many years ago in the Woodbury and Marshalltom formations. 

Casts referred to this species occur in the Merchantrille, Wenonah, 

Navesink, and Red Bank. 


MERCHBNTVILLE : 15,16 


MARSHALLTOWN : 30 


PELECYE'ODA 95 

WENONAH : 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37,43, 53 

RED BANE : 59 

Range outside Xew Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, Alabama, Tennes- 

see, Mississippi. 

Type.-Tippah County, Mississippi. 

Gewilliopsis minima Whitfield 1886 


Oervilliopsis minima Whitfield, 1886, p. 74, pl. 15, fig. 7. 

Gervilliopsis minima, Weller, 1907, p. 423. 

Description-"Shell small, the only specimen observed, a cast, 

measuring only a trifle over one inch in length, and less than three- 

eighths of an inch in its greatest width. Shell elongate-elliptical, ex- 

tremely oblique, slightly curved, and the valves very ventricose. The 

beaks, as shown on the cast, have been pointed, the area wide, and the 

anterior hiatus has been proportionally large and distinct. The mus- 

cular scars are very distinct and well marked." (Whitfield). 

Remarks.-This species was described as "a miniature of 0. ensi- 

formis, except in its greater ventricosity." 


NAVESINK : 43 

Range uutside New Jersey: Mississippi 

Type.-Freehold, N. J. Lost. 

Inoceramus proximus Tuomey 1854 

Plate 15, Figures 6,7 ; Plate 42, Figure 1 

Inoceramus proxinaus Tuomey, 1854, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., vol. 7, 

p. 171. 

Inoceramus sagensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 76, pl. 14, fig. 15; pl. 15, figs. 

1-2. (Not of Owen, 1854.) 

Inoceramus proximus, Weller, 1907, p. 424, pl. 40, figs. 1-6; pl. 41, fig. 1. 

Inoceramus proximus, Wade, 1926, p. 49, pl. 12, fig. 2. 

Inoceramus proximus, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42, pl. 3, 

fig. 8. 

Description.-Shell in large examples attaining a height of 100 mm. 

or more, and a length of 120 mm. or more. The valves subovate in out- 

line, moderately convex, the hinge-line about two-thirds the length of 

the shell, the beak but little elevated above the hinge-line. The anterior 

margin sloping forward from thebeak and rounding gradually into the 

broadly rounded basal margin, posterior margin broadly rounded and 

meeting the hinge-line in an obtuse angle. Surface of the shell marked 



by more or less rounded or subangular, concentric undulations, which 

are often somewhat irregular in the strength of their development and 

in their distances apart. In addition to the undulations the surface of 

the shell is marked by fine concentric striee separated by intervals of 

1 mm. or less. 

Remarks.-This species is the common member of the genus in the 

Merchantville clay-marl, and includes the two specimens illustrated by 

Whitfield as I. sagensis. In Owen's original description of I. sagensis, 

which occurs typically in the western faunas, it is distinctly stated that 

the shell is not marked by concentric striations, while the Xew Jersey 

examples always have these lines when the surface markings can he 

seen; furthermore the valves of the eastern form are usually less 

strongly convex than those of the western specimens. The concentric 

striee are usually not recognizable upon the internal casts, although they 

may sometimes be detected, but they can almost always he seen upon 

the impressions of the outside of the shells. These strire in most cases 

seem to be slightly raised lines, but in one specimen from the Cliffwood 

clay they are apparently impressed. One large example from Lenola 

with a length of 135 mm., has a broad, smooth area without undulations 

around the free margins of the shell, a character which is sometimes 

seen in other species of the genus and which doubtless represents a 

senile stage of growth. Among the various specimens examined, there 

is considerable variation in the width of the spaces between the eoncen- 

trio undulations of the shell, and in some specimens these undulations 

bifurcate anteriorly and more rarely posteriorly. (Weller) 


RARITAN : 1 

MAGOTHY: 5,6 

MERCHANTVILLE : 8,10,15,16 



Range outside New Jersey :-Delaware, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala- 

bama, Texas, North Carolina ( 9 ). 

Type.-Columbus, Miss. 

Inoceramus quadrans Whitfield 1886 


Inoceramus sagensis, var. quadrans Whitfield, 1886, Pill. N. J., p. 79, 

PI. 14, fig. i6. 

Inoceramus quadvans Weller, 1907, p. 426, pl. 39, fig. 1. 

Description.-Shell moderately convex, subquadrangular, broadly 

subovate, the dorsal and ventral margins subparallel or slightly diverg- 

ing posteriorly. The beak large and prominent, produced beyond the 

hinge-line. Anterior margin t,rnnoate to a point below the middle, and 


PELECYPODA 97 

forming with the hinge-line nearly a right angle ; below the middle it 

rounds into the nearly straight basal margin, which in turn posteriorly 

passes with a regular curve into the posterior margin which is rounded 

below and obliquely suhtruncate above, meeting the posterior extremity 

of the hinge-line in an oblique angle. Thesurface is marked by somewhat 

irregular subangular undulations which are more crowded and 

less distinct to~vards the umbonal region, those on the outer portion 

of the shell being rather widely separated. "The middle of the cast 

for about two-thirds the width is marked by strong, rather deep pits, 

connected by shallow furrows, showing that the interior of the shell 

was covered with strong pearl-like protuberances." (Whitfield). 

The dimensions of the type specimen are : length, 102 mm. ; height 

from hinge-line to basal margin, 78 mm. 

Remarks.-Whitfield described this as a variety of I. sagensis, but 

it is definitely distinct. Furthermore, the specimen regarded by Whitfield 

as I. sagemis is actually I. prozimns (see p. 95) I. quadrans is 

characterized by its truncate anterior margin and subquadangular 

form. It is known only from the type specimen. 



Type.-Near Burlington, N. J. ; ANSP 18710. 

lnocerarnus eonhrtirn-rmnulatus Roemer 1849 

Plate 15, Figure 8 ; Plate 18, Figure 10 

Inocerami~s confertim-annz~lahas Roemer, 1849, Texas, p. 402. 

Inoceramus barabini Whitfield, 1886, p. 75, pl. 15, figs. 3-5. (Not I. 

6arabini Morton) , 

Inocerms confertimannulatius, Weller, 1907, p. 427, pl. 39, figs. 2-5. 

Inocerantus confertimannt~latus, 9 Qardner, 1916, p. 547. 

Description.-"Shell of only moderate size, transversely ovate or 

elliptical, with moderately to prominently convex valves. Beaks large, 

only slightly projecting beyond the line of the hinge, and situated near 

the anterior end. Hinge-line two thirds as long as the shell, and rapidly 

rounding at the posterior extremity into the posterior margin, which 

is more broadly rounded than the anterior extremity. Basal line gently 

and somewhat gradually arcuate, hut more rapidly curving upward 

near the anterior part. Surface of the shell marked by regular concentric, 

rounded undulations parallel to the margin of the valve, and separated 

by concave interspaces. Near the outer limits of the valve the 

undulations become more irregular, as if taking on old-age characters." 

(Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of tho two specimens illustrated by Whitfield are: 

length, 54 mm. and 50 mm. ; height from hinge-line to ventral margin, 

39 mm. and 36 mm.; convexity of the larger specimen, 14.5 mm. . 



Remarks.-The specimens seem to agree most closely with I. con- 

fertim-annulatus Roem., described from the Eagle Ford shales of 

Texas, and have therefore been so identified, ; they resemble I. proximw 

and I. confertim-annulnttis much more closely than they do I. barabini. 

The species is apparently somewhat rare as it has been met with only 

rarely in the recent collections. 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK 41, 43, 47, 53 

Range outside NEW Jersey.-Maryland, Texas, Delaware. 

Type locality.-New Braunfels, Texas; University of Bonn 

(Germany), 114. 

lnocemmus pro-obliqua Whitfield 1886 


Inaceramzis pro-obliqzia Whitfield, 1886, p. 80, pl. 14, fig. 17. 

lnoceramns proobliqua, Weller, 1907, p. 428, pl. 38, fig. 4. 

Description.-"Shell somewhat below the medium size for the 

genus; subovate in outline, the axis of the shell being directed forward 

of a right angle to the hinge-line, instead of backward as is usual with 

nearly all shells. Hinge-line shorter than the width of the body of the 

shell and forming an angle of about l lOo to the axis of the valve. Left 

valve, the only one known, extremely ventricose, with a rather small 

beak, which is but little elevated above the line of the hinge, and situated 

in advance of the anterior margin of the valve. Height of the valve a 

little greater than its extreme width or length. Surface of the cast 

marked by numerous, regularly increasing concentric undulations, 

which are moderately sharp on the crests and the interspaces broadly 

concave. There are also indications of radiating lines along the middle 

of the valve, as in many species of the genus." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 42 mm. ; height, 

45 mm. 

Remarks.-This species of Znoceramus is remarkable in that the 

line of obliquity is directed forward in passing from the beak to the 

basal margin instead of backward as is usually the case. The species 

was established upon a single individual, and it has not been met with 

in any of the recent collections. 

Known only from the single specimen. 


NAVESINK : 41 

Type locality.-Holmdel, N. J. NJSX 9677. 


PELECYPODA 

Inoceramus ? perovalis Conrad 1852 


Inoceramus perovalis Conrad, 1852, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. ser. 3, 

vol. 2, p. 299, pl. 27, fig. 7. 

Inocerarnus perovalis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 80. 

Inoceramus ? perovalis, Weller, 1907, PI. 38, fig. 5. 

lnoceramus perovalis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42, pl. 3, 

fig. 9. 

Description.-Shell small, almost regularly oval, the width and 

height being nearly as six and seven. Valves nearly equally convex, 

the right side perhaps a very trifle more convex than the left. Hinge- 

line comparatively long when the oval form is considered, being about 

three-fifths as long as the greatest width of the shell and oblique to the 

axis of the valve. Beak of the right valve sharp, projecting much be- 

yond the line of the hinge, giving a proportionally broad or high hinge 

1 area, and on the cast, which is the condition of the type specimen, shows 

the single strong ligamental depression opposite the apex. Surface 

of the shell, as indicated on the cast, marked by proportionally distinct 

concentric lines parallel to the margin of the valves. 

In form this species is very distinct from any other described, and 

cannot well be confounded with them; the obliquely oval form, only a 

little deflected from an erect position, is also quite distinctive. The 

only individual known is the type specimen figured by Mr. Conrad, as 

above cited, and is entirely a cast with the left valve imperfect. In 

size, it is less than one and three-eighth inches in height, measuring 

along the axis of the valve, by a little more than one and one-eighth 

inches in width. The remarkable height of the hinge area and the im- 

pression of a single ligamental pit is somewhat peculiar and gives one 

some doubt as to its true aftinities with the ordinary forms of Inocera- 

mus. 

I 

1 


"NEW JERSEY" 

Type.-(Labels say both "New Jersey" and "Chesapeake & 

Delaware Canal") ANSP 18803. 

Inoceramus sp. 


An impression of a ~pecimen of Inoceramus, too poorly preserved 

for specific identification, is in the collection of the Wagner Free 

Institute of Science from the Merchantville formation at Lenola, N. J. 



Family Pteriidae 

Pteria petrosa (Conrad) 1853 


Avicula petrosa conrid, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 2, p. 274, pl. 24, fig. 15. 

F Auieula linguaeformis, Evans & Shumard, 1854, proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

Phil., p. 163. 

Pteria petrosa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 68, pl. 14, fig. 10. 

Pteria petrosa, Weller, 1907, p. 429, pl. 42, figs. 1-2. 

Pteria petrosa, Gardner, 1916, p. 548, pl. 21, fig. 10. 

Pteria petrosa, Stephenson, 1923, p. 131, pl. 2'7, figs. 5-6. 

. Pteria petvosa, Wade, 1926, p. 51, pl. 13, fig. 7. 

Description.-Shell oblique, winged in front and hehiud, the hingeline 

straight with the beaks in front of the middle. Both valves rather 

strongly convex, but the left a little more so than the right. Posterior 

wing compressed, of moderate length, pointed behind, its posterior 

margin ooncave; anterior wing narrower, pointed in front, less compressed 

than the other, its free margin nearly straight or slightly concave 

; in the right valve it is separated from the body of the shell by a 

narrow and shallo~v sulcus which extends from the anterior side of the 

beak downward and usually a little obliquely backward to the anteroventral 

margin; just in front of the marginal extremity of this sulcus 

the surface is slightly bulged so as to leave a byssal opening betveen 

the valves. The antero-ventral margin slopes obliquely backward from 

the anterior extremity of the hinge-line; it is slightly ooncave to the 

base of the anterior wing beyond which point it becomes slightly convex, 

cnning more and more below into the rounded postero-basal margin; 

the posterior margin oblique below and sinuate above. Surface of the 

shell marked only by concentric lines of growth which are inconspicuous 

on the internal casts. 

The dimensions of a large specimen are: length from the anterior 

extremity of the hinge-line to the postero-basal margin, 51 mm.; 

length of hinge-line, 37 mm.; distance of beak from the anterior extremity 

of hinge-line, 12 mm. ; convexity of right valve, 10 mm. 

(Weller) 

Remarks.-This species occurs in nodules in the Cliffwood locality 

and less commonly at the top of the Wenonah sand. The species shows 

variation in the obliquity of the shell and also in the extension of the 

posterior wing, although the varihtion in this latter character may be 

more apparent than real on account of imperfections on the specimens. 

These New Jersey specimens do not: seem to possess any charact,eristies 

to distingish them from the western shell described as Avicula 

lingweformis, and that name must undoubtedly be considered as a 


PELECYPODA 101 

synonym of Conrad's species. Some of the New Jersey specimens are 

a little more oblique than the western shell as illustrated by Meek, but 

others possess essentially the same form. 


MAUOTHY: 5,6 


Range outside New Jersey.-Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi (Western Interior ?). 

Type.-Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. Lost. 

Pteria lariper (Morton) 1834 

Plate 18,'~i~ure 1 

Avicula laripes Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U.S. p. 63, 

pl. 17, fig. 5. 

Pteria laripes, Whitfield, 1886, pl. 14, fig. 9. 

Pteria laripes, Weller, 1907, p. 431, pl. 42, fig. 3. 

Pteria laripes, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42, pl. 3, fig. 10. 

Description.-"Shell of hut moderate size, oblique ovate and 

moderately convex, with rather prominent beaks. Hinge less than half 

the length of the body of the shell, forming on the posterior side a 

proportionally large wing, which is obtusely pointed at the extremity 

and only shallorvly sinuate on the outer margin between the hinge 

line and body of the shell. Allterior wing unknown. Surface of the 

shell, on the left valve, strongly marked by distant elevated radii, 

which seem to have been alternately coarse and fine on the posterior 

half of the valve, judging from the only cast examined, and equal 

in strength and moderately curved forward on the anterior half; 

while the margin of the valve seems to have been marked by strongly 

projecting points corresponding to the ribs." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-There is some question as to the occurrence of this 

species in New Jersey. The specimen used by Whitfield is probably the 

type of the species which was said to have come from Delaware by 

Morton in connection with his original description ; however, the label 

in The Academy of National Sciences says both New Jersey and Dela- 

ware. 


"New Jersey" 

Range outside New Jersey.--Delaware. 

Type.-"New Jersey and Delaware" ANSP 18714. 

Pteria navitula Whitfield 1886 


Pteria nauicula, Whitfield, 1888, p. 70, p1.14, fig. 8. 



Pteria navicula, Weller, 1907, p. 432, pl. 42, fig. 4. 

Description.-"Shell of small size, the greatest length being less 

than half an inch; very oblique and angularly ventricose, the height 

scarcely more than half the length. Hinge line nearly as long as the 

body of the shell, mucronate and slightly prolonged at the posterior 

extremity, which is separated from the body of the shell by a slight 

sinuosity. Anterior wing, if any, not preserved on the specimen; but 

the shell, although somewhat imperfect, does not appear to have been 

winged on the anterior side. Posterior extremity of the body of the 

(left) valve obtusely pointed, and the anterior end narrowly rounded 

from the extremity of the cardinal line. Basal line broadly curved 

gradually descending from thc anterior end to about the posterior 

third of the length, where it again rises to the extremity. Beaks small, 

rising a little above the hinge line, and prominently ventricose. Surface 

of the shell marked only by concentric strioe, so far as can be determined 

from the partially exfoliated individual. Right valve unknown." 

(Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Described from a single left valve from Haddonfield. A 

single specimen from Middletom has also been reported. 


WOODBURY: 24 

RED BANK : 60 


Reria sp. 


One smooth cast of a pelecypod from the Chesapeake and Delaware 

Canal in the collections of the Academy is referred to the genus Pteria 

without any attempt at specific identification. 

Figured specimen.-Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del; ANSP 

19353. 

Phelopleria dalli (Stephenson) 1936 ? 


Pte& ? dalli Stephenson, 1936, Bull. Oeol. Soc. Amer. Vol. 47, p. 389, 

pl. 3, figs. 19-20. 

Phelopteria dalli Stephenson, 1953, U. S. Oeol. Surv. Prof. Paper 242, 

p. 68, pl. 14, figs. 4-14,1952=1953. 

I Phelopteria ddli Stephenson, 1954, p. 29, pl. 6, figs. 18, 19. 

This species is represented in the collection from the southern pit 

of the New Jersey Clay Products Co. (USOS 19014) by incomplete 

internal molds only, including 5 left valves and 1 right valve. The left 


I 

I 

PELECWODA 

valves range in size from a small shell 10+ mm. long to one 30+ mm. 

long, and the right valve pertains to a large shell 50+ mm. long. In 

form these molds are similar to, if not indentical with, Phelopteria dalli 

(Stephenson), a species dredged from a depth of 200 fathoms in the 

Atlantic Ocean on Banquereau Bank off the east coast of Nova Scotia. 

Two of the incomplete molds, a left valve and a right valve, are shown 

in the illustrations. (Stephenson.) 


RARITAN: 1 b 

Range uutside New Jersey.-Banquereau, Texas. 

Type.-Banquereau, off Nova Scotia; Pale Peahody Museum 14811. 

Meleagrinella abrupta (Conrad) 1853 


AvW abrupta, Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 2, p. 274, pl. 24, figs. 5-6. 

Meleagrinella abrupta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 72, pl. 14, figs. 11-14. 

Meleagrinella abrupta, Weller, 1907, p. 433, pl. 42, figs. 5-9. 

Description.-"Shell small, inequivalve, rhombo-quadrate in out- 

line, the hinge-line long and straight, reaching nearly the entire length 

of the shell, beaks small, situated at about the anterior third or fourth 

of the length of the hinge; that of the left valve rising a little above the 

cardinal line, and that of the right just to its margin. Right valve with 

a deep notch-like slit on the anterior side just below the hinge, with a 

narrow, deep groove running from it to the apex of the valve on the 

exterior surface. Left valve provided with an internal fold, quite indis- 

tinct except under a glass, on the anterior side of the beak, which cor- 

responds to the byssal notch of the right valve. Anterior margin of the 

valve somewhat regularly rounded; basal margin broadly rounded, and 

the posterior obliquely truncate, passing backward slightly from the 

hinge extremity to the postero-basal line. Surface of the valves smooth 

or very finely lamellose, and marked with concentric undulae. When 

not at all worn or macerated the surface of the left valve shows indistinct 

thread-like interrupted, radiating lines which remind one very strongly 

of those seen on species of Placunomya." (Whitfield). 

The dimensions of the right valve illustrated by Whitfield are: 

length, 14.5 mm. ; height, 12 mm. 

I Remarks.-Very rare and not found recently. 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 41,43 

Type.-Nimrod Woodward's farm near Holmdel, N.J. ANSP 19670. 



Family Pulvinitidae 

Pulvinites argenteus Conrad 1858 9 


Pulvinites argenteus, Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd Ser. 

vol. 3, p. 330, pl. 34, fig. 5. 

Pulvinites sp., Carter, 1937, Maryland Geol. Surv. Vol. 13, p ,255. 

Ptrlvinites argentezrs, ? Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 41, pl. 

3 fig. 11. 

Carter reported Pulvinites sp. from the Crosswicks formation in 

the spoil bank east of Summit Bridge along the Chesapeake and Dela- 

ware Canal. A comparison of Carter's specimen with specimens of P. 

argenteus from Tippah County, Mississippi (ANSP 19998) suggests 

that the Delaware specimen be tentatively referred to this species. 

P. argenteus has been reported pruviously from the Ripley forma- 

tion at Coon Creek, Tennessee, and the Chattahoochee River, Georgia 

and Alabama, the Providence sand of the Chattahoochee River, the Owl 

Creek formation of Mississippi, the Nacatoh sand of Arkansas and the 

Corsicana marl (Navarro) of Texas. If the Delaware specimen be 

cospecific with the southern forms, it is stratigraphically lower than 

previously reported. No other specimens of Pulvinites have been re- 

ported from the Atlantic Coastal Plain. 

Typ6.-Owl Creek, Mississippi; lost. 

Family Ostreadae 

Ostrea cretacoa Morton 1834 ( t) 


Ostrea cretacea, Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U.S., p. 52, 

pl. 19, fig. 3. 

? Ostrea cretacea, Weller, 1907, p. 434, pl. 42, fig. 11. 

Ostrea cretacea, Stephenson, 1923, p. 135, pl. 28, figs. 8-17, 

Description-"Shell suboval to subtriangular in outline, the height 

greater than the length, compressed to moderately ventricose; left valve 

more ventricose than the right valve. Shell wall moderately thick. Beaks 

situated centrally; on the left valve the beak varies from dull and non 

prominent to pointed and rather prominent; on the right valve the beak 

is small and nonprominent. Dimensions of the type specimen, a left 

valve : Length 24 mm., convexity 6 mm. Hinge on left valve triangular, 

subequilateral, crossed by concentric growth lines. Ligament pit tri- 

angular, deeply impressed, broad at the inner margin. Hinge on right 

valve triangular, smaller than on left valve, with the base longer than 

the sides. Ligamental pit shallow. Adductor scar below the midheight 

and toward the posterior margin. Anterior and posterior margins 



straight or curved and diverging from the hinge extremities; ventro 

margins typically rather sharply rounded. The m'argin of the left valve 

overlaps the margin of the right valve, but the two valves meet ap- 

proximately in a plane." (Stephenson) 

Remarks.-Stephenson believes that the New Jersey specimens are 

too poorly preserved for positive identification with this species. 

Range in iVew Jersey- 

MAGOTHY: 5 


North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas. 

Type.-Erie Bluff, Alabama; ANSP 2270. 

Ostrea congesta Conrad 1843 


Ostrea congesta, Conrad, 1843, Nicollet's Rep. Expl. N.W. p. 167. 

? Ostrea congesta, Weller, 1907, p. 435, pl. 43, fig. 16. 

Ostrea congesta, Stephenson, 1941, p. 105, pl. 13, figs. 6-1:3. 

Description.-Shell small, the individuals often crowded closely to- 

gether in considerable numbers, so as to assume quite irregular forms. 

Surface of attachment of the lower valve large, beyond which the margin 

of the shell is abruptly deflected upward at right angles to the attached 

portion; upper valve flat or a little concave, having the form of the 

attached portion of the lower valve. 

The dimensions of a specimen referred to the species are: length, 

12.5 mm. ; width, 15 mm. 

Remarks.-Weller questionably identified this species from New 

Jersey. "The species may be recognized by the proportionately large 

area of attachment with the abruptly deflected margins of the lower 

valve." 


MAQOTHY: 5 

Range outside New Jersey: Gulf Coast, "Western Interior." 

Type.-"Cretaceous mark on the Missouri"; lost 

Ostrea panda Morton 1833 


Ostrea panda., Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 23, p. 293. 

Ostrea panda, Whitfield, 1886, p. 30. 

Ostrea panda, Weller, 1907, p. 437, pl. 42, fig. 10. 

Ostrea panda, Stephenson, 1941, p. 104, pl. 15, figs. 3-6. 

Ostrea panda, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42. 

Description.-Shell rugose, irreg~llarly suhovate in outline; the 



dimensions of a nearly complete lower valve are: height, 21.5 mm.; 

width, 26 mm.; free margins of the valves corrugated by rather broad, 

rounded plieations which do not extend to the beak, those towards the 

cardinal margins becoming smaller; shell also marked by more or less 

irregular concentric lines of growth which are sublamellose upon some 

portions of the valre; beak rather sharply pointed and separated from 

the hinge-line by a fiat, triangular, cardinal area whose surface lies 

nearly at a right angle to the general plane of the valve. The upper 

valre not recognized in the Xem Jersey collections. (Weller) 

Rem,arks.-This species was originally described from the Cretaceous 

of Delaware and later was found at various Eocene localities in South 

Carolina and Alabama. 


MARSHALLTOWN: 28,29 

Range ozatside New Jersey- 

Delaware (Mount Laurel-Navesink), Alabama, Tennessee, 

Texas, Arkansas; also Eocene of South Carolina and 

Alabama. 

T?jpe.-Saint Georges, Delaware ; apparently lost. 

Ostrea subspatulata Forbes 1845 


Ostrea st~bspatulata Forbes 1845, Quart. Jonr. Geol. Soc. Lond., vol. 1, 

p. 61, text figs. pp. 61-62. 

Ostrea subspatulata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 32, pl. 3, fig. 14. 

Ostrea subspatulata, Weller, 1907, p. 440, pl. 42, fig. 15. 

Ostrea subspatulata, Gardner, 1916,'p. 561, pl. 23, fig. 3 ; pl. 24, fig. 1. 

Ostrea subspatulata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 158, pl. 40-41. 

Description.-Shell subovate in outline, higher than wide, usually 

widest below the middle, the dimensions of a nearly complete east of 

the interior of a lower valve are: length, 45 mm.; width, 31 mm. Lower 

valve strongly arcuate longitudinally, the cast nearly smooth or with 

a few obscure concentric undulations, the muscular impression large, 

situated in the lower left-hand quarter of the east. The impressior~s of 

the exterior of the shell show rather strong concentric nndulations. 

Remarks.-In New Jersey this species is only known in the form of 

casts, none of which have been observed to attain so large dimensions 

as some of the examples from the South. The most characteristic 

feature of the species is its strongly arcuate form longitudinally, a feature 

which is even more conspicuous in the shell itself than in the casts 

because of the great thickening of the shell in its central part. (Weller) 

Range in New Jerseg- 

WENONAH: 34,35 




Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, 

Mississippi, Arkansas. 

Type.-South Washington, N. C. ; lost. 

Ostrea monmouthensis Weller 1907 

Plate 16, Figures 11, 12, Plate 19, Figure 1 

Ostrea monmoz~thensis Weller, 1907, p. 442, pl. 43, fig. 15. 

Ostrea ntonmouthensis, Gardner, 1916, p. 558, pl. 23, figs. 4-5. 

Ostrea monmouthcnsis, Wade, 1926, p. 54, pl. 14, figs. 6-8. 

Ostrea monmouthensis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 43, pl. 3, 

fig. 12. 

Description.-Shell slightly oblique, suhovate in outline, the dimen- 

sions of the type specimen being: length, 28 mm. ; width, 22 mm. Upper 

valve depressed convex, nearly smooth, marked only by inconspicuous 

concentric lines of growth. Along the ventral margin the edge is folded 

into sharply angular teeth which do not extend as plications into the 

body of the shell, these tooth-like crenulations becoming smaller and 

at last disappearing upon the lateral margins of the shell. Lower valve 

not known. (Weller) 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 40, Arneytown. 


Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee. 

Type.-Crawfords Corner, N. J.; NJSM 7619. 

Ostrea tecticosta Oabb 1860 


Ostrea tecticosta, Gabb, 1860, .lour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 2nd ser. vol. 4, 

p. 403, pl. 68, figs. 47-48. 

Ostrea tecticosta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 33, pl. 3, figs. 1-2. 

Ostrea tecticosta, Weller, 1907, p. 443, pl. 43, figs. 17 ( ?), 18,19. 

Ostrea tecticosta, Oardner, 1916, p. 560, pl. 24, figs. 24. 

Ostrea tecticosta, Stephenson, 1923, p. 143, pl. 38, figs. 1-9. 

Ostrea tecticosta, Wade, 1926, p. 54, pl. 14, figs. 4-5. 

Ostrea tectiwsta, Stephenson, 1941, p. 107. 

Description.-"Shell small, elongate, oval, ovate or irregularly 

elliptical in outline, slightly curved, with a small, strongly-twisted 

beak and moderately-sized ligaments1 area on the lower valve. The 

lower valve usually shows a large cicatrized area of attachment and 

is strongly plicated, the plica being usually sharply rounded and very 


CRETACEOTJS FOSSILS 

rugose from concentric lamellose lining. The inner margins of the 

valves are also crenulated on the upper half or two-thirds of their 

length, and more minutely so on the inner border at the junction of 

the valves just below the ligamental area. Muscular scar large, but 

only moderately marked. Upper valves slightly convex and destitute 

of plications except near the border." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-In general these Wenonah specimens somewhat resemble 

the 0. larva type of oysters, hut the lower valve was apparently attach- 

ed uniformly by a much larger area than any of the New Jersey forms 

here referred to 0. falcata, 0. mesentericn, and 0. nasuta. 

Range in Xezv Jersey- 

TVENONAH : 35 

HORNERSTOWN: Harrisonville, N. J. 

Range outside Nezv Jersey- 

Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, 

Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas. 

Type.-Cotype-N. J. ; ANSP 18761. Cotype-Tennessee ; 

ANSP 18808. 

Orlrea falcata Morton 1830 


Ostrea falcata, Morton, 1830, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 1st ser., vol. 6, 

p. 50, pl. 1, fig. 2. 

Ostrea larva, Lamarck, Cook, 1868, Geol. N. J., p. 375, text fig. Not of 

Lamarck. 

Ostrea larva, TVhitficld, 1886, (in part) p. 34, pl. 3, figs. 5-6 

(not figs. 3-4). 

Ostrea falcata, Weller, 1907, p. 444, pl. 43, figs. 3-6. 

Ostrea larva var. falcata, Gardner, 1916, p. 552, pl. 22, fig. 4. 

Ostrea falcata, Stephenson, 1923. p. 154, pl. 39, figs. 1-10. 

Ostrea falcata, Wade, 1926, p. 155, pl. 14, figs. 9-13. 

Ostrea falcata, Stephenson, 1941, p. 111, pl. 14, figs. 7-8. 

Ostrea falcata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 42, pl. 3, fig. 13. 

Deso-iption.-Shell of medium size, laterally arcuate. The dimen- 

sions of an average specimen are : length along the arcuate median line 

from beak to posterior estremity, 47 mm. ; distance between beak and 

posterior estremity, 28 mm.; width of shell at middle, 16 mm.; length 

of hinge-line, 20 mm. Shell usually more or less strongly auriculate. 

the ears subequal or with one ear somewhat larger than the other. 

Hinge-line straight. Shell marked with from seven to ten deep plica- 

tions which originate along the lower or convex margin and extend 

nearly to the beak, not learing a conspicuous non-plicate central area, 

the plicat~ons towards the a:~t-rior hinge extremity decreasing re- 


PELECYPODA 

gularly in size ; along the upper or concave margin the shell is marked 

by a series of short, marginal plications. Lower valve moderately con- ' 

vex, with a small scar of attachment; upper valve much flatter, its 

plications similar to those of the lower valve. 

Remarks.-This species, as observed in New Jersey, is most ahund- 

antly represented in the Marshalltown marl, where it sometimes occurs 

in innumerable individuals. In its laterally arcuate form it resembles 

0. mesenterica, hut it differs from that species in its larger size, and in 

its more strongly plicated shell, there being no central non-plicate area 

as in that species. The specimens vary greatly in the form and size of 

the auriculations, and to some extent in the number of plications, but 

not so much in this latter respect as does 0. mesenterica. Both of these 

species have usually been considered as members of a single species, 0. 

larva, but they are clearly distinct, and are for the most part restricted 

to different geologic horizons, and in the New Jersey faunas, at least, 

do not have intermediate connecting forms. Their relationship to the 

true 0. larva must he investigated. (Weller) 


MARSHALLTOWN: 28,32 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 38, 47, 48 


Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 

Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas. 

Type.-Label says "New Jersey ", although Morton says 

St. Oeorges, Delaware ; ANSP 19351. 

Ostrea mesenterica Morton 1834 


Ostrea falcata war. B (0. mesenterica) Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. 

Cret. Gr. U. S., p. 51, pl. 9, fig. 7. 

Ostrea larva, Whitfield, 1886, (part) p. 34, pl. 3, fig. 7 (not figs. 3-6). 

Ostrea mesenterica, Weller, 1907, p. 446, pl. 43, figs. 9-14. 

Ostrea larva var. mesenterica, Qardner, 1916, p. 555, pl. 22, figs. 6-8; 

pl. 23, figs. 1-2. 

Ostrea mesenterica, Stephenson, 1941, D. 113, pl. 16, figs. 7-9. 

Ostrea mesenterica, Groot, Organist arid Richards, 1954, p. 42, p1.3, 

fig. 14. 

Description.-Shell small, laterally arcuate. The dimensions of an 

average specimen are: length along the arcuate median line from the 

beak to the posterior extremity, 32 mm.; distance between beak and 

posterior extremity, 26 mm.; width of shell at middle, 9 mm. Shell 

usually auriculate, the ears variable in size and sometimes nearly ob- 

solete, the posterior usually larger than the anterior. Shell strongly 



plicate along its lower convex margin, the plieations variable in number 

and size, not extending into the median portion of the shell, those near 

the hinge-line notably smaller than those in the middle of the shell; 

the plications of the upper concave margin m~zch smaller than those of 

the convex margin. Central area of the shell market1 only by the eoncentric 

lines of growth. Lower valve moderately convex, the scar of 

attachment variable, but usually small and restricted to the apical 

region; upper valve flat. 

Remarks.-This little oyster is extremely abundant in the Navesink 

marl, and has not been observed in any of the beds below that horizon 

in New Jersey. It is one of several forms of the type of 0. larva in the 

New Jersey faunas, and can always he distinguished by its small 

size and the nonplicate central area of the shell. The number of plications 

along the convex margin is exceedingly variable, a fact which can 

be best observed in the larger plications along the lower or convex 

margin of the shell, excluding the smaller ones near the extremity of 

the hinge-line, the number varying from four to as many as nine or ten. 

(Weller) 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESIh'K: 37,38,39,40,41,42,45,47,48,49, 

53,54 

RED BAh'E : 59 

TINTON: 63 


Delaware, Maryland, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas. 

Type.-Shrewshury, N. J.; lost. 

Ostrea nasuta Morton 1834 


Ostrea fdcata Var. A (0. nasuta) Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Remains. 

Cret. Group. U.S. p. 51, pl. 9, fig. 6. 

Ostrea nasuta, Gabb, 1861,, Synop. Moll. Cret. Form. p. 209. 

Ostrea larva var. nasuta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 35, pl. 3, figs. 3-4. 

Ostrea nasuta, Weller, 1907, p. 447, pl. 43, figs. 7-8. 

Ostrea larva var. nasuta, Cfardner, 1916, p. 554, pl. 22, fig. 4. 

Description.-Shell of medium size, laterally arcuate. The dimen- 

sions of a rather small individual are: length along the median line 

from beak to posterior extremity, 45 mm.; distance between beak and 

posterior extremity, 21 mm., width of shell at middle, 17 mm., length 

of hinge-line, 12 mm. Shell more or less strongly aurieulate, the auri- 

culations variable in size. Hinge-line straight. Shell surface marked 

by from four to seven profound and broad plications along the lower 

or convex margin, which rapidly die out, leaving the central area of the 

sheU nonplicate; the upper or concave margin marked by much smaller, 



short, marginal plications or denticulations. Lower valve moderately 

convex, with a small scar of attachment; upper valve flat. Entire sur- 

face ,of both valves marked by fine, more or less irregular, concentric 

lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species is a close ally of 0. mesenterica. The two 

species agree in having the median portion of the shell nonplieate, but 

0. nasuta is a much larger and coarser shell, with broader and more 

profound plications. It should, perhaps, be considered only as a varietal 

form of 0. mesenterica, but is for the most part characteristic in 

New Jersey, of higher beds than the Navesink marl, where that species 

is most abundant. The two forms usually do not occur in association, 

and it is at least convenient to have it special name for the designation 

of this form. (Weller) 



RED BANK : 60 

TINTON: 62,65 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland 

Type.-Saint Georges, Delaware ; lost 

Ostrea plumosa Morton 1833 

Plate 17, Figures 9,lO; Plate 18, Figure 3; Plate 19, Figures 4-6 

Ostrea plumosa, Morton, 1833, Amer. Jour. Sci. ser. 1, vol. 23, p. 293. 

Ostrea denticulifera, Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. vol. 3, 

p. 330, pl. 34, figs. 1, 8. 

Ostrea plumosa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 30, pl. 3, figs. 12, 13. 

Ostrea denticulifera, Whitfield, 1886, p. 29, pl. 3, figs. 8, 9. 

Ostrea plumosa, Weller, 1907, p. 439, pl. 42, figs. 16-18. 

Ostrea crenulimarginata, Weller, 1907, p. 441, pl. 42, figs. 12, 13 

(not of Gabb). 

Ostreo denticulifera, Weller, 1907, p. 436, pl. 43, figs. 1, 2. 

Ostrea plumosa, Gardner, 1916, p. 556. 

Ostrea plumosa, Stephenson, 1923, p. 147, pl. 38, figa. 14-17, pl. 39, 

figs. 11-15. 

Ostrea plumosa, Wade, 1926, p. 53, pl. 14, figs. 1-3,7. 

Ostrea plumosa, Stephenson, 1941, p. 109, pl. 16, figs. 46. 

Description.-Shell variable in shape and outline, being subtri- 

angular, subovate, and subcircular in different individuals. Shell wall . 

thin to moderately thick. Left valve compressed and generally attached 

over the greater part of its area to some object; right valve compressed 

to moderately ventricose. In typical specimens the midline of the shell 

is curved or even sinuous, but in this character the species is extremely 

variable. 



Hinge variable in shape, but in general triangular and crossed by 

numerous concentric growth lines; ligamental pit on left valve more 

deeply impressed than on right valve. On typical specimens the jnner 

anterior and posterior margins are crenulated to different distances 

from the hinge. 

Inner surface of shell smooth; adductor acar large, and situated 

a little above the midheight and toward the posterior margin of the 

shell. 

Surface marked by fine concentric growth lines and on typical 

specimens by radiating, fine, unequal, bifurcating costae, which are 

extremely variable in strength of development, being very obscure or 

even absent on some specimens. 

Remarks.-This species and its various synonyms have been fully 

discussed by Stephenson (1941 pp. 108-111). 

Distrz3utwn in New Jersey- 

WOODBURY: 24 


WENONAH: 34 

AiT. LAUREL-ATA'BVESINK : 42 

RED BANK: Shrewshury River 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, 

Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas. 

Type.-Arneytown, N. J. ; ANSP 108807. 

Ostrea (Alectryonial jerseiana Stephenson 1954 


Ostrea jerseiana, Stephenson, 1954, p. 29, pl. 6, fig. 20. 

Description.-"This species is represented in the collection from 

the southern pit of the New Jersey Clay Products Co. (USGS 19014) 

by the incomplete imprint of one individual. The imprint is of a sub- 

circular shell, probably a left valve, with 5 or 6 prominent sharp- 

ridged, radiating, diverging costae, rather narrowly V-shaped in cross 

section. This type of sculpture is rare in American Upper Cretaceous 

oysters, the species nearest to it being Ostrea travisana Stephenson 

from the upper part of the Austin chalk in Texas (Stephenson, 1936a, 

p. 4, pl. 2, fig. 5 ; pl. 3, figs. 1-5). The Texas species is much larger than 

the New Jersey species, is elongated downward and to the rear, and 

the ribs are less sharply angulated on the crests. (Stephenson) 

The New Jersey specimen measures approximately: Length 37 mm, 

height 35 mm, convexity 8 mm." 


RARITAN: 1 b 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. ; USNM 108626. 


Ostrea soleniscus Meek 1871 


Ostrea soleniscus, Meek, 1871, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soe. Vol. 11, p. 430. 

Ostrea soleniscus, Stephenson, 1953, U.S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 242, 

p. 74, pl. 16, figs. 14; pl. 17, figs. 7-10,1952=1953. 

Ostrea soleniscus, Stephenson, 1954, p. 30, pl. 6, figs. 21, 22. 

Description.-"Several internal molds and one external mold in the . 

collections from Sayreville are interpreted as representing the species 

Ostrea solenisczis Meek. Of these, one external mold which pertains 

to the right valve of a relatively small individual (pl. 6, fig. 2l), seems 

most significant (USGS 19013). Although incomplete, this imprint 

obviously indicates a flattish, narrowly elongate shell bearing a series 

of somewhat irregular growth ridges or lamellae; in form and surface 

markings this shell was similar to the right valve of one of Meek's 

cotypes from Bear River City, Wyo. The dimensions of this imprint 

are: Length about 20 mm, height ahout 40 mm." (Stephenson) 


RARITAN: 1 

Range outside New Jersey: Texas (Woodbine formation; Western 

Interior). 

Type.-Bear River City, Wyoming; USNM 7780 (cotypes). 

Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton) 1834 


Gryphaea vomer, Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem Cret. Gr. U. S. p. 54, 

pl. 9, fig. 5. 

Gryphaeostrea vomer, Whitfield, 1886, p. 195, pl. 26, figs. 11-12. 

Qryphaeostrea vomer, Weller, 1907, p. 455, pl. 44, figs. 6-11. 

Gryphaeostrea vonzer, Gardner, 1916, p. 579, pl. 25, figs. 1-4. 

Qryphaeostrea vomer, Stephenson, 1936, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. vol. 47, 

p. 375, pl. 1, fig. 12. 

Gryphaeostrea vomer, Stephenson, 1941, p. 118, pl. 18, fig. 5-9. 

Description.-The dimensions of a rather large individual are: 

length, 55 mm.; greatest width, near the hinge-line, 33 mm. Shell nar- 

rowly elongate, subovate or subelliptical in outline, more or less strongly 

arcuate from beak to base, and often more or less twisted laterally. 

Lower or right valve more or less strongly convex, the beak small, 

pointing forward, a little coiled; in typically developed shells both 

the anterior and posterior cardinal regions are produced into compress- 

ed auricular extensions, one or both of which are frequently wanting ; 

the surface of the valve nearly smooth or only slightly marked with 

concentric lamellose lines upon the body of the shell, the auricular ex- 



tensions usually more strongly lamellose. The upper left valve usually 

concave longitudinally, flat or slightly concave transversely, the dorsal 

margin rounded, its cardinal regions not produced into auricular ap- 

pendages, the beak curved anteriorly; surface marked by distinct and 

somewhat regular, elevated concentric ridges whose summits are pro- 

duced as free lamellse. Ligamental areas small or nearly obsolete. 

(Weller). 

Remarks.-This form is widespread throughout the Upper Cret- 

aceous and Eocene of the Atlantic Coastal Plain. In general, the 

Eocene specimens are smaller than those from the Cretaceous. 



MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 38, 42,47,45, 49, 50, 53 

RED BANK: 59 

HORNERSTOWN : Hornerstown, Sewell 

VINCENTOWN: Vincentown, Brownsville 

IIANASQUAN : Clementon 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, Alabama, Missis- 

sippi, Tennessee, Texas, Arkansas, Georges Bank. 

Type.-New Egypt, N. J. ANSP 16167. 

Gryphaea convexa (Say) 1820 


Ostrea convexa, Say, 1820, Amer. Jonr. Sci. 1st ser. vol. 2, p. 42. 

It is impossible to give an adequate description or synonomy of 

this form until the various closely related species have been studied 

in detail. It is an extremely variable form, hut is one of the common- 

est large pelecypods of the Marshalltown, Mount Laurel and Navesink 

formations. It is generally subcircular to elliptical in outline. The left 

valve is usually convex, while the right valve is concave. On many 

specimens a constriction extends from the beak obliquely backward and 

downward forming a wing-like extension of the shell. Beak on the 

left valve is incurved; hinge relatively small, triangular with the inner 

or basal margin longer than the sides. Surface of the left valve smooth 

with the exception of concentric growth lines and rather broad irregular 

growth undulations. Surface of right valve with concentric growth 

lines and radiating straight lines or shallow depressions. 

It is very similar to Gryphaea veskularis (Lamarck) from the 

Cretaceous of Europe and may be identical as has been suggested by 

several authors. 

Gryphaea mutabilis Morton has been described from the Marshall- 

town formation and differs from typical G. conveza by its thinner 

shell, its more depressed lower convex valve and in the absence of the 

conspicuous posterior constriction and auriculation of the lower valve. 



It is possible that this is within the range of variation of G. convexa. 

G. dissimilaris Weller was described from the Hornerstown forma- 

tion, but is probably merely the young or a small race of G. convexa. 

For full descriptions and synonomg see Weller (1907), Gardner 

(1916), Wade (1926) and Stephenson (1923,1941). I 


&TARSHALLTOWN: 28, 32 

MOUNT LAUREL-NAVESINK: 39,40,41,42,46,47,49, 53 

HORNERSTOWN : Near Woodstown ; New Egypt; near 

Mullica Hill 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Gulf Coastal Plain. 

Exogyra ponderosa Roemer 1849 . 


Exogyra ponderosa, Roemer, 1849, Texas p. 395. 

Exogyra costata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 39, (part) p1. 6, figs. 1-2. 

Exogyra ponderosa, Weller, 1907, p. 458, pl. 47, fig. 2. 

Exogyra ponderosa, Gardner, 1916, p. 569. 

Exogyra ponderosa, Stephenson, 1923, p. 165, pl. 45, figs. 6-7; pl. 46. 

Exogyra ponderosa, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 43, pl. 4, 

fig. 1. 

Description.-"Shell of adult, thick, subcircular to subovate in out- 

line. Dimensions of the specimen shown in Plate 46: Length about 

97 mm., estimated height 108 mm., convexity about 47 mm. 

Left or lower valve much larger than right valve, convex attached 

in proximity to beak to an external object, this part of the shell being 

often very much deformed by the scar of attachment. Apical portion 

spirally coiled within the margin of the shell. A more or less clearly 

defined umbonal ridge extends from the beak backward in a curve 

conforming to the spiral twist of shell, to the lower posterior margin, 

usually, however, becoming rounder and less clearly recognizable 

towards the margin. Hinge narrow with ligamental groove deeply im- 

pressed, paralleled on the upper side by a rather faintly developed, 

narrow, shallow groove, both grooves curved to conform to the spiral 

twist of shell; posterior to the larger groove on the inner surface is 

a broad, shallow, pitted or striated depression which is not equally 

distinct on all specimens. Adductor scar broadly oval in outline, situat- 

ed a little above the midheight and a little hack of the midlength of 

the shell. Surface marked by thin, rather prominent, concentric, 

imbricating growth lamellae, with intermediate fine growth lines; 

radiating costae either entirely absent, or small regularly arranged 

costae are present in proximity to the beak, extending back from the 



beakone-half to three-quarters of an inch; in addition to the preceding. 

faint, irregular costae may extend back to varying distances from t h ~ 

heak. 

Upper or right valve flat or slightly concave, operculiform, snh- 

circular or suborate in outline, with a nearly flat, spiral twist, the beak 

being well within the margin; heak depressed; this valve enclosed 

within and slightly depressed below the projecting margin of the lower 

valve. 

Hinge narrow with deeply impressed ligamental groove curved to 

conform to the spiral twist of shell, the upper margin of the groove 

finely crenulated; posterior to the groove a striated protuberance 

occupies a position in apposition to the similarly striated depression 

on the left valve. The surface is marked in proximity to the heak by 

numerous fine, concentric gro'rth lines, and toward the margin by pro- 

jecting, imbricating lamellae, separated by deep, narrow depressions." 

(Stephenson.) 

Remarks.-E. ponrlerosa differs from E. costata in having lamellose 

extensions and in lacking the strongly costate sculpture characteristic 

of the latter species. It is limited to the Marshalltown formation.' 

Range in New dorsey- 

IfARSFIALLTOWN: 28, 31, 32 

Range oats?dc XEZU Jerse!y: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina. 

South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas. 

Texas. 

Type.-New Braunfelq, Texas; University of Bonn 131. 

Exogym ponderosa var. ermticostata Stephenson 

Plate ZOO, Figure 2 

E. ponderosa rar erraticostata Stephenson, 1914, U. S. Qeol. Surv. Prof. 

Paper 61, p. 49-50 pl. 15, fig. 4; pl. 16, figs. 1, 2. 

E. ponderosa var. erraticostata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 171, pl. 47, fig. 1. 

E. ponderosa orraticostata, Stephenson, 1936, Bull. Geol. Soe. Amer. 

vol.47, p. 375, pl. 1, fig. 10. 

Description.-In all its characters except the surface ornamentation 

of the left or lower valve, this variety is essentially like the typical 

Exogyra po+~rlerosa Roemer. The surface of the left valve is characterized 

hy the presence of more or less well defined, sharp to round 

crested radiating costae or plications which differ from the costae on 

Exogyra costata Say in their generally weaker development, and in 

their striking irregularity as regards size, shape, and distribution. In 

proximity to the heak the shell is, as a rule, ornamented with small, 

regularly arranged radiating costae which extend backward over the 

- 

1 For discussion of Ezorru. zones see pnscs :8-20. 


PELECPPODA 117 

shell only one-half to three-quarters of an inch, such as are present 

on some specimens of Exog?lra po~derosa Roemer, but these merge into 

the irregular costae which characterize the variety. The irregular 

costae extend backward 3 to 5 inches from the beak, becoming weaker 

in the direction of the margin; on a considerable part of the surface 

bordering the margin of large individuals the costae are either very 

faint or entirely absent. A11 gradations in surface ornamentation are 

found between the extremes of this variety and typical specimens of 

Ezogyra ponclerosa Roemer. (Stoplienson) 

Remarks.-Associated with E. ponderosa in the Marshdltown 

formation; also known from a single specimen in the Woodbury forma- 

tion from Haddonfield. 


WOODBURY: 24 


Range outside New Jersey: North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, 

Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Qeorges Bank. 

Type.-1 mile west Cotton Gin Port, Monroe County, Mississippi ; 

U.S.N.M. 

Exogyra costata Say 1820 

Plate 20, Figure 1,4 

Ezogyra costata, Say, 1820, Amer. dour, Sci. 1st ser. vol. 2, p. 43. 

Ostrea torosa, Morton, 1834, Amer. Jour. Sei. 1st ser. vol. 24, p. 130, 

P1. 10, fig. 1. 

Ezoyyra, costata, Whitfield, 1886, (partj p. 39, pp. 39-41, pl. 6, figs. 1,2. 

Ezogyra costata, Weller, 1907, p. 456, pl. 47, fig. 1. 

Exogyra costata, Gardner, 1916, p. 564. 

Ezogyra costata, Stephenson, 1914, U.S. Qeol. Surv. Prof. Paper 81, 

p. 50, pl. 16, figs. 3,4; pl. 17, fig. 1, pl. 18, pl. 19, figs. 3,4, pl. 20, fig. 1, 

~xogyra costata, Stephenson, 1!)23, pp. 173-9, pl. 47, figs. 2-5; pl. 48. 

Ezogyra costata, Wade, 1926, p. 56, pl. 

Exogyra costata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 43, pl. 4, flg. 3. 

Description.-"Shell of the adult inequivalve, thick, and massive, 

occasional overgrown specimens heeoming ponderous; subcircular to 

subovate in outline. Dimensions of a medium sized specimen: Length 

90 + mm., height 90 + mm., convexity 55 + mm. 

Left or lower valve much larger than right valve, strongly convex, 

attached in proximity to the beak to an external object; beak usually 

more or less deformed by the sear of attachment. Apical portion of 

shell spirally coiled within the margin. On most specimens there is 

a more or less distinctly marked umbonal ridge extending from the 



beak around to the posterior margin in a curve corresponding to the 

spiral twist of the shell. 

Hinge and other internal shell characters essentially the same as 

in Ezogyra ponderosa Roemer. 

Surface characterized by regularly arranged, prominent, often 

rugged, radiating, entire or bifurcated costae, which in typical normal 

specimens extend in curves conforming to the spiral twist of the shell 

from the beak to the margin; the costae are separated by depressions 

which are usually narrower than tbe costae themselves; in occasional 

non-typical specimens the costae are weakly developed and in large 

overgrown individuals they become faint or disappear entirely toward 

the margin; in cross-section the costae vary in shape from semi-circular 

to squarish; they vary in maximum width on different adult individu- 

als from 2 to 6 mm.; in some specimens the summits of the costae are 

ornamented with slight nodular protuberances. Along t,he umboual 

ridge the costae bifurcate frequently, those in front and below the 

ridge extending with a slight backward curve to the lower margin, and 

those above and to the rear of the ridge extending with a strong up- 

ward curve to the upper posterior margin. 

Upper or right val;e flatly spiral, roughly disc-shaped or operculi- 

form, the outer surface varying from slightly convex to slightly con- 

cave, the valve inclosed within and depressed below the projecting 

margin of the lower valve. Hinge and other internal shell characters 

essentially the same as in Ezogyra ponderosa Roemer. Beak strongly 

depressed. Surface of shell ornamented with numerous concentric 

sharp-edged lamellae, separated by narrow, deep depressions. Radiat- 

ing costae absent or hut faintly developed on most specimens, hut on 

occasional specimens becoming fairly distinct on the upper posterior 

one-third of the shell." (Stephenson.) 

Remarks.--Two adult specimens of 8. costata are in the collections 

of the Academy from Haddonfield, and very recently a number of 

young individuals of this species were found at this locality. This 

marks the first record of the species from the Woodhury formation 

or from the Matawan group. While this record may seem to extend 

the time range of the Exogyra costata group, its rareness in the Wood- 

bury formation will not appreciably affect the value of the species 

as an index of the Monmouth group as has been stated by Stephens011 

and many other authors. 

DGtribution in New Jersey- 

WOODBURY: 24a 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37,38,39,40,41,43,49,50,53. 

RED BANK: 59 

TINTON: 62 

Distribution outside New Jersey : Delaware, Maryland, North Caro- 



lina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, 'l'eans, 

Mexico. 

Type.-Mullica Rill: N. J. ; lost. 

Exogyra costata var. spinifera Stephenson 1941 


Exogyva costata Stephenson, 1914, (in part) U.S. (3eol. Surv. Prof. 

Paper 81, pl. 17, fig. 2, pl. 19, figs. 1-2. 

Exogura eostata Tar, spinosa, Stephenson, 1923, p. 179, pl. 49, figs. 1-6, 

pl. 50, figs. 1, 2. 

Exogyra costata spinifera, Stephenson, 1941, p. 125, pl. 21, fig. 1. 

Description.-"The left valve of this variety differs from the more 

typical representatives of the species in the prominent development of 

concentric, imbricating growth lamellae which along the crests of the 

costae project outward in spine-like folds with the convex side of the 

folds upward. The folds vary in prominence, hut reach maximum extensions 

of 6 or 8 mm. from the crests of the ridges; they are easily 

broken, so that even the best specimens are imperfect. 

The right valves vary considerably in form and sculpture on different 

individuals; they range from flat or concave to rather strongly 

convex and massive; some lack costae and projecting folds, while others 

have them rather strongly developed on the postero-dorsal portion of 

, the surface. On some specimens the concentric lamellae on the ventral 

and anterior portions of the sarface are distinctly wavy or fluted. 

The variety appears to he somewhat smaller on the average than 

typical adults of the species, but occasional specimens become moderately 

large." (Stephenson) 

Remarks.-More characteristic of North Carolina than New Jersey. 

According to Stephenson, one specimen from Burlington County, New 

Jcrsey is a fairly good example of this variety. The variety has also been 

found at Cream Ridge, N. J. 

Since the name spinosa originally proposed for this variety was 

I 

I 

I 

preoccupied, Stephenson (1941) proposed the new name spinifera. 

. - - 

Distrz%ution im New Jersey: 

NAVESINE : 57 

Distribution outside New Jersey: North Carolina, South Carolina. 

Mississippi, Texas. 

Type.-Robinsons Landing, N. C. USNM 31231. 

Exogyra cancellab Stephenson 1914 



120 CRETACEOTJS FOSSILS 

Ezogyra costata var. cancellata, Gardner, 1916, p. 566, pl. 27, fig. 3. 

Esogyra cancellata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 182, pl. 50, figs. 5-6; pl. 51. 

figs. 1-2. 

Ezogyra cancellata, Wade, 1926, p. 58, pl. 16, figs. 1-3. 

Fgyra cancellata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 43, pl. 4, 

fig. 2. 

Doscription.-Shell of adult moderately thick, su~hcircular to 

subovate in outline. Approximate dimensions of an average specimen : 

Length 80 mm., height 83 mm., convesity 37 mm. ; length of a rather 

large specimen 125 mm. 

Left or lower valve much larger than right valve, attached in 

proximity of beak to an external object, the beak usually somewhat 

deformed by the scar of attachment; general form, hinge characters. 

and other internal shell characters essentially the same as in Ezog?/m 

ponderosa Roemer. On most specimens a more or less distinct shallow 

depressed area extends from the beak to the posterior margin in a 

curve corresponding to the spiral twist of the shell, broadening distally. 

Surface of left valve ornamented with more or less distinct, lorn, hi- 

furcating, nodular costae, the nodes produced by concentric depressions 

regularly arranged in such a manner a8 to give to the surface of thc 

shell a checkered or cancellated appearance; the nodes on the costae 

are in some cases more prominently connected concentrically than in 

the direction of the radiating costae, thus producing distinct con- 

centric ridges. In non-typical specimens the costae are weakly develop- 

ed and there is a corresponding strong development of concentric 

growth lamellae, but on such specimens the characteristic cancellated 

markings are generally fairly well developed in proximity to the beak. 

On adult specimens the costae, apparently in all cases, become faint 

and disappear distally, concentric imbricating lamellae being only 

ornamentation. On the portion of the shell corresponding to the nm- 

bonal ridge, the radiating costae bifurcate frequently, those in front 

extending downward in the direction of the lower margin of the shell 

and those behind extending in a rather sharp upward curve to the upper 

posterior margin of the shell. 

Upper or right valve opercnliform, roughly ovate in outline and 

overlapped by the projecting margin of the lower valve; usually this 

valve is distinctly concave. Hinge and other internal characters essenti- 

ally as in Ezogyra pontlerosa Roemer. Beak depressed, with a nearly 

flat spiral twist or coil. Surface nearly smooth on the inner concave 

portion, becoming ornamented toward the outer margin with numerous 

concentrically arranged sharp-edged lan~ellae, separated by deep, 

narrow depressions. Costae either absent or but very faintly developed 

towards the margin." (Stephenson.) 

Ren~arks.-This species has hitherto been reported from New Jersey 

only from the Mount Laurel formation. However, recently a specimen 


(Plate 21, Figure 2) was obtained in the Navesink formation near 

Arneytown, N. .T. Also, Spangler and Peterson (1950) report it from 

the Xavesink. In Delaware the Mount Laurel and Navesink are re- 

garded as a unit and E. cancellafa is found throughout the formation. 


MOUNT LAUREL : 45,48 

NAVESINIC: Near Arneytown. 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina. 

Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, Mexico. 

Type.-Mississippi and Tennessee (cotypes) USNM; lectotyge, 

1 mile east Cedar Bluff, blississippi (USA's1 31235). 

Exogyra woolmani Richar(1s 1947 

Ezogyra \\'aolinan, 1899, Ann. Rept. Xeu. Jersey State Geol. for 1899, 

p. 98. 

Ezogura woolma.ni, ltichards, 1947, Jour. Paleont. Vol. 21, p. 14, pl. 35, 

figs. 7, 8. 

This species was obtained by Lewis Woolman from a well at Nor- 

folk, Virginia, but was not described until 1947 by Richards. It is 

closely related to E. colznnbolla Meek from the Eagle Ford formation 

of Texas, hut is smaller and does not show radiating striae. 

E. woolnln?bi is apparently restricted to the Raritan-Tuscalooso 

formations and has been found in wells in Virginia, North and Soutll 

Carolina and Florida ( t ). 

A cast of a small Exogyra, possibly E. woolmani, was found at 

Sayrerille, N. J. (l'late 41, Figure 13) and recently a number of well 

preserved specimens have been found in a core in the Raritan forma- 

tion at the depth of 1648 feet near liarrisville, Burlington County. 

New Jersey.' 

Exogym 

A poorly preserved cast of an Ezogyra was found at the Graham 

Brick Yard in Maple Shade, N. J. (locality 16). This is the first record 

of this genus from the Merchantville formation. The specimen mea- 

sures 120 mm. by 123 mm. 

Family Trigoniidae 

Trigonia mortoni Whitfield 1886 


Trigonia mortoni Whitfield, 1886, p. 112, PI. 14, figs. 5,6. 

A lull report on the fossils from this and other cores ls in ~repnration. 



'Prigoqda fhoracica, Weller, 1907, p. 460, pl. 48, figs. 14. Not of Morton 

1834. 

Trigonia ntortoni, Groot, Organist and ltichards, 1954, p. 43. 

Descriptio?z.-Shell large, the dimensions of an average-sized in- 

- dividual being: length, 48 mm.; height, 42 mm.; convexity, 11 mm. 

Ovate subtrigonal in outline, the valves moderately convex in front, 

becoming compressed posteriorly; the beaks nearly anterior, slightly 

recurved. Anterior margin broadly rounded, passing into the ventral 

margin; ventral margin broadly rounded, often becoming a little 

straightened as it approaches the posterior extremity of the shell; 

posterior margin obliquely subtruneate above; dorsal margin gently 

concave from the beak to the posterior hinge extremity. Surface of the 

valve divided into two portions by an angular, curved furrow, passing 

backward from just behind the beak sub-parallel with the dorsal 

margin, to a point in the posterior margin of the shell a short distance 

below the posterior hinge extremity; the lower portion of the valve 

constitutes much the greater part and is marked by about fifteen ribs, 

about ten of which are very strong, subangular, more or less nodose, 

with broad concave interspaces, and occupying the greater portion of 

the shell, the more anterior of these ribs are shorter and curve strongly 

forward, the more posterior ones curve slightly downward; between 

these strong ribs and the curved divisional furrow is a subtriangular 

area occupied by much smaller somewhat nodose furrows, which 

usually have a more or less distinct upward curvature as they approaeli 

the posterior border. The upper portion of the valves is divided into 

two regions, being nearly in the plane of the valve below and abruptly 

inflected above to the hinge-line, to form a long and rather broad 

escutcheon, this region is marked with 12 or 14 subangular ribs which 

originate along the divisional furrow, curving backward and upward 

across tlie escutcheon to the hinge-line. The entire surface is also marked 

by more or less irregular concentric lines of growth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Whitfield described this species from internal casts 

from the Marshalltown formation. Weller figured somewhat better 

individuals and placed thcm all in T. thoraciea. However, as pointed 

out by Stephenson (1941 p. 127), the New Jersey specimens are too 

closely ribbed to be so classified. Therefore it seems desirable to rein- 

troduce Whitfield's name T. mortoni. 


WOODBURY: 22 


WENONAH : 34 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE: 41, 43 

Range oz~tside New Jersey: Delaware 

Type.-New Jersey (Morton) ANSP 19346 


PELECWODA 123 

Trigonia eufaulensis Gabb 1860 

Plate 21,~igure 7 ; Plate 22, Figure 1 

l'rigonia ez~fa.u/ensis Gal~h, 1860, Jour. Aead. Nat. Sei. l'hila. 2nd ser. 

vol. 4, p. 396, p1. 68, fig. 32. 

Trigonia ewfaulensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 113, pl. 14, figs. 1-4. 

Trigonia eufaulensis, Weller, 1907, p. 462, pl. 48, figs. 5-10. 

Trigonia eufaz~lensis, Gardner, 1916, p. 582, pl. 34, figs. 1-2. 

Trigonia eufaulensis, Stephenson, 1923, p. 189, pl. 54, figs. 1-6. 

Trigonia eufaulensis, Wade, 1926, p. 61, pl. 20, figs. 3-4. 

I'rigo?~.ia eufaule~~sis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44. 


being: length, 21 mm. ; height 15 mm.; convexity, 4 mm. The largest 

specimen observed is under 30 mm. in length. Ovate subtrigonal in 

outline, somewhat alate posteriorly, moderately convex in front, compressed 

behind. Beaks almost anterior, slightly recnrved. Anterior 

and antero-basal margin broadly rounded, postero-basal margin nearly 

straight, sloping upward to\~al.ds the posterior hinge extremity, posterior 

cstremity rounding s11:lrply into the dorsal margin; dorsal margin 

nearly straight behind, becoming more strongly concave as it approaches 

the beak. Surface of the valves divided into two portions bya 

ridge passing with a concave curve from the posterior side of the beak 

to the posterior margin of the shell just below the posterior extremity 

of the hinge-line. The lower portion of the valve is marked by 12 or 14 

strong, angular, non-nodose ridges, narrower than the interspaces, 

the more anterior ones of mhieh curve strongly forward in passing from 

the bounding ridge to the shell margin, the more posterior ones becoming 

straighter, in some cases having a slightly sigmoidal curve. 

The upper portion of the shell is inflected above the bounding ridge 

for about one-half the distance to the hinge-margin, above which it is 

again deflected into nearly a plane with the valve, the ribs of the lower 

portion of the shell are continued across the upper portion, being 

abruptly bent backmards in crossing the bounding ridge, the more 

posterior ones being more strongly bent than those in front. Besides 

the ribs, the shell is'marked by inconspicuous lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species usually occurs in the New Jersey formations 

in the form of more or less indefinite internal easts, but occasionally 

in certain hard nodules good impressions of the exterior are preserved, 

from which easts may be taken to show the external charaeters. It has 

been from such casts that the above description has been made. Whitfield's 

material from which he illustrated the species was much more 

incomplete than tbat now available, some of his figures are more or less 

restored, and none of them represent the characters of the species as 

ordinarily preserved in the New Jersey faunas. The internal casts do 

not preserve the characters of the upper portion of the shell whieh arc 



really the most essential specific features, but the presence of the keel- 

like extension of the shell along the hinge-line, rather than a sharply 

inflected border to form a broad escutcheon, can usually be recognized. 

(IVeller ) 



WOODBURY: 19,23,24 




Tgpe.-Eufaula, Alabama; ANSP 19576. 

Trigonia cerulia Whitfield 1686 


Trigonia cerulia Whitfield, 1886, p. 114, pl. 14, fig. 7. 

Trigonk cerzllba, Weller, 1907, p. 464, pl. 48, fig. 13. 

Trigonia cerulia, Gardner, 1916, p. 584. 

Description.-Shell small, the dimensions of an average-sized left 

valve being: length, 30 mm. ; height, 24.5 mm. ; convexity, 9 mm. Subovate 

in outline, the beaks nearly anterior, obtuse, scarcely recurved. 

Anterior and ventral margins together forming nearly a semicircle. 

posterior margin rather sharply rounded above into the dorsal margin ; 

dorsal margin gently concave from the beak to the posterior extremity 

of the hinge-line. Surface of the valve divided into two portions by an 

obscure ridge, subparallel with the dorsal margin, passing from the 

posterior side of the beak, with a gently concave curvature to the posterior 

margin a short distance below the posterior extremity of th~: 

hinge-line. The lower portion of the shell, which comprises the greater 

part o fthe surface, is covered with sharply angular and faintly crenulate 

ribs which curve strongly forward in front, the more posterior 

ones passing in a nearly straight line from the bounding ridge abovc 

to the basal margin, the interspaces between these ribs are broad in 

front becoming regularly narrower towards the posterior portion of 

the shell. The upper portion of the surface is divided longitudinall~ 

by a shallow groove along the lower side of which the ribs of the lower 

portion of the shell originate; they pass obliquely backward from their 

point of origin, bending more or less abruptly domriward as they cross 

the hounding ridge; above the longitudinal furro~v the surface is continuous 

for a short distance with the general surface of the valve and 

is then abruptly inflected to the hinge-line to form a rather broad 

escutcheon; from the upper margin of the longitudinal furrow a 

series of about 10 obscure ribs originates, which are directed obliquely 

backwards and continue in that direction to the margin of the inflected 

portion of the shell when they bend abruptly forward, becoming much 


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I 

PELECYPODA 

stronger and continuing to the hinge-line which they meet in nearly 

right angles. Besides the ribs the surface of the shell is covered with 

obscure concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-Whitfield's illustration and description of this species 

are misleading. The type specimen is very imperfect and has the 

surface much injured, the illustration being greatly restored. Accord- 

ing to the original description there is no differentiation of the upper 

portion of the shell, but a little further development of the type speci- 

men has sho1r.n the surface features to be as has been described above. 

The species is a common one in its type locality at Beers Hill cut, south 

of Iceyport, and the recent collections of the Survey contain many speci- 

mens which show the essential features of the shell far better than the 

type. (Weller) 


TINTON: 62, Freehold 

Range outside Xew Jersey: Maryland. 

17ype.-Beers Hill, N. J.; NJSM 7508. 

Trigonia kummeli Weller 1907 

I Plate 21;Figure 6 

Trigonia kummeli Weller, 1907, p. 466, pl. 48, figs. 11-12. 


being : length about 26 mm. ; height, 20 mm. ; convexity, 6 mm. Ovate- 

subtrigonal in outline, moderately convex in front, the greatest convex- 

ity heing near the anterior margin, compressed posteriorly. Beaks 

rather sharp, nearly anterior, slightly recurved. Anterior and antero- 

basal margin describing nearly a semicircle; postero-basal margin 

straighter and sloping upward towards the posterior hinge extremity: 

dorsal margin gently concave. Surface of the valves divided into two 

regions by a ridge, or more properly by a row of nodes passing in a 

concave line from the posterior side of the beak to the posterior margin 

a little below the hinge extremity. The lower portion of the valve 

marked by 14 or 15 sharply angular, prominent, narrow, nodose rihs. 

the most anterior ones of which curve strongly forward in passing the 

dorsal extremity to the shell margin; the first two or three rihs on the 

beak are crowded close together, the interspaces gradually becoming 

broader to about the sixth rib, beyond which the interspaces are about 

equal in width, being much wider than the ribs themselves. The upper 

surface of the valve continues in the general slope of the valve from 

the row of hounding nodes to over half the distance to the hinge-line. 

the surface is then sharply inflected for a short distance and then 

again deflected, when it continues to the hinge margin in nearly the 

plane of the valve, this deflected portion of the two valves forming e 

keel-like projection of the shell along the hinge-line back of the beaks. 



The ribs of the lower portion of the shell are bent abruptly forward as 

they cross the bounding line between the two portions of the valve; 

they continue in that direction to about the middle of the broad, inferior 

part of the upper portion, when they are bent abruptly backward 

to the lower margin of the inflected portion, where they are again 

bent forward to the hinge margin; towards the posterior extremity of 

the shell the ribs become more or less indistinct. In addion to the ribs 

the shell is marked by concentric lines of growth, which are indistinct 

except in front near the margin. 

Remarks.-This species resembles T. eufaulensis in general form 

and proportions, and in the keel-like extension of the shell along the 

hinge-line back of the beak. From the internal casts alone the two 

species can hardly be distinguished if at all, but the external characters 

of the shell arc quite different. Thc ribs of the shell of T. kiimmeli are 

narrower, sharper and nodose, and the interspaces between the ribs 

continue to the posterior portion of the shell with about the same width, 

while in T. eufa%rlensis the interspaces become regularly narrower posteriorly. 

The zig-zag direction of the ribs across the upper portion of 

the shell is also different from T. ezifairlensis, in which species they pass 

directly across this portion of the shell from the bounding ridge belolr. 

to the hinge-line. (\\rcllcr) 


RED BANK : 59,60 

Type.-Plastocotgpe-Chicago ; 18688. 

Family Pectinidae 

Pecten tenuitestus Gabb 1861 


Pecten tenz~itesta, Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. p. 327. 

Pecten planicostatus, Whitfield, 1886, p. 48, pl. 8, figs. 10-11. 

Pecten tenzritestus, TVeller, 1907, p. 467, pl. 50, fig. 9. 

Pecte?~ qtci?~qzinaria, Wade, 1926, p. 65 (part). 

Not Pecten ten?ritestzrs, \\'hitfield, 1686, p. 47 = P. ruhitfieldi Weller 

Description.-Left valve depressed convex or nearly flat, equilateral, 

and aside from the auriculations nearly subcircular in outline. 

The dimensions of an imperfect impression of a left valve are: height, 

about 40 mm.; width, 41.5 mm.; length of hinge-line, about 22 mm. 

Auriculations of moderate size, subequal, but slightly depressed below 

the general surface. Surface marked by about thirty, low, rounded ribs, 

which are much narrower than the flattened interspaces, the stronger 

ribs continue to the beak and never bifurcate, the smaller ones being 

added by intercalation, the auriculatio~ls are entirely free from radiating 

ribs; besides the radiating ribs the entire surface is marked by 



exceedingly fine, regular, concentric striae. The shell substance is 

apparently very thin. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Whitfield is in error in his identification of Pecten ten- 

uitestus Gahb, as has been shown by a study of the type specimens in 

the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, the species being 

described as a new form by him under the name P. planicostatus. The 

shells which Whitfield has referred to P. tenuitestus are quite a distinct 

form, and were described by IVeller as P. wkitfieldi. The true P. ten- 

uitestus differs from P. whitfieldi in its more nearly subcircular out- 

line, the less compressed auriculations, the non-nodose radiating ribs, 

and in the character of the fine concentric striae. 

Wade plaeed P. tenuitestus in the synonomy of P. quinquenarius 

Conrad, regarding the former merely as the left valve of the latter. 

However, additional specimelu will he needed before this can be 

shown with certainty. 


MOUNT LAUREL-NAVESINK. 42,43,47 

2'ype.-Burlington County, X. J. ; ANSP 18759. 

Pecten whitfieldi Weller 1907 


Pecten tenuitestus, Whitfield, 1886, p. 47, pl. 7, figs. 5-6. Not of Gahb 

1861. 

Pecten wl~itfieldi, Weller, 1907, p. 468, pl. 50, fig. 14. 

Pecten whitfieldi, Gardner, 1916, p. 589. 

Pecten whitfieldi, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44, pl. 4, fig. 5. 

Description.-Shell, exclusive of the auriculations, broadly ovate 

in outline, higher than wide, the dimensions of a left valve being: height, 

40 mm. ; width, 35 mm. ; convexity, 5 mm.; length of hinge-line about 

16 mm. Left valve depressed convex, deepest above the middle, the 

beak pointed, auriculations of moderate size, the anterior one larger 

than the posterior. Surface marked by low, rounded, nodose, more or 

less unequal, radiating ribs, which increase by intercalation, 30 or 

more are present upon the body of the shell where they are narrower 

than the interspaces, the ribs upon the auriculations are narrower, 

closer together, and more nodose than upon the body of the shell, 

though in some examples, especially the larger ones, they are incon- 

spicuous. The surface is also marked by more or less irregular, con- 

centric lines of growth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species was discussed under P. tenuitestus Qabb. It 

differs from P. tenuitestus by being proportionally higher, narrower, 

and more convex, with nodose and proportionally broader radiating 



ribs. It has narrower interspaces and the concentric markings are 

coarser and less regular. 


blT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 41, 42,47, 49 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland. 

Type.-Holmdel, N. J. NJSM 8034. 

Pecten cliffwoodensis Weller 1907 


Pecten cliffwoodensis Weller, 1907, p. 469, pl. 50, figs. 7-8. 

YPecten cliffwoodensis, Gardner, 1916, p. 592. 

Pecten cliffwoodensis, Stephenson, 1923, p. 196, pl. 55, figs. 1-5. 

Description.-The dimensions of an average specimen, a left valve, 

are: height, 30 mm.; width, 27.5 mm.; convexity, 4 mm.; length of 

hinge-line, 14 mm. The body of the shell broadly subovate in outline, 

the beaks situated a little back of the middle of the hinge-line, the 

auriculations moderately large and sharply ditierentiated, the anterior 

ones somewhat larger tban the posterior, the cardinal slopes diverging 

from the beak at an angle of 90" or a little more, nearly straight or 

slightly concave, terminating at the sides of the shell above the middle 

of its height. The valves subequally depressed convex, the right valve 

if anything slightly flatter than the left, with a moderately deep byssal 

sinus. Surface of both valves nearly smooth, marked only by h e con- 

centric lines of growth which continue across the auriculations, and on 

the anterior ear of the right valve become stronger than elsewhere on 

the shell. (Weller) 

Remarks.-One imperfect specimen which seem to be a member of 

this species, had a height when complete of about 50 mm., but the 

dimensions given above are those of a specimen of about average size. 

Some of the smaller individuals do not exceed 12 mm. in height. With 

the growth of the shell the proportionate width seems to increase. This 

species is unlike any of the other Pectens in these New Jersey faunas, 

but in general form and size the uheb most closely resemble some in- 

dividuals of Pecten bellisculptus Con.; the two species oan always be 

distinguished, however, by their surface markings. (Weller) 

Stephenson noted that obscure radiating ribs were present on the 

dorsal slopes and on the ears of the type specimen as well as on some 

of the specimens subsequently collected from North Carolina. 


MBGOTHY: 5 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, 

Alabama. 

Type.-Cliffwood Point, N. J. NJSM 7785. 



Pecten burlingtonensis Gabb 1860 


Pecten btcr'imgtononsis, Gabh, 1860, Jonr. Ac.ar1. Hat,. Sci. Phil. 2nd ser. 

vol. 4, p. 304, pl. 48, fig. 25. 

Camptonectes burlingtonensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 53, (part) pl. 8, 

figs. 7 9-8 (not 3-6, 9 = P. argillensis, Conrad). 

Pecten perlamellosus, Whitfield, 1886, p. 50, p1. 7, fig. 7. 

Pecten bnrlingtonensis, Weller, 1907, p. 470, pl. 49, figs. 5-9. 

Pecten burlingtonensis, Wade, 1926, p. 63, pl. 20, figs. 5, 6, 10, 11. 

Description-Shell, in large individuals, attaining a height of 57 mm., 

and a width of 62 mm. ; the hinge-line straight, one-half or a little less 

than one-half the width of the shell, with a central triangular cartilage 

pit; the body of the shell broadly subovate in outline, the auriculations 

moderately large and nearly equal in size ; the eardinal slopes a little 

concave, diverging from the beak at an angle of 90' or more, the 

shoulders of the valves prominent and above the middle of the height. 

of the shell. Left valve depressed convex with the auriculations sharply 

different,iated. Right valve nearly flat, with a moderately deep byssal 

sinus. Surface of the valves marked by concentric bands which are 

continuous across the aurieulations, and by exceedingly fine, impressed. 

radiating striae which are continuous upon the auriculations and the 

nmbo, where they are aboiit equal in width with the interspaces, hiit 

on the outer portion of the shell they become more or less discontinuous. . 

the inner portion of the concentric bands often being nearly smooth. 

while on the outer portion they are completely striate, but with the 

interspaces between t,he striae broader t,hat the striae themselves. 

(Weller) 


MERCHANTVILLE: 8, 10, 13, 14, 15 


WENONAH : 34 

Rnnge ontsicle New Jersey: Tennessee. 

Type.-Burlington County, N. J.; ANSP 18756 

Haddonfield, N. J. ; ANSP 18758 (TYPE of perlamellosa). 

Pecten bellisculptur (Conrad) 1869 


Camptonectes belliscnlptns Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Couch., vol. 5, 

p. 99, pl. 9, fig. 11. . 

Can~pfonectes bnrlingtonensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 53, pl. 8, figs. 3-6, 9 

(not 7-8). 



Pecten argillemis Weller, 1907, p. 472, pl. 49, figs. 14. Not of Conrad 

1.860. 

Pecten argillonsis Gardner, 1916, p. 588, pl. 34, figs. 3-5. Not of Conrad 

Pecten bellisctibptzis Stephenson, 1923, p. 193, pl. 54, figs. 10.11. 

Description.-Shell, in large individuals, attaining a height of 35 

mm. to 40 mm., ;lnd a ~\.idtli of 30 mm. to 36 mm., the height usually 

considerably greater than the width, but the two dimensions nearly 

equal in some individuals; hinge-line st.raight, one-half or less than one- 

half the width of'the shell, the bcaks situated back of the middle point 

of the hinge; the body of the shell subovate in outline, the auriculations 

sharply differentiated, unequal, the anterior ones being much broader 

than the posterior; cardinal slopes usually a little concave, diverging 

from the beaks at an angle of 90" or less. Right valve depressed convex 

with a rather deep byssal sinus in front; left valve more strongly 

convex. Surface of both valres marked by fine, even radiating ribs with 

much narrower interspaces; by reason of their frequent bifurcation 

the rills maintain essentially the same size throughout and at the sides 

of thc valves they curve strongly upward in the upper portion, crossing 

the cardinal slopes and continuing across the auriculations. Besides 

the radiating ribs the shells are marked by rather close, concentric 

raised lines which project slightly as they cross the radiating ribs, and 

which towards the front of the shell sometimes form fine spines. 

(IVeller) 

Remarks.-Both Weller and Gardner regarded this as synonymous 

with P. argillcnsis Conrad. However, as pointed out by Stephenson, 

the radiating ribs of the New Jersey specimens are much finer and more 

closely spaced. Also the average size of P. be1lisculptu.s is probably 

greater than that of P. argillensis. 

Range in. New Jersey- 

MERCHANTVITJLE: 8, 10, 15, 16 

TVOODBURY: 18,24 

lIAR,SHALLTOWN: 28 

WENOhTAH : 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE: 43, 47 

Range o~itsido New Jerse~: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina. 

Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J.; ANSP 18755. 

Pecten conradi (Whitfield) 1886 


Amusinm conradi Whitfield, 1886, p. 52, pl. 7, figs. 8-10. 

Pecten conmdi, TVeller, 1907, p. 474, pl. 50, figs. 1-4. 

Pecten conradi, Gardner, 1916, p. 593. 



Descriptwn.l! Shell small, seldom exceeding half an inch in height ; 

.erect-ovate, becoming more elongate proportionally with increased 

growth. Valves slightly convex. Hinge short, from half to two-thirds 

as long as the width of the body of the shell, strongly and distinctly 

auriculated, Beaks of the valves small and pointed, and the cardina 

slopes long, straight or slightly concave, extending to near the poi~lt 

:,. 

. of'greatest . ., width of the body of the shell.','Left valve smooth or but 

. . 

fiintly marked by 'fine concentric lines, and a few (five or six) very 

faint raaii.' Ears smaller than in the opposite valve, both sloping 

toward the beak on the outer margin. Right valve marked with crowded 

:3 ... 

concenfric folds or elevated lines; also by five or six radiating lines ;'not 

always present. On most specimens there are distinctly rounded con- 

centric foldsor varices, but on some they are thin, sharp lines; always 

more crowded and usually finer toward the front, in adult specimens. 

Ears very 'distinct; that of the posterior side sloping toward the beak 

and the anterior one rounded at the extremity and deeply notched." 

(Whitfield.) ,~ , . . 

'~emarks.-This kpecies is not uncommon in both the Merchantville 

and \Voodbury formations. It is especially abundant in the Woodbury 

at Lorillard, but, like so many of the species from that locality, it 

grows to a much larger size than elsewhere; the average size of the 

individuals from there is not far from 15 mm. in height, while the 

largest ones are 17 mm. or more. The types of the species illustrited 

by Whitfield are 9 and 10 mm. in height, and he states that it scld_om 

'exceeds "half an inch in height" (12.5 ram.) ; the specimens from other 

localities than Lorillard agree with this statement. As noted by Whit- 

field, the species is a close ally of Pecten simplicum Con., and the New 

Jersey specimens have frequently been identified with that species. 

It differs especially from that species, however, in the conspicuous con- 

centric markings which are always present upon the left valve at least. 

The larger specimens of the species from Lorillard somewhat resemble 

the young of Pecten burlingtonensis Gabb, but the concentric bands are 

narrower and do not continue across the auriculations as in that species. 

(Wellcr) 


MERCHANTVILLE: 8, 10, 15, 17 

WOODBURY: 18, 20, 24 

NAVESINK : 40, 53 

Range otrtside New Jersey: Maryland. 


Pecten quinquenarius Conrad 1853 


Pecten qrinquenariu Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci, Phil., 2nd 

ser., vol. 2, p. 275, pl. 24, fig. 10. 



Pecten quinquenarius, Whitfield, 1886, p. 47, pl. 7, figs. 13-16. 

Peoten quinquenaria, Weller, 1907, p. 476, pl. 50, figs. 10-12 (not fig. 

13 = P. mississippiensis Conrad). 

Pecten quinquenarius, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44. 

Descriptwn.-"Shell of medium size, slightly oval transversely; 

in outline a little wider than high. Valvea plano-convex in profile when 

united. Hinge line much shorter than the width of the shell below. 

Ears large, slightly unequal; that of the flat valve (right) somewhat 

sinuate on the anterior side. Cardinal slope of the valves somewhat con- 

cave between the beaks and the lateral margins of the body of the shell. 

Surface of the valves marked by strong, wide, rounded, radiating ribs, 

about five on the flat valve and six on the convex valve. On the convex 

valve as shown upon the impression left in the h e blue marl, there 

have been fine, even, and closely arranged concentric lines crossing the 

folds and passing up over the auriculations ; in fact, covering the entire 

surface of the valve. The opposite flat valve has not been marked by 

concentric lines, as was the convex valve, the surface of the cast, both 

inside and outside impressions, being apparently smooth. No remains 

of radiating lines on the folds can be seen." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species formerly occured in abundance in the 

Wenonah sand just beneath the base of the Navesink marl at a locality 

near Marlboro. Whitfield reports the species from the base of the 

Navesink. 

P. quinquenarius is based upon an internal mold, and, according 

to Stephenson (1941, p. 139) is specifically indeterminable, but related 

to P. mississippiensis Conrad. 


WENONAH: 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 38 

' Range outside New Jersey: Delaware. 

Type.-Delaware & Chesapeake Canal; ANSP 16805. 

Pecten panus (Whitfield) 1886 


Camtonectes parvus, Whitfield, 1886, p. 55, pl. 8, figs. 1-2. 

Pecten pawus, Weller, 1907, p. 477, pl. 50, figs. 5-6. 

Descriptwn.-"Shell quite small, the only specimen observed mea- 

suring only about three-tenths of an inch in height. Outline subcircular 

and (the left valve) convex, moderately elevated on the umbo and 

somewhat regularly declining in convexit,y, toward the front; anterior 

auriculation proportionally large and vertically striated with lamellose 

striae parallel to the anterior margin. Surface of the shell polished and 

marked with numerous interrupted impressed striae, the spaces be- 


PELECYPODA 

tween the striae being flattened and crossed by very faint lines of 

growth." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Whitfield reports having seen but a single specimen of 

this small species, and no further examples have come to light in the 

more recent collections. The type is probably from some portion of the 

Navesink marl, although the horizon cannot be determined with any 

great degree of certainty. 


NAVESINK : 43 

Type.-Freehold, N. J. NJSM 7548. 

Pecten venustus Morton 1833 

Plate 23, Figures 1, 2, 4, 13 

Pecten wenustus Morton, 1833, Am. Jonr. Sci., 1st ser. vol. 23, p. 293, 

pl. 5, fig. 7. 

Pecten venustus, Whitfield, 1886, p. 45, pl. 7, figs. 1-2. 

Pecten wenustus, Weller, 1907, p. 478, pl. 51, figs. 1-5. 

Pecten venustus, Stephenson, 1923, p. 204, pl. 57, figs. 1-5. 

Pecten venustus, Stephenson, 1941, p. 130, pl. 22, figs. 3-6. 

Description.--"Shell quite small, seldom attaining a height of more 

than five-eighths of an inch, and not commonly of more than half an 

inch. Form nearly circular below the ears and a little straightenedon 

the cardinal slopes. Valves convex, slightly inequivalve and erect, or 

not perceptibly inequilateral. Cardinal line about half as long as the 

greatest width of the valves which is a very trifle less than the height. 

Auriculations very unequal, distinctly separated from the body of the 

shell. The posterior one is quite small and unlike in each valve; 

anterior large, ribbed on each valve, and provided with a moderately 

distinct notch below in the right one. Right valve most convex, marked 

by 17 to 19 elevated radiating ribs, which are somewhat flattened on 

the top and are marked by fine transverse strie. Interspaces narrow 

and deep. Many of the ribs of this valve become duplicate below the 

middle of the valve. Left valve depressed, convex, with narrow, sharp- 

ly-elevated ribs, which are separated,by much wider interspacks, and' 

are marked by comparatively distant elevated rugae. Many of the 

wider interspaces have a thinner and smaller rib along their middle 

below the center of the valve, corresponding to the duplicated ribs of 

the opposite valve. 

On the interior of the valves the ribs are distinctly marked, but 

much more strongly so along the margin of the shell. Cardinal line 

marked by a single ridge on each side of the center nearly parallel 

to the hinge-line in the left valve, with corresponding grooves in the 

right. Ligamental pit well marked." (Whitfield.) 



Remarks.-This is one of the smaller species of Pecten from the. 

Cret,aceous of New Jersey. Stephenson has questioned the identification 

of the Marshalltown specimens. 



MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 40,41,42, 43,46, 47, 53 

RED BANK : 59 

TINTON: 61, 63 

Range outside Few Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas (3). 

Type.-near Arnrytown, N. J.; ANSP 16165. 

Pecten cmticulus Morton 1833 

Plate 24, Figure I 

Pecten craticula Morton, 1833, Am. Jonr. Sci. 1st ser., vol. 23, p. 293. 

Pecten craficuli~s Whitfield, 1886, p. 49, pl. 7, figs. 17-18, 

Pecten cratictrlns Weller, 1907, p. 478, pl. 50, figs. 15-16. 

Descriplwn-"Shell suborbicular, unequal, with ahout ten large, 

elevated, convex, longitudinally sulcated ribs, and a much smaller one 

interposed between each pair." (Morton). 

Remarks.-This species was described by Morton from a fragment 

of a shell said to have been collected by Conrad at Arneytown, New 

Jersey. The type specimen was illustrated by Whitfield, but the species 

has not been met with in any recent oollections. If the recorded locality 

of the species is correct it probably came from the Navesink marl. 

Range in Xew Jersey- 

NAVESINK: Near Arneytown 

Type.-near Arneytown, N. J. ; ANSP 18804. 

Pecten sirnplicius Conrad 1860 


Pecten simplicius Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser.. 

vol. 4, p. 283, pl. 46, fig. 44. 

Amusium simplicum, Whitfield, 1886, p. 51, pl. 7, figs. 11-12. 

Pecten simplieins, 1907, p. 480, pl. 51, fig. 6. 

Pecten simplicius, Gardner, 1916, p. 595, pl. 34, figs. 8-9. 

Pecten simplkh~s, Stephenson, 1923, p. 199, pl. 55, figs. 6-11. 

Pecten simplkizis, Wade, 1926, p. 62, pl. 20, fig. 7. 

Peclen sin~plicius, Stephenson, 1941, p. 133, pl. 20, figs. 10-11. 

Pecten simplicius, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44. 



Description.-"Shell small, barely half an inch in extreme height. 

and of equal width; discoid or very depressed convex, nearly orquite 

equilateral; margins of the shell somewhat regularly rounded; hinge- 

line a little less than half the width of the sheU, and slightly rising from 

the center toward the extremities. Auriculations moderately large, 

the anterior side largest, slightly rounded on the outer margin and 

forming a slight byssal notch at its junction with the body of the shell 

on the right valve. Cardinal slopes on the right valve straight to near 

the point of greatest width of the valve, and forming an angle of about 

fifty to fifty-five degrees with each other and very strongly impressed. 

Beak small and pointed. On the left valve the posterior ear is the 

smallest of. the two, and the cardinal slopes less strongly marked, not 

so straight, and extend down the valve not so far as on the opposite 

valve. Surface of the valves smooth and shining to the naked eye, but 

under a lens is seen to he marked by fine concentric lines of growth. 

and on the left valve by faint, incipient, radiating lines.'' (Whitfield). 

Remarks.-Whitfield's description quoted above, is drawn from 

:Alabama specimens of this species, all the New Jersey material at liis 

his disposal being "too imperfect for illustration." The species is also 

extremely rare in the more recent collections of the Survey, nearly all 

the shells of this type being marked with conspicuous concentric lines, 

which have been made the chief characteristics of the species Pecten 

conrudi Whitf. A few individuals of a small Pecten from the Tinton 

beds, however, the largest of which does not exceed 10 mm. in height, 

seem to be characterized in the impressions of the external surface, by 

their perfectly smooth shells, and have been identified with Conrad's 

species. (Weller) 


\VOODBURY ? :24 

RED BANK : 60 

TINTON: 62, 63 

Range outside il'ew Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina 

South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas. 

Type.-Eufaula, Alabama and Tippah County, Mississippi; 

probably lost. 

Pecien (Neitheal quinquecostata Sowerby 1814 


Pecten quinquecostata Sowerby, 1814, Min. Conch., vol. 1, p. 122, pl. 56, 

figs. 4-8. , 

Neitlbea quinquecostata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 56, pl. 8, figs. 12-14. 

Neithea quinquecostata, TVeller, 1907, p. 481, pl. 51, figs. 7-12. 

Pecten quinquecostata, Gardner, 1916, p. 596, pl. 34, fig. 10. 



Pecten quinquecostata, Wade, 1926, p. 64, pl. 21, figs. 1-5. 

Neithea quinquewstata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44. 

Description.-"SheU broadly ovate exclusive of the auriculations, 

and plano-convex to concavo-convex in profile, right valve strongly 

convex, with a sharp, arching, and incurved beak extending beyond 

and partially overarching the hinge-line; hinge-Line straight or nearly 

so, slightly declining on the anterior side; nearly two-thirds as long as 

the entire width of the shell; auriculations moderate in size, the 

anterior one the smallest and constricted below where it joins the body 

of the shell, forming a slight byssal notch; posterior side triangular, 

longest at the hinge-line and receding below. Sides of the valve where 

it joins the auriculations strongly incurved laterally, so as to cause 

the sides to overhang. Valve marked by six strong, rounded, principal 

radiating costae, with from two to four smaller ones between. These 

are usually distributed in the foUowing manner: three between the 

two anterior strong ones; three or four between the two antero-basal 

and median ones; three usually between the postero-basal pair, and 

usually two only between the posterior pair. There are also three or 

four anterior to the first strong ray, and from four to six on the area 

posterior to the last principal ray. The auriculations are also rayed, 

unequally on the opposite sides, the posterior one most strongly. The 

characters of the flat or left valve have not been observed on the New 

Jersey specimens. The casts, the only condition in which I have seen 

them from within the State, show evidence of moderately strong con- 

centric lines crossing the rays and intermediate portions of the shell." 

(Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-The secondary ribs between the six larger ones show 

considerable variation in the different individuals of this species, hut 

Whitfield was doubtless correct in his reference of all the specimens 

to a single species. In 1850 D'Orbigny proposed the specific name 

mortoni for this American form and was followed by several authors, 

but that species seems to have been founded upon insufEcient charact- 

ers, and in this place we follow Whitfield in considering the American 

specimens to be identical with the conlmon European one. 


MERCHAIiTVILLE: 8, 13, 15, 17 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37, 41, 43, 47, 53 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, District of Colum- 

bia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Telinessee, Mexico, England, South 

Africa. 

Type.-SussexChalk,England. 


PELECYPODA 

Family Spondylidae 

Plicahrla urticosa (Morton) 1833 


Ostrea urticosa Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci. lit ser., vol. 23, p. 293, 

vol. 24, pl. 10, fig. 2. 

Plkatula urticosa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 61, pl. 9, figs. 1-2. 

Plicatula urticosa, Weller, 1907, p. 484, pl. 52, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-"Shell irregularly oval in outline and ohliquely 

curved, biconvex or plano-eonvex, ma!i-ked by strong,somewhat ahgular 

radiating and bifurcating plications, usually much stronger and less 

numerous on the lower than on the upper valve, and crossed by strong 

projecting concentric lamellae, which are elevated and often form thin, 

flat spines on the crest of the radiating plications of greater or less 

length, which give a very rough and spiney surface to the shell, re- 

sembling that of Spondylus. Muscular impression moderate; teeth not 

observed." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species differs from P. .mzallkaensis in its more ir- 

regular form and in its much more rugose markings. 


MERCHANTVILLE : 15, 17 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 41,43,46 

Type.-New Jersey; ANSP 18711. 

Plicatula mullicaensis Weller 1907 


Plicatula mullicaensis Weller, 1907, p. 485, pl. 52, figs. 3-5. 

Plicatula mullkaensis, Stephenson, 1941, p. 140, pl. 22, figs. 14-15. 

Desc~iption.-Shell obliquely ovate. The upper valve depressed- 

convex, marked by radiating costae and concentric lines of growth, at 

the junction of which the radiating costae are produced into short 

spines. 

The dimensions of an average specimen are: total length, 30 mm. ; 

width, 22 mm. 

Remarks.-This species is abundant at Mullica Hill and has usually 

been confused with P. urticosa. It differs from that species, however, 

in its much more regular outline and in its much finer surface markings. 

Only the upper valves of the species have been observed, but these seem 

to he more uniform in their characters than is usual for members of 

this genus. (Weller) 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 53 



Range outside New Jersey: Mississippi, Alabama, Texas. 

Type.-Mullica. Elill, N. J. NJSM 9996; Univ. Chicago 18630 

(eotypes). 

Plicatula woodburyensis Weller 1907 


Plicotela woorlb~rryensis Weller, 1907, p. 485, pl. 52, figs. 8-9 

Description-Tipper valve suhovate in outline, only slightly obli- 

que, moderately convex on the umbo, the remainder of the valve near17 

flat. Marked 1. more or less alternating radiating costae which are 

nearly obsolete upon t,he umbonal portion, becoming regularly stronger 

towards the margin, those in front and behind the umbo, curving 

strongly upward, t,he costae elevated at intervals into small, short spines 

directed at nearly right angles to the surface of the shell. Lower valve 

not known. 

The dimensions of the type specimen are: height, 28.5 mm. ; width. 

36 mm. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Not found in recent eolleetions. 


WOODBURP : 18 

Type.-Lorillard, NJSM ? 

Plicatula howelli Richards 1943 

Plate 40, Figure G ; Plate 44, Figure 10 

Plicatula howelli Richards, 1943, p. 25, pl. 4, fig. 6. 

Plicntzila howelli, Stephenson, 1954,p. 30, pl. 7, figs. 3-5. 

Description.-Shell irregular in outline ; length greater than width. 

very slightly convex. EIinge indistinct. Surface ornamented with 1'7 

prominent ribs evenly distributed and about 1.0 mm. apart. The crestc 

of these ribs are covered with spine-like protuberances about 0.5 mm 

apart. Between the major ribs can he seen irregular series of small 

nodules, particularly noticeable near the margin of the shell. Length 

14.0 mm. ; width 16.0 mm. (Richards.) 

Remarks.-The species resembles P. clarki Stephenson, from the 

Rlack Creek formation of North Carolina, in the presence of the minor 

ribs betneen the major ribs, although they are less conspicuous in P. 

howelli than in P. clorki. The major spines of P. howelli are also less 

conspicuous than in P. clarki and there are no indications of the small 

tubes described on the ribs of the North Carolina species, although 

these latter structures may have been destroyed by weathering. The 

new species also differs from P. clarki in that its proportions are rc- 

latively much longer in relation to width. 


I 

I 

I 

It is apparently notvery closely related to any of the three species 

of Plicatzila described from the Cfetaceous of New Jersey, although it 

resembles P. z~rticosa (Morton) in the arrangement of the major ribs. 

The new species is somewhat variable, but for the present all specimens 

are referred to a singlespeeies. 

Stephenson (1954, p. 30) has a'dded some further notes on this 

species. t 

Rnngo in h'ewJersey- 

RARITAN : la, .lb 

Tvpc.-Sayreville, N. J.; holotgpe NJSM 10475; paratype ANSP 

15565, . . - 

. 

Plicatula ferrata Stephenson 1954 


Plieatt~la ferrntn, Stephenson, 1954, p. 31, p1. 7, fig. 6. 

Ii0ne incomplete externjl mold from one of the Sayre and Fishrr 

clay pits at Sayrcville (USGS 19013) is referred to the genus Plieatziln 

Lamarck. Although incomplete the surface features appear to he well 

enough portrayed by the imprint. in the ferruginons matrix to justify 

a specific desidnation. The mold indicates a shell only moderately inflated, 

probably pertaining to a left or smaller valve. It appears to hare 

been subcircular in outline. The surface is covered with numcrons, 

closely spaced, narroy, irregnlar radiating rihs whose crests bear tiny 

irregular nodes ; on parts' o£the surface thi rihs hear small, short, 

spines formccl by t,he npfolding'of growth lamellae. The ribs increase 

* . 

In number in the marginal direction, with little increase in size, hy thc 

intercalation of new ribs in the gradually. widening interspaces. Concentric 

growth ridges are meakly developed at wide intervals. 

Dilnensions of the mold: Length ahout 30 mm, height about 30 rnrn. 

convexity about 4 mm. 

. . 

The surface markings on this species are similar to those on Plieatz~lrr 

zuoodburyensis Wellcr (1907, p.'485, pl. 52, figs. 8, Q), but its radiating 

ribs are more strongly developed and the nodes on the crests of its 

ribs are smaller and weaker." (Stephenson) 


RARITAN : la Type.-Sagreville, N. J. USNM 108637. 

Spondylus gregalis Morton 1833 

Plate 22, Figures 6, 7; Plate 24, Figures 10, 11 

Plagiostaa gregalis Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sei. 1st ser., vol. 23: 

p. 292, pl.5, fig. 6. 



Spond,ylus gregalis, Whitfield, 1856, p. 57, pl. 9, figs. 11-12; pl. 10, 

figs. 1-2. 

Spondylus gregalis, Weller, 1907, p. 486, pl. 53, figs. 1-3. 

Description.-"Shell rather above medium size when fully grown, 

and generally ovate in form, with the lower or attached valve somewhat 

the deepest. Cardinal area large, but short, much extended and flat- 

tened on the surface; transversely striated and with a narrow linear 

groove through the middle; teeth strong. Surface of the lower valve 

strongly lamellose on the free portions; the attachment apparently 

being only small and near the apex; between the lamella, which are 

elevated, the surface shows indistinct radiations, which on the interior 

are quite distinctly marked and flexuose, and are comparatively fine. 

The upper valve not observed, except as shown on casts of the interior. 

In this condition it is shown to have been only very moderately convex 

at the apical portions, and to have been flattened or but very slightly 

convex toward the front, with the surface radiated as in the case of the 

lower valve, but whether the exterior has been lamellose or only simply 

radiated I have not been able to ascertain." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of the large lower valve figured by Whitfield are : 

length, 95 mm.; width, about 55 mm. 

Remarks.-This species seems to be of rather rare Occurrence as 

only fragments have been found recently. A11 the specimens on record 

seem to have come from the Navesink marl. 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 40,44,46,47,53,57 

Type.-Burlington County, N. J.; ANSP 15712. 

Dianchom echinata (Morton) 1835 


Plagiostoma echinatum Morton, 1535, Snop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U.S., 

Add. Obs., 4. 

Spondylus capaz, Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd Ser. 

Vol. 2, p. 274, pl. 24, fig. 5. 

Dianchora echinuta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 59, pl. 10, figs. 3-9. 

Dianchora echinata, Weller, 1907, p. 487, pl. 53, figs. 4-6; pl. 54, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-"Shell below medium size, subcircular or very broad- 

ovate in general outline, and with a very highly convex or gibbous free 

valve. Lower valve fixed to foreign substances, and often by nearly 

its entire surfaee, and conforming in depth to the surfaee to which it 

is &ed, or nearly so. Or when more concave the space between the 

margin of the shell and the object to which it is attached is filled up 

with shelly matter formed in the same manner as the spines of the 

values. The cardinal portion of the valve is open, forming a broad tri- 


PELECYPODA 

angular foramen the entire width of the valve at this point, the mar- 

gins of the foramen being sharp, no hinge-teeth or cardinal area exist- 

ing. The interior of the valve is strongly marked by moderately fine 

striae or ribs, which are flattened on their surfaces; muscular imprints 

not observable. Upper valve very ventrieose and strongly areuate, the 

beak thin and sharply iueurved. Hinge open as in the lower valve, the 

cardinal angles spread outward in the form of auriculatious to meet 

those of the opposite valve. The sides of the valve are sharply bent in- 

ward on a line from the beak to the point of greatest width, forming 

a hiatus on each side between the body of the valve and the aurieula- 

tion, as in the genus Janira. Surface of the valve marked by strong, 

closely compact, radiating ribs; every fifth or sixth one of which is 

stronger than the others, and bears short, sharp, curved spines, some 

of which are nearly one-fourth of an inch long, while the others are 

only rugose from the concentric lamella which cross them. On the de- 

pressed spaces on the sides of the valve there are no radii, the con- 

centric lines only being present. Substance of the shell thin in the 

cardinal portions and much thickened toward the front. Interior of 

the valve marked by the radii, and the thickened front margin strongly 

erenulate." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species is a rare form restricted to the h'avesinli 

fauna, the lower valves usually being attached to the interior surface 

of the shells of Or,l~haea convexa. At Dlullica Hill the casts of this 

species have been observed more commonly than at any other locality. 

The upper free valve does not always have the larger, spine-bearing ribs 

80 conspicuously developed as in the type of the species illustrated by 

Whitfield. In some specimens the ribs are of essentially uniform size 

throughout, and in others the larger oncs are only moderately develop- 

ed. The type specimen seems to be rather exceptional in its conspicuous 

development of the larger ribs. (Weller) 


DIT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 39, 41, 43, 53, 58 

TINTON: 63 

Type.-($. capax) Woodwards Farm, Monmouth Co. ANSP 18713 

Family Proiuyacidae 

Uroscopho squornosa Conrad 1869 


Liroscapha squamosa Conrad, 1869, Amer. Jour. Conch. Vol. 5, p. 100. 

pl. 9, fig. 23. 

Liroscapha squomoso, Weller, 1907, p. 489, pl. 52, figs. 6-7. 

Descriptwn.--Shell suhelliptical in outline, pointed at the beak, 

rounded at the opposite extremity, the sides nearly straight and 



parallel. The upper valve rather strongly convex, marked by unequal, 

radiating, squamose or spinulose costae. 

The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 15 mm.; width, 

'7.5 mm. 

Remarks.-In describing this species as the type of the new genus 

Liroscapha, Conrad expressed some doubt as to its true relations, ex- 

pressing the possibility of its being a univalve. Recent collections have 

brought no additional specimens to light and nothing can be added 

at this tlme to our knowledge of the form. (Weller) 


WOODBURY: 24 


Family Limidae 

Lima pelagica Morton 1833 

. .. 

.. .. 

Plate 24, Figure 12 , .. 

Plagiostoma pelagica Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vo1.'23, 

p. 293, pl. 5, fig. 2. 

Rdula pelagica, Whitfield, 1886, p. 61, pl. 9, figs. 3, 5 (not 4). 

Lima pelagica, Weller, 1907, p. 489, pl. 54, fig. 7. 

Descriptww.-Shell, in large examples, attaining a height of 3J 

mm., a width of 25.5 mm., and a tllickness of about 21.5 mm.; oblique 

subovate in outline, the valves not gaping posteriorly. The hinge-line 

straight, its length about one-third of the greatest length of the shell, 

the hinge area of moderate height, with a large central cartilage pit, 

hinge edentulous; beaks at about the center of the hinge-line, aurieulations 

small, nearly equal. The valves strongly convex and marked by 

about 25 strong, subangular or rounded plications, and usually. wit11 

a minute, elevated rib in the bettom of each interspace; h e concentric 

lines of growth, with sometimes an occasional stronger one, also marl; 

the entire surface of the shell. 

Zemarks.-This is a common member of the Navesink fauna, and, 

besides its large size, it is characterized by the presence of the minute 

secondary radiating ribs in the bottoms of the interspaces between 

the primary plications of the shell, and by the more or less subangular 

primary ribs. Whitfield included in this species the shells described 

in the present report as Lima whitfieldi, in which the secondary ribs 

are wanting and in whieh both the plications and interspaces are rounder. 

In general form the two shells are essentially identical, and in the 1 

internal casts, the condition in whieh the species usually occurs, they 

probably cannot be separated. The secondary ribs are more or less 

variable in the degree of their development in different individuals, 

and are always more conspicuous on the anterior portion of the shell, 


PELECYF'ODA 143 

sometimes being faintly developed or entirely absent from the central 

and posterior portion. (Weller) 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESIhX: 18 


Lima whitfleldi Weller 1907 


Radula pelagica Whitfield, 1886, p. 61, pl. 9, fig. 4 (not 3, 5). 

Lima whitfieldi Weller, 1907, p. 491, pl. 54, fig. 8. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: extreme 

length, 25 mm. ; greatest width, 21. 5 mm. ; length of hinge-line, 8 mm. ; 

convexity of one valve, 7 mm. In general form and proportions this 

shell is essentially identical with R. pelagica, but it has not been ob- 

served to attain so large a size as that species, and differs fundamentally 

in the character of the surface marlcings. In this species the plications 

and interspaces are always rounded and lack entirely the secondary 

riblets which are present in the bottom of the interspaces in R. pelagica. 

In addition to the ribs the shell is entirely covered with fine coneent,ric 

markings. 

Remarks.-The type of this species is one of the specimens which 

Whitfield illustrates as R. pelagica. The specimen has the shell well 

preserved, showing all the surface features, as well as the hinge; it 

is preserved in a rather.eoarse sand cemented with calcium carbonate, 

the so-called "limestone nodules" of Whitfield,.said to come from the 

base of the "lower marl." The horizon of these calcareo-arenaceous 

masses as observed in recent field work, is near the very base of the 

Navesink, or in the uppermost beds of the Wenonah. A few other 

specimens from the AIarshalltown clay-marl are referred to this species 

although they differ somewhat from the type in having narrower inter- 

spaces between the ribs and in having stronger concentric markings 

(XVeller) 


RfARSHALTflOWN: 28 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINTC : 41 

Type.-Holmdel, N. J.' NJSM 7601 

Lima lorillardensis Weller 1907 


Lima Lorillardensis Weller, 1907, p. 492, pl. 54, figs. 5-6. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: heigh~, 

27 mm. ; width, 22 mm. ; thickness, about 16.5 mm. Shell oblique, suh- 



ovate in outline; valves rather strongly convex, marked by 30 to 35 

strong ribs, those on the central portion of the shell being much stronger 

than those towards the lateral margins, these larger ribs are subcarinate 

on top, with a somewhat conspicuous shoulder about half-way down 

each slope, the interspaces rounded in the bottom and somewhat. 

broader than the ribs, the lateral ribs are much narower, lower and 

lack the lateral shoulders. Entire surface marked by fine, regular 

concentric lines. 

Remarks.-The type and only specimen of this species seen is a 

somewhat crushed and distorted internal cast whose exact form and 

proportions cannot be determined, and a portion of the impression of 

the exterior which preserves the surface markings very perfectly. The 

shell apparently has much the same size and proportions as L. whitfieldi. 

but its distinguishing characters are to be found in the surface mark- 

ings. The species somewhat resembles L. squarrosa Oabb, from Ala- 

bama, but that species has broader, higher and more square ribs, which 

are not carinate, and less strongly marked concentric lines. (Weller) 


WOODBURY: 18 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J. NJSM 7727. 

Uma reticulata Lyell & Forbes 1845 


Lima reticulata Lyell & Forbes, 1845, Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc., London, 

vol. 1, p. 62; two text figures. 

Radula reticulata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 63, pl. 9, figs. 8-9. 

Lima auctilineatn, Whitfield, 1886, p. 62, not of Conrad. 

Lima reticulata, Weller, 1907, p. 492, p1..54, figs. 3-4. 

Lima reticulata, Gardner, 1916, p. 600, pl. 34, figs. 12-13. 

Lima reticulata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 212, pl. 58, figs. 10-15. 

Lima reticulata, Wade, 1926, p. 66, pl. 20, fig. 12. 

Lima reticulata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 44. 

Description.-"Shell small, moderately oblique, strongly ovate and 

inflated. Hinge short; beaks proportionately strong and projecting 

beyond the cardinal line. Valves nearly equal; anterior margin straight 

and not at all gaping; auriculations small but distinct, rectangular or 

very slightly pointed at their outer angles. Surface radiately ribbed, 

those of the anterior and posterior slopes faintly marked or obsolete, 

ribs (about 30) distinct, with five or more indistinct on each side; sub- 

angular on the middle ofithe valves and rounded toward the sides, 

crenulate or subspinose OD the larger specimens when well preserved, 

but often appearing nearly smooth. Entire surface marked by con- 


1 

PELECYPODA 

centric ~ihes which give a roughened surface when perfect, giving the 

reticulated hharacter indicated by the specific name." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species is frequently associated with L. pelagica, 

but it can- always be distinguished from it by reason of its smaller 

size and its much finer plications. The specimens are usually preserved 

in the form of internal casts so that the delicate concentric surface 

markings cannot be detected, but upon some speoimens from thp 

Marshalltowq marl near Swedesboro the shell is perfectly preserved. 

Whitfield has considered Lima denticulicosta Gabb as a synonym of 

L. reticdata. In this he is probably in error, since that species is 

described as having "about 28 ribs," while usually as many as 40 may 

be easily recognized upon specimens of R. reticulafa, and furthermore 

the surface markings are very diffefent in the two species. (Weller) 

Range in'h'ew Jersey- 



WENONAH : 34 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE: 37, 38, 40, 46, 47, 53 

RED BqNJC : 59 

TIN TO^: 63 

Range outsule New Jersqy: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 


Type.-New Jersey. Lost. 

Uma monmouthensis l (Whitfield) 1886 


Nucula monmouthensis Whitfield, 1886, p. 102, pl. 11, fig. 1. 

Lima monmoathensis, Weller, 1907, p. 494, pl. 54, fig. 9. 


being: height, 12 mm.; length, 11 mm.; convexity of one valve, 3 mm. 

Valves oblique, moderately convex, subovate in outline not gaping; 

hinge-line short, arcuate, edentulous; beaks near the center of the 

hingle-line, anriculations absent. Surface of valves marked only by 

faint, concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This little shell was deseribed by Whitfield as a member 

of the genus Nucula. A further development of the type specimen has 

shown the entire absence of the nuculoid hinge, and the essential agreement 

of the shell in all its characters with members of the genus Lima. 

A second specimen in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of 

Science, referred to, but not illustrated, by Whitfield is a true Nucula. 

The speeies differs from all other members of the genus Lima reeognized 

in the Cretaceous faunas of New Jersey, in the absence of radiating 

plications, and in the obsolesenee of the auriculations. (Weller) 





WENONAH : 35 

llype.-12larlbor0, I\. J. NJSM 9731. 

Plagiortorna erecta (ltrhitfield) 1886 

Plate 2.2, Figure 12 

Dosina ? erecta Whitfield, 1886, p. 162, pl. 18, 8g. 17 ( 918.20). 

Plagwstoma erecta, Weller, 1907, p. 496, pl. 54, fig. 10. 

Description.-Shell very thin, depressed convex, subcircular in out- 

line, a little longer than high, in large examples attaining a length of 

25 mm., a height of 22.5 mm. and convexity of 4.5 mm. Beaks nearly 

erect, situated back of the middle of the valves, antero-cardinal margin 

deeply inflected to form an excavated escutcheon, back of' the beaks 

the shell is compressed and produced into a small triangularauricula- 

ation; the anterior extremity of the hinge-line meeting the anterior 

shell margin in a slightly obtuse angle. The posterior margin slightly 

sinuate above from the hinge extremity to below the base of the auri- 

culation; beyond this point the margin describes a nearly circular curve 

to the posterior hinge extremity. The surface smooth and shining, 

marked by fine concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species was established by Whitfield "entirely 

from the external appearances of a few shells destitute of the most of 

the cardinal portions, and one interrial cast, on which the markings are 

so faint as not to be considered reliable,"and was referred to the genus 

Dosinia. The internal cast mentioned by Whitfield may belong to the 

same species as the specimens preserving the shells, but it is not possible 

to affirm this with any certainty, and the specimens preserving the 

shells will he considered as the types of the species. These specimens 

are two in number from Marshalltown, N. J., and they undoubtedly 

came from the JIarshalltown clay-marl. Several additional specimens 

of the same form are preserved in tlie more recent collections of thc 

Survey from the same formation near S~vedesboro, and these, with some 

others from the Navesink marl, present additional features of the shell 

not seen by Whitfield, which show the species to be a member of the 

genus Plagiostonta. (Weller) 


MARSHALLTOWN : 27,28 

%IT. LAUREIJ-NAVESINK: 40, 41, 47 

7;ype.-Near hIarslralltoxr~n, N. J. NJSJI 9634. 



Family Anomiidae 

Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 


Anomia aryentnria illorton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 23, 

p. 293, pl. 5, fig. 10. 

Anomia argentaria, Whitfield, 1886, p. 42, pl. 4, figs. 10-11. 

(not fig. 9 = Ostreaplzbniosa). 

Diploschiza crefacea, Whitfield, 1856, p. 43, pl. 4, figs. 4-8. 

(Not Conrad.) 

Anomia avgentaria, Weller, 1907, p. 496, pl. 54, figs. 12-14 (not fig. 15). 

= A. telli.noicles. 

Anomia a.rgentaria, Gardner, 1916, p. 608, p1. 35, figs. 1-2. 

Anomia ~ryentoria~ Wade 1926, p. 68, pl. 22, figs. 10-13. 

Anmnia tellinoides, Wade, 1926, p. 69, pl. 23, figs. 3-4 (not Morton). 

Anomia orgentorin, Stephenson, 1941, p. 148, pl. 24, figs. 1-4. 

A?i.omin ar.qenfnria. Richards. 1943, Proc. Acad. Vat. Sci. Phil. ,vol. 95, 

p. 24) p1. 5, fig. 12. 

Anomia argentnrin. Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45. 

Doscription.-Shell s~ibcircular, more or less irregular in outline. 

the larger individaals attaining a diameter of 25 mm. or more. Upper 

valve depressed convex, with the apex marginal, or nearly marginal. 

the snrfacc marked hy more or less irregnlar, sometimes suhlamellosn. 

lines of gromth, and sometimes hy more or less distinct radiating costac. 

Lower valve Aat, concave or convex, often irregular in contour: thc 

perforation rather large and situated near or at some distance from t.hc 

margin. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This shell has heen confiised with A. tellinoMes Morton. 

See under that species for distinguishing features. 

Ran.ge in New Jersey- 

RARITAN: 1 

MAGOTHY: 5,6 


WOODBURY: 18, 20, 23 


WENONAH : 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 39, 40, 41, 43,47 

RED BANR : 60 


South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, etc. 

Type.-New Jersey; ANSP 15655.? 



Anomia tellinoides Morton 1833 


Anomiu tellinuides Morton, 1834, Snop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U. S., 

p. 61, p1, 5, fig. 11. 

Anomia tellinoides, Whitfield, 1886, p 43, pl. 4, figs. 12-13, 

Anomina argentaria, Weller, 1907. p. 496, pl. 54, fig. 15. (Xot 11-14 = 

A. argentaria) 

Anomia tellinoides, Gardner, 1916, p. 610, pl. 35, figs. 3-4. 

Anomia tellinm.des, Stephenson, 1923, p. 223, pl. 60, figs. 1-7. 

Anomia tellinoides, Stephenson, 1941, p. 147, pl. 24, figs. 5-7. 

Anumia tellinoides, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45, pl. 4, 

fig. 6. 

Description.-"Shell inequilateral, thin but firm, partly transpar- 

ent, somewhat irregular, hut in general broadly snbovate with a tend- 

ency to a roughly triangular outline; depressed convex to moderately 

convex in form, inflated most strongly anteriorly, becoming somewhat 

compressed posteriorly. Beak small, projecting slightly above thr 

dorsal margin, directed backward, and situated about three-fifths thr 

length of the shell from the anterior margin. Dimensions of the typ? 

(from "New Jersey") : Length 34 mm., height 30 mm., convexity 6 

mm. In general the anterior margin is regularly rounded, the ventral 

margin broadly and regularly rounded, and the posterior margin rather 

sharply rounded at about midheight. Between the posterior extremity 

and the beak in typical specimens the margin is truncated or slightly 

concave. 

Hinge edentulus and developed only in front of the beak; it is 10 

to 15 rnm. long, 1 to 2 mm. broad, and roughly striated with concentric 

growth lines. Resilifer submerged with the margin, deeply impressed. 

flaring, and marked with fine striae. A small muscle scar is situated 

just below the forward end of the resilifer, and centrally above the 

midheight is a large, somewhat irregular but roughly ovate muscle 

scar, which probably is in reality three smaller scars not sharply sep- 

arated from each other. 

Surface marked with fine concentric growth lines, and on some 

specimen3 irregnlarly spaced shallow growth undulations; very fine 

radiating lines can be fairly seen on some specimens." (Stephenson.) 

Ren~arks.-This has heen confused with A. argentaria Morton. 

Certain characters distinguish it sharply from that form. Fine 

radiating lines are faintly visible on some specimens when examined 

under a hand lens, but they are much weaker than on A. argentaria 

The hinge is limited to part of the dorsal margin in front of the beak; 

the beak is marginal, projects a little, and is directed backward ; and 

the postero-dorsal margin is more or less concave. A. argentaria is 

snbcircular in outline, is marked by stronger though still very fine 



radiating lines, and has a nonprominent beak situated 1 mm. or more 

away from the margin. 

Range in New Jcrsey- 

WOODBURY: 22 

NOUNT LAUREL : 47 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, North Carolina, Tennessee, 

Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas. 

Type.-"New Jersey". ANSP 

Anomia radiata Weller 1907 


Anomia radiata Weller, 1907, p. 499, pl. 54, figs. 16-17. 

Description.-Shell irregularly subovate in outline, the dimensions 

of the type specimen being: height, 12.5 mm.; width, about 20 mm. 

Free valve depressed convex, the apex marginal. The attached valve 

flatter, the perforation near the margin. Both valves marked by 

rather coarse, irregular, nodose, radiating costae, the nodes being 

small squamose projections as shown by impressions of the exterior. 

Remarks.-The example selected as the type of this species is the 

most complete of several individuals which are attached to the leaves 

of a marine plant, the plant having been fossilized with the shells 

attached. A few impressions and casts of other individuals have been 

found in the Merchantville and Woodbury formations, hut no others 

have been seen attached. Some of these specimens are much larger 

than the type, the larger ones sometimes having a maximum diameter 

of nearly 30 mm. In the character of their surface markings the mem- 

bers of this species resemble Paranomia scabra, but the costae are 

always finer than in that species, and the shells do not grow to so large 

a size. In the perforated lower valve, however, these shells possess the 

essential feature of the genus Anmnio. 

In recent years a single specimen has been found at Maple Shade. 



WOODBURY: 28 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J. NJShI 9599. 

Paranomia scabra (Rforton) 1834 

Plate 18, Figure 4;"l'latc 22, Figure 3; Plate 25, Figure 1 

Placu?za scebra Morton, 1834, Snop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. U. S., p. 62. 

Plaeunano~~iia lineata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 44, pl. 10, fig. 10. 

Paranaia scabra, \\:hitfield, 1886, p. 44, pl. 10, fig. 10. 

Paranomia lineata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 45, pl. 9, fig. 10. 


I


Paranomia scabra, WeUer, 1907, p. 500, pl. 52, figs. 10-13. 

Paranonzia scabra, Gardner, 1916, p. 605. 

Paranomia lineata, Gardner, 1916, p. 606, pl. 35, figs. 11-12. 

Para?~omia scabra, Stephenson, 1923, p. 234, pl. 61, figs. 1-4. 

Paranon~ia scabra, Wade, 1926, p. 67, pl. 22, figs. 3-9. 

.Parawntia scabra, root, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45. 

Description.-She11 thin and fragilt:, broadly and irregularly sub- 

ovate in outline, the dimensions of the lagest individual observed being : 

length from beak to opposite border, 55 mm. ; width at right angles to 

the last dimension, 54 mm. The dimensions of an individual of more 

nearly average size are: length, 31 mm. ; width, 34 mm. The upper valve 

depressed convex, the surface marked by distant, rounded, elevated 

radiating ribs, which are frequently more or less wavy in their direction 

and become stronger towards the front of the shell. At irregular in- 

tervals the ribs are produced into hollow spines directed amay from 

the beak, which become larger and more distant as the ribs increase 

in strength towards the front of the shell; the spaces between the ribs 

are broad and flat, being three or four times as wide as the ribs, and 

on the best preserved shells are marked with rather delicate concentric 

lines. The lower valve is convex towards the beak, where it is apparently 

broadly perforate, becoming concave towards the front of the valve. 

The surface markings are similar to those of the upper valve, though 

in some cases the ribs and spines seem to be less strongly developed. 

Renzarks.-This species was formerly common in the biarshdltown 

formation near Swedcsboro where a large number of individuals retaining 

the shell were collected. None of them are so large as the specimen 

illustrated by Whitfield under the name of P. lineata, but they all 

exhibit the same essential specific characters as that shell. Whitfield 

was in error, however, in considering the specimen he used for study 

as a perforate valve, the apparent perforation near the beak being only 

a fracture. In none of tbe Swedesboro specimens, which are perfectly 

preserved up to the beak, is any perforation shown in the convex valve, 

but in several of those which become concave towards the front there 

is apparently a broatl perfor;~tion closc to tllc beak, tllthough there 

is some reason for doubting the presence of an ;ictual perforation 

in this valve, as it seems to be absent from some specimens which are 

complete to the beak. 

There seems to be no sufficient reason for recognizing the two species 

of Paranomia of Whitfield's monograph. The type of Morton's species, 

P. scabra, illustrated by Whitfield, is only a fragment of a shell belonging 

to the same species as the one illustrated as P. lineata, althougli 

it is somewhat more irregular and rougher than usual. llorton's name 

having priority is adopted for the species. P. saffordi Con., from Ten- 

' 

nessee, must also be considered as a synonym. (Weller) 


PELECWODA 




MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE : 47 


South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi ,Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, 

Texas. 

Type.-Blue Marl of X. J. ; ANSP 3969. 

Family Mytilidae 

Mytilus smocki Weller 1907 


M,ytilz~s smocki Weller, 1907, p. 502, pl. 55, figs. 14. 

Description.-Shell more or less arcnate, the larger type specimen 

with an extreme length of 37 mm.; a maximum width of 13 mm., and 

thickness of both valves 18 mm. The valves strongly convex, with a 

rounded ridge below the middle extending from the beak to the postero- 

basal margin, below the ridge the surface of the valves are rather 

abruptly inflected, meeting nearly in a plane along the ventral margin. 

The beaks pointed, the dorsal and ventral margins diverging at an angle 

of about 35'; the hinge arcuate, passing gradually into the postero- 

dorsal margin which is more or less carinate, posteriorly the dorsal 

and ventral margins of the shell are subparallel, the posterior margin 

rather narrowly rounded below, the antero-ventral margin more or 

less concave. Adductor muscular impressions rather large, situated 

near the posterior extremity of the shell. Surface of the shell marked by 

fine radiating costae, about three of which occupy the space of one 

millimeter, and also by concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species is remarkable for the great convexity of 

the valves, the thickness of the entire shell being considerably greater 

than its width. Two complete specimens have been observed, both of 

which shorn the enormous thickness of the shell, although one is con- 

siderably more arcuate than the other. The surface markings have not 

been satisfactorily determined because the specimens are both for the 

most part internal casts, both of them, however, retain some indications 

of the fine radiating costae, and one of them retains a small fragment 

of the shell itself. In the casts several concentric lines of growth are of 

considerable strength. ('\'\Teller) 


MT. IJAUREL-NAVESINK: 40,46 

Type.-Walnford, N. J. NJSM 7609 ; Univ. Chicago 18634 

(cotypes). 



Mytilus oblivius Whitfield 1886 


Hytilzis obliuius Whitfield, 1886, p. 64, pl. 17, fig. 1. 

Mytdzis obliuiss, Weller, 1907, p. 603, pl. 55, figs. 5-8. 

Description.-"Shell small, ereet. or but very slightly curved on the 

buccal margin ; beaks terminal, projecting and acute. Hinge line sloping 

at an angle of about 60' to the buccal margin; posterior margin sub- 

parallel to the anterior, and the extremity rather sharply rounded. 

Anterior face abrupt, and the surface of the valve gradually sloping 

from the umbonal angle to the posterior margin. Surface apparently 

marked by fine lines of growth as ir~dicated on the east." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Whitfield described this species from a single specimen 

collected from the summit of the Wenonab sand near Marlboro. It 

has rarely been found in recent collections. 

Rangc in New Jcrsey- 

MAGOTHY: 5 

WENONAH : 35 

NAVESINK : 53 

Type.-Marlborn, N. J. NJSM !)733. 

Mytilus? planus Richards 1943 


Mytilus ? planus Richards, 1943, p. 23, pl. 4, fig. 5. 

Description.-Shell narrow, beak pointed, surface smooth. Has out- 

ward appearance of a .Wytilus, but the exact relat.ionship can not be 

determined because of the poor state of preservation. Length 23.0 mm. ; 

greatest width 15.0 mm. (Richards.) 

Range in New Jerse,y- 

RARITAN: la 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. NJSN 10447. 

Volsella rnonmouthensis (Weller) 1907 


Modwla monmoz~thensis Weller, 1907, p. 504, pl. 55, figs. 9-10. 


being : length, 8 mm. ; width. 4.5 mm. ; convexity of one valve 2.5 mm. 

Hinge-line about one-half the total length of the shell, beaks nearly 

anterior, incurved, umbo prominent; anterior margin short and ronnd- 

ed, ventral margin nearly straight, slightly sinuate back of the middle 

of the shell, posterior margin rather sharply rounded below, sloping 

from the posterior extremity of the hinge-line above with a slightly 

convex curve. Surface of the valves marked with fine radiating costre, 


PELECYPODA 

which, judging from the internal casts alone, are much stronger upon 

the posterior portion of the shell; surface also marked with concentric 


Remarks.--This species is the only member of the genus as yet 

recognized in the Cretaceous faunas of New Jersey, in which the shell 

is marked with radiating costa?. It is also the smallest species of the 

genus observed, none of the individuals varying materially from the 

dimensions given above. (\\Teller) 

The vi~lidity of Volsclla Scapoli versus Modiolzcs Lamarck has re- 

cently been established.' 



Tgpe.-Near Matawan, N. J. NJSM 8964. 

Volsella burlingtonensis (Whitfield) 1886 


lliodiola burlingtonensis Whitfield, 1886, p. 65, pl. 17, figs. 8-9. 

Modiola bz~rlingtonensis, Weller, 1907, p. 505, pl. 55, figs. 18-19. 

~Modiola burlingtonensis, Gardner, 1916, p. 615. 

Volsella burlingtonensis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45. 

Description.-"Shell of moderately large size, very ventricose, and 

with subparallel dorsal and vcntral margins, large prominent umbones 

and incurved beaks situated near the anterior end hut not terminal, the 

anterior margin perceptibly extending beyond them and rounded. 

Umbonal ridge prominent and subangular, especially near the beaks, 

and becoming broader and more rounded posteriorly; surface of the 

valves strongly constricted and sinuate in front of the ridge and the 

anterior surface again inflated; cardinal slope comparatively broad 

and slightly concave toward the postero-cardinal border. Hinge-line 

straight and three-fifths as long as the shell, and rather strongly impressed 

in the internal cast; postero-cardinal margin rounding rapidly 

forward from the more narrowly rounded posterior extremity. Surface 

of the cast, the only condition under which it is known, apparently 

smooth or marked only by irregular concentric lines of growth, some of 

which produce undulations of considerable strength on the casts. On 

one individual there appears on the posterior cardinal slope very faint 

indications of rather coarse radiating lines, but too faint to warrant the 

statement that such markings really exist on the shell." (Whitfleld.) 

Remarks.-The horizon of this species is not satisfactorily known, 

as it has not been met with in any of the recent collections of the Survey, 

and the recorded locality "Burlington County," is too indefinite to be 

of much assistance in forming an opinion. The lithologic character of 

the specimen, however, more closely resembles that of specimens from 

'Stowan. Ralph, Aead. NnL Ssi. Phila. Special Pub. 3. pp. 98.99. 



the Merchantville clay-marl than any others, and it is probable that it 

collected from that formation. (Wellcr) 


MERCHANTVILLE : ( ?) 14 


Type.-Burlington County, N. J.; AXSP 18801. 

Volsella julia (Lea) 1861 


,410diola juliae Lea, 1861, Proc. Aead. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 149. 

Modiola julia, Whitfield, 1886, p. 64, pl. 17, fig. 6 (not fig. 7) 

~Uodiola julia, Weller, 1907, p. 506, pl. 55, figs. 12-13. 

Description.-Shell snbovatc in outline, the dimensions of the largest 

specimen observed being: length, 27 mm. ; greatest height, 13 mm. ; 

convesity of one valve, 5.5 mm.; the hinge-line about .G3 of the total 

length; the beaks incurved, situated about one-seventh of the total 

length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Anterior margin 

rounded, meeting the hinge-line in an obtusely rounded angle, ventral 

margin nearly straight or slightly sinuate near the middle; if projected 

anteriorly it mould meet tht: projection of the dorsal margin in 

an angle of about 16"; posterior margin broadly rounded, its most 

posterior projection below the middle. From the beak a rounded umbonal 

ridge passes obliquely backward to the postero-basal margin, in 

front of which is n rather broad, shallow, ill-defined snlcus. The surface 

markings of the shell consist of concentric lines of growth which 

are stronger and more regular upon the posterior slope. 

Remarks-The type of this species, from the Woodbury clay near 

Ifaddonfield, is a badly crushed shell 13.5 mm. in length, which is just 

one-half the size of the larger individual figured in the present report 

from Lorillard. This fact is in agreement, however, with nearly all the 

species which are common to these two localities, the Lorillard individuals 

gciicrally hcing much larger than those from Haddonfield. 

The Haddonfield specin~en of this species is proportionally much shorter 

than those from Lorillard, but this difference is doubtless due to the 

distortion of thc former, and it is believed that the Lorillard specimens 

much more nearly exhibits the normal form of the shell. The original 

of Ti'hitfield's figure 7 is not a member of this species, and judging 

from its lithologic characters it must have come from a much higher 

horizon, certainly from one of the marl beds and possibly the Manasqnan. 

(JVeller) 

Range in New Jerse;y- 

I\lERCIIANTVILLE : 10 

IVOODBURY: 18, 19, 24 

1:ype.-Haddonfield, N. J. ; ANSP 19579. (Badly crushed.) 


PELECYPODA 

Volsella wenonah I Weller) 1907 


Modiola wenonak Weller, 1907, p. 507, pl. 55, fig. 11. 


being: length, 15 mm.; width, 8 mm.; convexity, 3.5 mm. The hinge- 

line a little more than one-half the length, the beaks nearly anterior, 

umbo rather prominent with a somewhat broadly rounded umbonal 

ridge extending to the postero-basal margin. Anterior margin rather 

broadly rounding into the nearly straight basal margin which is slightly 

sinuate hack of the middle, postero-basal margin rather sharply round- 

ing into the long, oblique, slightly convex upper portion of the posterior 

margin which meets the posterior extremity of the hinge-line at an 

angle of about 125". Surface of the internal cast marked by indistinct 


Ren~arks.-This species is based upon a single individual from the 

top of the Wenonah sand near Marlboro. It differs from all other mem- 

bers of the genus in the New Jersey Cretaceous faunas, in the con- 

spicuous postero-basal extension of the shell with the long oblique 

posteriol. s!ope abovc. 

Range in hrcw Jersw- 

WENONAH : 35 

1'ype.-JIarlboro, N. J. NJShI 7681. 

Crenella serica Conrad 1860 


Crenella serica Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser.. 

vol. 4, p. 281, pl. 46, fig. 23. 

Crenella serica, Weller, 1907, p. 510, p1. 56, figs. 7-8. 

Crenella serica, Gardner, 1916, p. 624, pl. 36, figs. 16-18. 

Crenella serica, Stephenson, 1923, p. 241, pl. 62, figs. 1-2. 

Crenella serica, Stephenson, 1941, p. 153, pl. 25, figs. 13-15. 

Doscription.-Shell small, the dimensions of an average individual 

being: greatest length, 4 mm.; greatest width, 3 mm. Oblique, subovate 

in outline, strongly convex, the umho prominent, the beaks incurve'd. 

The anterior slope from the umbo abrupt, inflected towards 

the anterior extremity of the hinge-line. Surface marked by fine 

regular, concentric lines which can be easily seen with the unaided eye, 

and by finer, regular, radiating stri~, which can usually be seen only 

with a magnifying glass. (Weller) 

Ranye in ATew Jerse~l- 

31ARSHALLTOWhr: 28 




Range outside ATew Jersey : Maryland, North Carolina, South Caro- 

lina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,,Texas. 

Type.-Eufaula, Alabama; probably lost. 

Crenella elegantula Meek & Hayden 1861 


Crenella elegantula Meek & Hayden, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

p. 441. 

Crenella elegantula, Weller, 1907, p. 511, pl. 56, fig. 6. 

Crenella elegantula, Gardner, 1916, p. 625, pl. 36, fig. 19. 

Crenella elegantula, Wade, 1926, p. 71. 

Crenella elegantula, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45. 

Description.-Shell obliquely subovate in outline; the dimensions 

of a perfect cast of a left valve ore : height, 10.5 mm. ; width, 8.5 mm. ; 

convexity, 5 mm. Valves ventricose, umbo prominent, beak nearly 

terminal, small and strongly incmved. Surface marked by exceedingly 

fine radiating cost= which can be seen upon the internal east, indicating 

that the shell substance was very thin. 

Remarks.-This species differs from C. serica in its much larger 

size, its proportionally broader form, and in the absence of the con- 

spicuous concentric markings of the shell. The New Jersey examples 

are apparently identical with the western specimens from which the 

species was described, and the same form occurs in the southern Ripley 

beds. (Weller) 

Range in New Jersw- 

TINTON : 62 

Range outside ATew Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, 

Mississippi, Western Interior, Rocky Mountains. 

T,ype.-Deer Creek, Nebraska; USNM 1925. 

Lithophaga ripleyana Gabb 1861 


Lithophagus vipleyanzrs Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nut. Sci. Phil., p. 326. 

Lithodon~us ripleyana, \Vhitfiel


grown specimens, the width and thickness usually about one-half the 

length. Anterior extremity of the shell bluntly rounded, the beaks 

blunt, anterior or nearly terminal in position; posterior extremity of 

the shell compressed. Dorsal margin marked by an impressed line 

between the valves. Surface of the shell, which is rarely preserved> 

marked by lamellose, concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species occurs most frequently in the Navesink 

marl, where it attains its maximum size, but one colony of shells has 

been detected in the recent Survey collections from the Wenonah sand, 

the individuals of which seem not to differ from those in the Navesink, 

except that none of them exceed 10 mm. in length. In connection with 

his original description, Gabb mentions having collected one specimen 

of the species from near the place now known as Westville, the horizon 

of which would bc Merchantville clay-marl, but the species has not 

been detected in the recent collections of the Survey from this horizon. 

(Weller) 

A. ripleyana Gabb is relatively more elongated transversely than 

L. affinis Gabb, a co-existant species over much of the area of its occur- 

ence, and is much less inflated. (Gardner.) 

This species may be identical with L. carolinemis (Conrad) (Stephen- 

son, 1941, p. 155) 


MERCHANTVILLE : 16 ( 9) 

WENONAH: 34 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37, 42, 46, 47, 53 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, Tennessee, 

Mississippi. 

Type.-Cross~icks, N. J. ; ANSP 19580. 

Uthophaga affinis Gabb 1861 


Lithophagus affinis Oabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., p. 327 

Lithodomus affinis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 66, pl. 17, figs. 2, 3. 

Lithophaga ripleyana, Weller, 1907, p. 512, pl. 56, figs. 9-12. 

Description.-Tube robust, curved, short. Portion containing the 

shell broad, grooved at the anterior half of the back, rounded carinate 

the rest of the length. Opposite face more narrow and deeply grooved. 

Extremity distinctly trilobate. Shell unknown. From the shape of the 

tube, it appears related to [IJithophaga ripleyana] but the beaks are 

lesss ~rominent in advance : the shell is much more gibbous, the basal 

margins more cmarginate, and the posterior margin more depressed. 

(Gabb.) 

Length of tube (extending a little beyond the shell) .6 inches. 



Width (in the direction of the length of the shell) .35 inches. Trans- 

verse midth .4 inch. 

Range in New Jerse.y- 


1:ype.-New Jersey; ANSP 18802. 

Family Pholadomyadae 

Pholadomya occidentalis Morton 1833 


Pholadomya occidentalis, Morton, 1839, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 23, 

p. 292, pl. 8, fig. 3. 

Pholadomycz occidentolis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 175, pl. 24, figs. 1-3. 

Pholadotirya occidcntnlis, Weller, 1907, p. 513, p1. 56, figs. 1-3 

(syn.excl.) 

Pholadonqya occidentalis, Gardner, 1916, p. 630, pl. 37, figs. 1-3. 

Pholadomya occidontalis, Wade, 1926,p. 72, pl. 23, figs. 13-15. 

Pholadomya occidentalis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 45, 

pl. 5, fig. 1. 

Description.-The dimensions of an average sized specimen are: 

length, about 70 mm. ; height, 47 mm.; thickness, 45 mm. Shell sub- 

ovate or subelliptical in lateral outline, and cordate from in front. 

Hinge-line straight, about two-thirds as long as the shell; anterior 

margin rounding from the cardinal extremity into the basal margin, 

or obliquely subtruncate; basal margin gently convex, becoming 

straighter posteriorly; posterior margin more narrowly rounded than 

the anterior. Beaks large and broad, situated from one-fifth to one- 

fourth the length of the shell from the anterior extremity, strongly in- 

curved and nearly in contact, moderately elevated above the hinge-line. 

Valves most prominent at about their mid-height in front of the middle 

of the shell; from this point the surface curves rather abruptly to the 

ventral anterior and cardinal margins, and much more gently to thu 

gaping posterior margin; the cardir~al margins back of the beaks are 

slightly inflected to form a rather distinct, concave cardinal area of 

moderate vidth on each valve. Surface of each valve marlred by 25 

to 30 more or less irregular and wavy, rounded, radiating eostie of 

moderate strength, much narrower than the intervening depressions, 

and closer together in the middle of the shell than at either the anterior 

or posterior portions; in the middle of the shell every other costa on 

large individuals has usually been intercalated between two others 

at some distance below the beak; the shell is also marked by more or 

less irregular, concentric undulations. (Weller) 

Remrks.-Especially eommon in the Merehantville formation. 


PELECYPODA 

Range in A7aw Jersey- 

MAGOTHY: 5,6 


WOODBURY : 19 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Tennessee, Alabama, 

Mississippi, Arkansas. 

Type.-Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

Pholadomya roemeri Whitfield 1886 


Pholadmnya roenteri Whitfield, 1886, p. 176, pl. 24, fig. 4. 

Pholadomya roemeri, Wellcr, 1907, p. 515, pl. 56, figs. 4-5. 

Description.--The approximate dimensions of a rather small spcci- 

men are: length, 38 mm. ; height, 22 mm. ; thickness,-18 mm. Shell very 

oblique and incquilateral, elongate subovate in outline, widest back of 

the middle. Beaks small, incurved and nearly in contact, situated far 

forward. Hinge-line straight, rather long; anterior margin rounding 

from the anterior cardinal extremity into the basal margin; basal 

margin gently convex, curving upward posteriorly; posterior margin 

rather sharply rounded above the mid-height of the shell. Valves 

strongly convex or ventricose, the surface curving rather abruptly from 

the prominent umbones to the dorsal, anterior and ventral margins, 

much more gently to the posterior margin. Surface of each valve 

marked by about 13 narrow, angular, radiating costie, separated by 

broad, concave interspaces; the most. anterior costre cuve sliglitly 

forward in passing from the beak to the margin of the shell. The 

surface is also marked by more or less irregular concentric lines of 

growth. 

Remarks.-This species is a much smaller and more elongate form 

than P. occidentdis, and the two are never found associated in the 

same fauna. It also has a much smaller number of cost= which are 

relatively more distant than in tlic larger species. (Weller) 

Range in New Jet-scy- 

WENONAH: 35 

Type.-Mal.lboro, N. J. XJSX 9735. 

Family Anatinidae 

Andina jerseyensis Weller 1907 


Anatina jerseyensis Weller, 1907, p. 516, pl. 57, figs. 1-4. 

Description.-The dimensions of a nearly complete internal cast 

are: length, 44 mm. ; height, 29 mm. ; thickness, 11 mm. Shell subovate 



in outline, a little gaping posteriorly, much broader in front than 

behind; beaks transversely fissured, situated back of the middle, 

pointing posteriorly. Antero-cardinal margin straight and nearly 

horizontal in front of the beak, curving gradually downward in front ; 

anterior margin broadly rounded from the cardinal to the basal mar- 

gins; basal margin nearly straight in the middle, curving upward at 

each end; posterior margin with its greatest extension above the middle 

of its height, curving into the basal margin below and the cardinal 

margin above; post-cardinal margin strongly concave. Valves de- 

pressed convex, most prominent in the umbonal region, abruptly com- 

pressed towards the postero-cardinal extremity, the anterior and 

ventral slopes gently convex. Shell marked by more or less irregular 

concentric lines of gromth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species resembles Periplomya elliptica, but is 

larger, less cuneate behind, and lacks the curved angular umbonal ridge 

of that species. It seems to be a true Snatina, although it is difficult 

to distinguish it from Periplomya when it occurs as internal casts. 

'Range in New J~Fs~#- 


WOODBURY: 18 

WENONAH: 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESIMC: 53 

Range outside Few Jersey : Delaware. 

Type.--Jamesburg, N. J. NJSM 7740 (cotype) ; Marlboro, N. J. 

XJSM 9737 (cotype). 

Anatina cliffwoodensis IVeller 1907 

Plate 2i, Figure 1 

Anutina clifwoodensis IVeller, 1907, p. 517, pl. 57, figs. 5-6. 


being: length, about 18 mm. ; height, 12 mm.; thickness, 6 mm. Shell 

subovate in outline, apparently a little gaping posteriorly, much broad- 

er in front than behind. Beaks compressed, directed backward, fissured 

transversely, situated about seven-ninths of the length of the shell 

from the anterior extremity, antero-cardinal margin straight and near- 

ly horizontal in front of the beaks, curving downward in front int,o the 

broadly rounded anterior margin; basal margin gently convex curving 

upward more strongly at each end ; posterior margin sborter and prob- 

ably more sharply rounded than the anterior. Valves depressed-convex, 

more prominent in the umbonal region, abruptly compressed towards 

the postero-cardinal extremity, the anterior and ventral slopes greatly 

convex. Shell marked by rather fine concentric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This species resembles the one described in this report as 

Anutina jerseyensis, but may be distinguished by reason of its smaller 


PELECYPODA 161 

size more elongate form, and by the much more posterior position OF 

the beaks. (Weller) 


MAQOTHY: 5 

Anatina jamesburgensis Weller 1907 


Anatina jamesburgensis Weller, 1907, p. 517, pl. 57, fig. 7. 

Description.-The type specimen is only the dorsal portion of 

a shell preserved as a mould of the exterior, and the ventral outline 

can he determined only by restoration from the direction of the con- 

centric markings of that portion of the shell which is preserved. The 

dimensions of the restored type are: length, 37 mm.; height, estimated, 

20 mm. ; thickness about 7.5 mm. Beaks incurved and nearly or quite 

in contact, situated hack of the middle of the shell, pointing backward 

Antero-cardinal margin straight and nearly horizontal in front of 

the beaks, curving downward in front; anterior margin roundin~r 

from the cardinal into the basal margin; basal margin slightly convex 

in the middle, curving upward in front and behind; posterior margin 

apparently rounded. Valves most prominent below the umbonal region. 

the surface curving rather abruptly to the cardinal margin, gentlv 

convex to the anterior and ventral margins; posteriorly the valveq 

are rather abruptly depressed along a line running obliquely backward 

from the beaks, so that the postero-cardinal portion of the shell is con- 

spicuously compressed. Surface of the shell marked by rather strong 

concentric undulations and by fine concentric linea of growth; the 

postero-cardinal compressed portion of the shell is apparently smooth. 

hut the character of the markings of this portion of the shell is not 

clearly shown on the specimen. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species is much like A. jerseyensis, hut it is pro- 

portionally more elongate and not so high. It is also marked by the 

conspicuous, somewhat regular, rounded, concentric undulations which 

are wanting in the other species. 



Type.Jamesburg, N. J. NJSM 8958. 

Cercomya peculiaris (Conrad) 1869 


Inoceramus peculiaris Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 43, 

pl. - 1, . fie. - 13. 

Cercomya peculiaris, Whitfield, 1886, p. 178, pl. 23, figs. 24-25. 



Cercomya peculiaris, Weller, 1907, p. 518, pl. 56, figs. 13-14. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: length. 

approximately 50 mm.; height, 29 mm. Shell subtrapezoidal in outline; 

beaks considerably in front of the middle of the shell. Anterior 

margin obliquely truncate above, sloping abruptly downward from the 

beak, sharply rounded below into the basal margin; basal margin 

gently convex ; posterior margin probably broadly rounded ; postcardinal 

margin concave just back of the beak, probably becoming 

straighter posteriorly. Valves moderately convex. Surface markcd 

by strong, concentric wrinkles of growth. 

Remarks.-This species is known from the single type specimen 

which is a mere fragment showing only the anterior portion of a left 

valve, and probably represent,s less than one-half of the entire Talvc. 

The outline of the posterior portion of the valve can only be judged by 

the direction of the concentric lines of growth upon the umbonal 

portion of the type specimen. The specimen mas originally described 

by Conrad as an Inoceramz~s :rs follows: "St~bequilateral; ? convex, 

posterior margin rectilinear, very oblique, extremely angular; ribs 

prominent, concentric." The so-called posterior margin in this description 

is without donbt in reality the anterior margin, and is so 

considered in the description given ahove. (Weller) 


WOODBURY: 20 

Type.-Crosswicks, N. .T. -4NSP 18768. 

Anatimya anteradiata Conrad 1860 


Anatimfja anteradiata Conrad, 1860,' Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd 

ser., vol. 4, p. 276, pl. 46, fig. 3. 

Anatinal~a anteradiata, Weller, 1907, p. 519, pl. 57, fig. 12. 

Description.-The dimensions of a right valve are : length, 56 mm. ; 

height, 31 mm. Shell subelliptical in outline, the beaks small, subcentral 

in position, scarcely elevated above the hinge-line, pointing 

posteriorly, fissured. Antero-cardinal margin straight and horizontal 

in front of thc,beak, curving downward anteriorly; anterior margin 

broadly rounding from the cardinal to the basal margins; basal margin 

curving upward in front and behind, nearly straight in the middle, 

subparallel with the dorsal margin; posterior margin most produced 

near the cardinal line, curving broadly to the basal margin and more 

sharply to the cardinal extremity; post-cardinal margin concave just 

behind the beaks, becoming nearly straight posteriorly. Valves deprcssed 

convex. a little gaping behind. Surface of the shell in front of the 

beaks, marked by rather strong, more or less irregular concentric undulations, 

and by fine, more or less irregular lines of growth ; posterior 



half of the shell marked by more or less inconspicuous concentric mark- 

ings, and by about 10 or 12 narrow, angular, radiating costae, the most 

anterior of which extends nearly vertically downward from the beak to 

the ventral margin, being slightly bowed forward; back of this is a 

rather broad smooth space beyond which the costae reappear, the in- 

tervals between them gradually becoming wider posteriorly, the most 

posterior one reaching the posterior margin of the shell near the middle, 

leaving a smooth area for some distance below the cardinal border. 

Remarks.-This species was originally described from Tippah 

County, bfississippi. It occurs in both the TVoodbury clay and the Weno- 

nah sand. In the original description of the species the anterior and post- 

erior extremities of the shell were reversed. There was also published 

at the same time with the definition of this species, the descriptions of 

two others, A. postsulcata and A. papyria, but the types of both of these 

have apparently been lost or destroyed. However, both are probably 

only variations of A. anteradiata and are not worthy of recognition as 

distinct species. The species is an abundant one at the original locality 

in the Ripley beds of Tippah County, Afississippi, and a comparison of 

the New Jersey specimens with many examples including the type of 

the species in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Science, 

has demonstrated the specific identity of the specimens from the tvo 

regions. (TVeller) 


WOODBURY: 18 

WENONAH: 35 

Range outside Xew Jersey : Alabama, Dfississippi. 

Type.-Tippah County, Miss. ; ANSP t 

Anafirnya lala (Whitfield) 1866 


Pholas 9 lata Whitfield, 1886, p. 189, pl. 25, fig. 17. 

Anatimya lata, Weller, 1907, p. 521, pl. 57, fig. 13. 

Anatimya lata, Wade, 1926, p. 74. 

Description.-"Shell large and proportionally very broad between 

dorsal and basal margins, the relative height and length being about 

as two to three respectively. The general outline is slightly ovate, 

widest at the anterior end and gradually narrowing posteriorly, the 

beak being a little in advance of the middle and showing somewhat 

above the cardinal line in the slightly compressed and somewhat crush- 

ed specimen of an internal east of a left valve, the only one yet seen. 

Anterior and posterior ends rounded, the latter one most narrowly so; 

basal line slightly emarginate just behind the middle of its length; 

cardinal line apparently arcuate throughout. Surface of the shell, 

as shown on the cast, convex, with a broad sulcus passiug across the 



valve from beak to base, reaching the latter behind the middle. Ant- 

erior to the sulcus the surface is radiately ribbed, the rays being some- 

what alternate in size over a portion of the space. At the bottom of the 

broad sulcus there is a single larger and stronger rib, which passes from 

the beak directly to the base of the shell, which it reaches at the point 

of greatest emargination. Posterior to this larger rib the surface is 

destitute of radiating lines, the surface being marked only with broad, 

irregular, concentric sulci, vhich extend over the entire surface 

parallel to the margin of the shell." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-The type specimen of this species, which is the only 

one which has been observed, is poorly preserved, but it is clearly a 

member of the genus Anatimya rather than Pholm, and is possibly 

identical with A. postsulcata Con. The type of Conrad's species is only 

a fragment exhibiting the inside of the shell, but both the concentric 

and radiating markings are finer than in Whitfield's species. In Whit- 

field's description of the species, quoted above, the anterior and post- 

erior extremities of the shell are evidently reversed. 

The horizon of the species is stated by Whitfield to be "Lower Green 

Marls" and the locality "Marlborough, N. 3." The specinlen itself 

is an internal cast of rather dark sand with some larger, lighter colored 

quartz grains, and is very similar in its lithologic characters to some 

portions of the Wenonah sand, from which formation it is quite prob- 

able that the specimen was collected. (Weller) 


WENONAH : 35 

Range outside 'Yew Jersey: Tennessee. 

Type.-Jfarlboro, X. J. NJSN 7670. 

Periplomya elliptica (Gabb) 1861 


Anatina elliptica Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. Vol. for 1861, 

p. 324. 

Periplomya elliptica Whitfield, 1886, p. 177, pl. 23, figs. 14, 15. 

Periplomya truncata \Vhitfield, 1886, p. 220, pl. 2S, figs. 20, 21. 

Veleda nasuta Whitfield, 1886, p. 217, pl. 28, fig. 23. 

Periplomya elliptica, Weller, 1907, p. 522, pl. 57, figs. 8-11. 

Periplomga elliptica, Gardner, 1916, p. 633. 

Periplmya elliptica, Wade, 1926, p. 74, pl. 24, fig. 2. 

Description.-"Shell small, inequivalve, and very inequilateral, 

subovate in outline, largest across the anterior side of the beaks, and 

strongly constricted just behind them, the posterior end being narrowed 

on the hinge-line and excavated at this point. Valves somewhat ventri- 

cose, the right one less convex than the left, and very decidedly de- 



pressed in the central region and toward the basal line, showing a 

decided twist or arcuation of the valves as seen in a basal view. Anterior 

end broadly rounded, and the posterior pointedly rounded. Beaks 

small, appressed, incurved, and apparently directed backward, as is 

usual in this group of shells, from the expansion or inflation of the 

anterior side of the hinge line. Cardinal margin, as seen on the cast, 

inflected both in front and behind the beaks, forming an apparent 

lumule and escutcheon on the cast, probably produced mainly from n 

thickening of the hinge-plate within. Muscular imprints and palial 

line and hinge not observed." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of the specimen illustrated by Whitfield are: 

length, 31 mm.; height, 27.5 mm.; thickness, 10 mm. 

Remarks.-\Vhitfield figured this species from the "Lower Greeli 

mark at Mu!lica Rill and Holmdel." which would indicate a Cretacc- 

nus age. However, Weller believed that this, together with the two 

synonyms, (P. truncata and V. nmuta) of Whitfield are from thr 

Manasquan formation of Eocene age. The fact that the species is known 

from the Cretaceous of Maryland and Tennessee, suggests that a 

Cretaceous dating is preferable. 



MANASQUAN: New Egypt 

Range outside New Jersey : Maryland, Tennessee. 

Type.-blullica Hill, N. J. AXSP 18767. 

Corimya tenuis Whitfield 1886 


Corimya ten& Whitficld, 1886, p. 170, pl. 23, figs. 9-11. 

Corimya tenuis, Weller, 1907, p. 524, pl. 57, figs. 16-18. 

Description.-The dimensions of a nearly perfect internal cast are: 

length, 32.5 mm.; height, 22 mm.; thickness, 10 mm.: the length of the 

largest specimen observed is 37 mm. Shell subellipt.ica1 to broadly tri- 

angularly ovate in outline; the valves unequally depressed convex, the 

right valve flatter than the left. Beaks small, little elevated above the 

hinge-line, nearly central in position. Anterior and posterior cardinal 

margins sloping away from the beak in a broadly obtuse angle; an- . 

terior and posterior margins rounded, the anterior higher than the pos- 

terior; hasal margin broadly convex. Surfaee of the casts marked hy 

more or less indistinct and irregular eoncentric undulations, and in 

some specimens by faint radiating ribs on the anterior slope of the 

shell. In the central portion of the casts, beneath the beak and extend- 

ing further posteriorly than anteriorly, wavy vascular impressions 

can often be seen extending about half way to the ventral margin of 

the shell. Muscular impressions of moderate size, the posterior ones 



more conspicuous than the anterior, and bordered in front by a rather 

deep groove in the casts estending obliquely backward from behind the 

beak towards the posterior margin. 

Remarks.-This species can be easily recognized by the unequal 

convexity of the valves which give to the specimens a slightly bent 

form, and by the conspicuous oblique furrow in front of the posterior 

muscular scars in the casts, which in the interior of the shells themselves 

was a ridge-like thickening of the valve. The species has only been ob- 

served in the form of internal casts and the external surface markings 

are not known. (Weller) 

Ranga in New Jersey- 


MT. IJAUR,EL-NAVESINK: 37, 40, 44, 47, 53 

Type.-Upper Freehold, N. J. ANSP 

Family Clavagellidae 

Clavagella armata Morton 1834 


Clavagella armata, Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Or. U.S., p. 

69, pl. 9, fig. 11. 

Glavagella armata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 192, pl. 25, fig. 24. 

Clavagella armata, Weller, 1907, p. 525, pl. 58, figs. 1-2. 

Clavagella armata, Wade, 1926, p. 75, pl. 24, figs 4-5. 

Clavagella armata, Oroot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 46 

Description.-The dimensions of a complete internal cast of the 

shell, exclusive of the tube, are : length, 14 mm. ; height, 8.5 mm. ; thick- 

ness, 7.5 mm. Shell suhovate in outline; the beaks small, situated a little 

in front of the middle, slightly recurvcd. Anterior ;md posterior mar- 

gins rather sharply rounded; ventral margin convex throughout. The 

anterior margin with several tubnlar spines. Valves rather strongly 

convex, the right one free, the left one attached to the tube. Surface 

of the cast smooth, the muscular in~pressions more or less strongly 

marked, sometimes scarcely distinguishable. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Specimens of this peculiar species are rare in the New 

Jersey collections. The peculiar tubular spines which arm the anterior 

margin of the shell have sometimes been broken from the fossil speci- 

mens. Some specimens have been observed, however, upon which they 

are as clearly shown as upon the type specimen illustrated by Morton. 

The tube, except its very basal portion, is rarely preserved. 



MT. LAUREL-NAVESIAX: 37, 40, 45, 46 

Range outside New Jerse,y: Delaware, Alabama, Tennessee. 

Type.-? 


PELECYPODA 

Family Poromyacidae 

Liopistha prolexta (Conrad) 1853 


Cardium proteztum, Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2d ser., 

vol. 2, p. 275, pl. 24, fig. 12. 

Leiopistha protezta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 140, pl. 20, figs. 1-3. 

LeiopisisCI~a inflata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 142, pl. 20, figs. 6-7. 

Liopistha protezta, Weller, 1907, p. 526, pl. 58, figs. 4-6. 

&pistha protezta, Qardner, 1916, p. 636, pl. 36, fig. 15. 

Liopistha protezta, Stephenson, 1923, p. 250, pl. 65, fig. 3. 

Lbpisthaprotexta, Wade, 1926, p. 75 (part), pl. 24, fig. 6. 

Liopistha protezta, Stephenson, 1941, p. 162, pl. 26, figs. 27-30. 

Liopistha protezta, Qroot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 46, pl. 5, 

fig. 2. 

Description.-The dimensions of a large individual are: length, 

30.5 mm.; height, 22 mm.; thickness, 16.5 mm. Shell, exclusive of the 

projecting beaks, subelliptical in outline. Beaks prominent, situated 

a little in advance of the midlle of the shell, their apices pointed, incurved 

and nearly in contact. Antero-cardinal slope slightly concave ; 

anterior margin sharply rounded; basal margin regularly convex 

throughout; posterior margin rather short, obliquely subtruncate, 

straight or slightly convex; posterior cardinal slope more concave than 

the anterior. Valves ventricose in the umbonal region, the surface 

curving regularly to the margin all around, being more abrupt to the 

cardinal margin, and often somewhat compressed towards the posterocardinal 

extremity; slightly gaping behind. Surface marked by 25 to 

30, and in very large individuals as many as 35, angular, radiating 

costte with concave interspaces, a small area at the posterior extremity 

being nearly or wholly destitute of ribs. External impressions of the 

shell show these ribs to be crossed by fine concentric lines of growth, 

and to be surmounted along the summit by a row of small tubercles 

appearing almost like spine bases, whose distance apart is less than 

the distance between adjacent costte; the radiating rows of tubercles 

also continue across the posterior noncostate portior. of the shell. 

Remarks.-This is the commonest member of the genus in New 

Jersey and occurs, so far as knomi, only in the form of internal casts 

with their external impressions. The delicate surface markings of the 

shell can only be seen in impressions of the external surface, and only 

occasionally in these because of the imperfection of their preservation. 

Whitfield's L. inflata is certainly a synonym of this species; it is said 

to be shorter, with more inflated beaks, and less sharply defined costre, 

but these differences are nothing more than individual variations. 



More periect individuals are known from the Cretaceous south of 

New Jersey. 


BIERCHBNTVILLE : 15 

WENONAH : 35 

hfT. LAUREL-NAVESINE : 37.40, 46,47, 57 

RED BANK: 59 

TINTON: 60, 61 


South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Georgia. 

1'ypo.-Burlington County, N.J. ; ANSP; 16871. 

Liopistha alternata Weller 1907 


Lbpistha alternata, Weller, 1907, p. 527, pl. 58, figs. 7-9. 

Liopistl~a alternata, Gardner, 1916, p. 637. 

Liopistha alternata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 46. 

Descrlptwn.-The dimensions of an average left valve are: length, 

22 mm.; height, 15.5 mm.; eonvesity, 7 mm. The shell, exclusive of 

the projecting beaks is subelliptical in outline. The beaks are central, 

or in some specimens apparently a little back of the center, their apices 

pointed, elevated above the hinge-line, strongly incurvetl and nearly 

or quite in contact. Antero-cardinal slope slightly concave or nearly 

straight; anterior margin rather sharply rounded, basal margin broadly 

and regularly convex; posterior margin rather sharply rounded 

above to the posterior extremity of the hinge-line; post-cardinal slope 

more concave than the anterior. Valves ventricose or inflated in thc 

umhonal region, the surface curving abruptly to the cardinal margin, 

convex to the anterior and ventral margins, more or less compresserl 

to the postero-cardinal estremity ; slightly gaping posteriorly. Surface 

marked with 40 or more angular, radiating costie in adult shells, the 

alternate ones being conspicuously larger. 'Phc sma!ler costa are intercalated 

between the larger ones and do not reach the beak, so that in 

very young shells tlie alternation of costre does not exist; upon the 

posterior, more or less compressed portion of thc valves the eost;e are 

nearly or quite obsolete. Distinct impressions of the external surface 

of the shells, show them to he marked by fine:indistinct lines of growth ; 

they also show eaeh cost=, both the larger ones and the smaller ones, 

to be surniounted by a row of fine tubercles or short spines, whose distance 

apart is less than the spaces between the costre, the radiating. 

lines of tubercles are also present upon the posterior non-costate portion 

of the shell. 

R~marl6s.-This species can be easily distinguished from I;. protezta 

by the alternating costre and the more central position of the beaks. 


PESFCYPODA 169 

These two species have never been observed associated in the same 

fauna, L. alternata being characteristic of the Merchantville. whilc 1,. 

protexta is especially characteristic of the Navesink. (Weller) 



Range ontsirle A'ow Jerse!,: Dcla\\rare, nlaryland. 

Type.-Mataman, N. J. NJSM 7759; near Jarneshnrg, N. J. 

NJSM 8953 (cotypes). 

Liopisfha kummeli Weller 1907 


Liopistha kunlmeli Wcller, 1907, p. 529, pl. 58, fig. 3. 

Description.-The dimensions of a large right valve are: length, 21 

mm. ;height,l5 mm. ;convexity, 4.5 mm. Shell ~ubovate in outlinc,heaks 

central or a little in advance of the center, strongly incnrved ; anterocardinal 

margin curving gently downmard anteriorly from beneath 

the beak and passing regularly into the broadly rounded anterior margin; 

basal margin broadly rounclerl, becoming straighter posteriorly 

and sloping upward to the most posterior extremity of the shell which 

is above the mid-height; posterior extremity rather sharply rounded 

into the post-cardinal margin which is straight and horizontal. Surface 

marked by about 20, simple, subangular, radiating costre, subequal 

in size, but becoming somewhat smaller anteriorly; upon the 

cardinal slopes the costre become much fainter or even obsolete, thc 

smooth area being brhader behind than in front; upon the umho and 

towards the beak, more or less faint concentric undulations cross the 

radiating ribs, hut these becomc obsolete before reaching the middle 

of the shell in adult examples; impressions of the exterior show in addition 

to the radial and concentric markings already described, fine concentric 


Remarks.-This species differs from Z. alternata which occurs in 

the same horizon, in the absence of the alternating costre, and in the 

presence of the concentric undulations towards the beak. It agrees 

more nearly with L. protexta from the Navesink marl, but the radiating 

costre are coarser and less numerous, and that species also lacks the 

concentric undulations. In the presence of these concentric undulations, 

the species approaches the members of the genus Cymella in 

which the concentric markings arc more conspicnous than the radial, 

hut the much stronger radial markings suggests a closer relationship 

to the members of the genus Liopistha. (Weller) 

Range in Xew Jersey- 


Range m~tsirle NEW Jersey: Delaware. 

Type.-Lenola, N. J. KJSM 7757. 



Cymella bella texana Stephenson 1941 


Cymella meeki, Whitfield, 1886, (part) p. 142, pl. 20, figs. 6, 7. 

Cymella bella, Weller, 1907, p. 530, pl. 58, figs. 10-12. 

Liopistha (Cymella) bella, Stephenson, 1923, p. 253, pl. 65, figs. 4-8. 

Cymella bella texana Stephenson, 1941, p. 165, pl. 26, figs. 21-23. 

Cymella bella var., Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 46, pl. 5, 

fig. 3. 

~escri~tiom.-"shell of moderate size, transvereely oval or ovate, 

about once and a half as long as high. Valvcs strongly convex, with 

large, somelvhat prominent beaks, situated much nearer the anterior 

end. Shell nearly erect, and a little wicler at the anterior end than 

behind. Extremities of the valves nearly equally rounded and the base 

regularly curved. Cardinal line long behind the beaks, and the margin 

inflected forming a narrov, linear, escutcheon-like area. Surface of 

the shell marked by strong and regularly rounded and regularly in- 

creasing undulations parallel to the border of th? valves. These are 

crossed by dist,ant radiating ribs, which are strona and vertical in the 

middlc of the valvc or opposite the beaks, and become gradually faint- 

er and finer toward the posterior end, apparently becoming obsolete 

just below the cardinal border, and also before reaching the anterior 

cardinal margin. Thcse radiating ribs, on the central parts of the 

shell especially, cut up the surface into rounded nodes by forming de- 

pressions across the concentric undulations. Surface of the shell and 

hinge-structure not seen, as thc specimen* are all in the condition of 

casts in a fine micaceous marl." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of a large left valve are: length, 41 mm.; height. 

27.5 mm., convexity, 9.5 mm. 

Remar1rs.-Stephenson (1923, p. 254) called attention to the fact 

that the New Jersey specimens had broader coste? and narrower inter- 

spaces than the true C. bella. The varietal name texana was given to 

very similar forms in Texas and it seems desirable to use this name for 

the Xcv Jersey specimens. 

Range im New Jersey- 

' MAGOTEIY : ? 6 

illERCHANTVILLE : 9 8 

WOODBURY: 18,19, 24 

WENONAH: 35 

Range ot~tside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, 

Mississippi, Texas. 

Type.-Texas; USNM 76517. 


PELECYPODA 

Cymella undata (Meek G; Hayden) 1856 


Pholadomya undata Meek & Hayden, 1856, Proc. Bead. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

p. 81. 

Cymella undata, Weller, 1907, p. 531, pl. 58, fig. 13. 

Description.-"Shell transversely broad-ovate, approaching sub- 

trigonal, moderately gibbous; anterior end rounded; posterior side 

narrower and a little more compressed, rounded chiefly from belolv: 

base forming a regular semiovate curve; dorsal margin sloping rathcr 

abruptly in front of the beaks, straighter and declining more gradually 

behind; hinge-margins straight, and inflected so as to form a mell- 

defined false area both behind and a little in front'of the beaks, whiell 

are somewhat elevated, ineurved at right angles to the hinge-line, and 

located a little in advance of the middle of the shell. Surface ornament- 

ed by about 17 to 20 of the simple, rounded, rather strong, regular, eon- 

centric undulations, which are broader than the depressions between, . 

and, as it were, cut by the radiating linear furrows, on the central 

region of each valve, into about the same number of much smallel., 

simple, radiating costre, less than, or nearly equaling, the furrows by 

which they are separated." (Meek.) 

The dimensions of the only specimen observed, a left valve, are: 

length, 16.5 mm.; height, 12 mm.; convexity, 3.5 mm. 

Remarks.-This species is represented in the New Jersey collections 

by a single individual which agrees very closely with Meek's descrip- 

tion and illustration of the species. In only one respect is there any 

marked difference, and that probably not essential, the number of fine 

radiating, linear furrows being greater and occupying a wider space 

on the central portion of the shell. About 30 of these furrows can be 

clearly distinguished and exceedingly faint ones seem to extend still 

further towards the posterior and anterior extremities. The shell is 

associated with C. bella, but is clearly distinct from it by reason of the 

much finer radiating markings, and there are no intermediate forms 

connecting the two species. (Weller) 


WENONAH : 35 

Range outside New Jersey: "Western Interior" including 

Nebraska, South Dakota. 

Type.-Mouth of Judith River, Nebraska; USNM 187. 



Family Cuspidariidae 

Cuspidaria ventricosa (Meek & Hayden) 1856 


Corbula venfricosa Meek & Hayden, 1856, Pro,:. bead. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

vol. 8, p. 83. 

Cuspidaria ventricosa, Weller, 1907, p. 533, pl. 58, figs. 16-17. 

Descriptio~a.-"Shell small, nearly or quite equivalve, rather thin, 

very ventricose in the anterior and central regions; anterior margin 

somewhat narrowly rounded; base very deeply rounded toward the 

front, contracted behind; posterior side longer than the other, narrowl 

compressed and rostriform; dorsnm doping gradually with a concave 

outline behind the beaks, declining more abruptly in front; beaks 

prominent, apparently equal not ohliqne, located a little in advance 

of the middle; pallialborder smooth; surface marked by rather concentric 

striz." (Meek.) 

The dimensions of a single valve are: length, 13 mm.; height, 

7 mm. ; convexity, 2.7 mm. 

Remar1cs.-llll the examples of this species observed in New Jersey ' 

are casts, and these have frequently been more or less distorted in the 

soft clays and sands xvhere they occur. The form and size of tho shell, 

however, agrees well with those described by Meek from the Fox Hills 

and Pierre faunas of the west, and there can be no doubt as to their 

identity. (Weller) 


WENONAH : 35 

RED BANK: 59, 60 

TINTON: 62 

Range o~cfsidc NEW derncy: South Dakota, Nebraska. 

Type.-Morciin River, Nebraska ; USNM 419. 

Cuspidaria jerseyensis Weller 1907 


Czlspidaria jerseyensis Weller, 1907, p. 534, pl. 58, figs. 14-15. 

Description.-Shell large for the genus, the dinlensions of the type 

specimen being: length, 25.5 mm.; height, 17 mm.; thickness, 13.7 mm. 

TTentricose in the anterior and central region, compressed and rostri. 

form posteriorly ; the beaks incnrved, directed backward, situated cen- 

trally, the right one a little in advance of the left. Fmm the beaks the 

anterior margin slopes gently downward in front, passing into the 

broadly rounded anterior margin, which in turn passes without inter- 

ruption into the basal margin which is gently rounded anteriorly, be- 

coming straighter posterior!?. as it slopes upward to meet the cardinal 



margin in an obscure acute angle, the posterior margin restricted to the 

sharply rounded rostrate extremity of the shell, the post-cardinal mar- 

gin concave just behind the beaks, becoming straight posteriorly. Sur- 

face of the internal east marked by regular, rounded, concentric un- 

dulations a little less than one millimeter apart, and by very obscure 

radiating lines. 

Remarks.-This species is based upon a single nearly complete in- 

ternal cast from New Jersey and a second less perfect specimen from 

Alabama. The species differs from C. ventricosa, in its larger size, its 

more nearly central beaks, and in its concentric markings. (Weller) 

Range in New Jerseg- 


Type.-Crt~vfords Corner, N. J. XJSJZ 7568. 

Family Pleurophoridae 

Veniella conradi Iforton 1833 

Plate 26, Figure 11 ; Plate 28, Figures 3,5; Plate 29, Figure 14 

Venilia conradi Morton, 1833, Am. Jour. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 23, p. 294, 

pl. 8, figs. 1-2. 

Venilia trigono Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil., p. 324. 

Goniosoma inflata Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 44, pl. 1, 

fig. 10. 

Venilia elevata Conrad, 1870, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 6, p. 74, pl. 3, 

figs. 7-7a. 

Veniella conrarli, Whitfield, 1886, p. 144, pl. 19, figs. 8-10. 

Veniella inflata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 147, pl. 19, figs. 4-5. 

Veniella elevata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 148, pl. 19, figs. 6-7. 

Veniella trigona, Whitfield, 1886, p. 149, pl. 19, figs. 11-14. 

Veniella conradi, IVeller, 1907, p. 534, pl. 58, figs. 18-19. 

Veniella trigona, Weller, 1907, p. 537, pl. 59, figs. 1-3. 

17eniella conradi, Gardner, 1916, p. 643, pl. 38, figs. 2-7. 

Veniella conradi, Stephenson, 1923, p. 257, pl. 66, figs. 1-5. 

Veniella conradi, Wade, 1926, p. 77, pl. 24, figs. 14-16. 

Veniella conradi, Stephenson, 1941, p. 168, pl. 27, figs. 6-8. 

Veniella conradi, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 46. 

Description.--The dimensions of an average sized left valve are: 

length, 26 mm.; height, 23 mm.; convexity, 12 mm. Shell subtrape- 

zoidal in outline. Hinge-line rather strongly curved. Anterior mar- 

gin straight above, sloping obliquely forward, sharply rounding into 

the basal margin below; basal margin gently convex, becoming 

straighter posteriorly; postero-basal extremity angular; posterior 



margin obliquely truncate; postero-cardinal extremity obtusely augu- 

lar, becoming rounder in the larger individuals; postero-cardinal 

margin rather long, straight or slightly convex. Valves very ventri- 

cose, with a sharply angular, curved umbonal ridge. Beaks situated 

nearly as far front as the anterior extremity of the shell, incurved 

and directed forward. Post-umboual slope abrupt, with a shallow 

sinus extending from the beak to the posterior margin of the shell, 

and a low subangular ridge curving from the beak to the postero- 

cardinal extremity; anterior slope convex from the umbonal ridge 

forward, the curvature of the surface becoming much more abrupt 

as it approaches the anterior margin. Surface of the shell marked 

by several, strong, concentric varices which become more remote away 

from the beak, and upon very large individuals become obsolete upon 

the outer portion of the shell; they are produced into broad, lamellar 

extensions of the shell and do not continue across the post-umbonal 

slope. The shell surface is also marked by more or less irregular con- 

centric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This is one of the long range species in the New Jersey 

faunas, and is liable to occur at any horizon from the Merchantville 

to the Tinton. The species does not usually attain so large a size in 

Xew Jersey as it sometimes does in some of the southern localities, 

although individuals 30 mm. in height are sometimes met with The 

little shell from Haddonfield described by Conrad as V. elevata is only 

a young individual of V. conradi, and the,same author's Goniosomo 

inflata is an internal cast of the same. The species occurs most abuud- 

antly in the Dferchantville, Marshalltown, and Wenonah formations, 

being rare in the Woodbury. The only place where the shells them- 

selves have been collected in the State is from the Marshalltown clay- 

marl near Swcdesboro. (Weller) 



WOODBURY: 20, 22, 24 

WENONAH : 34, 35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINIC: 37, 40, 46, 53 


TINTON: 62 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, District of 

Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, 

Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas. 

Type.-(7. conradi) New Jersey 

(V. inflata) Crosswicks, N. J.; ANSP 18786 

(V. elevata) Haddonfield, N. J.; ANSP 18785 

(V. trigona) labelled Boonton, N. J. which is obviously 

wrong; ANSP 18787. 



Veniella IEtea) carolinensis var. aspera Stephenson 1923 


Etea carolinensis Weller, 1907, p. 541, pl. 59, figs. 4-6 (not of Conrad 

1875). 

Veniella carolinensis aspera Stephenson, 1923, p. 266, pl. 66, figs. 13-15 

Description.-Proportionally shorter and higher than Veniella 

carolinensis Conrad ', with more prominent umhones, more sharply 

defined umbonal ridges, coarser surface sculpture and more strongly 

sinuous on the posterior margin. 

Remarks.-According to Stephenson, these characters are eon- 

stant suggesting that this might be given specific rather than varietal - 

rank. However since larger eolleetions may show intergradation, it 

seems best to regard this as a variety. V. carolinensis aspera is closely 

allied to V. trapezoidea (Conrad) from the Merehantville clay of New 

Jersey, but is a little more elongated and more broadly rounded where 

the posterior margin passes into the dorsal margin. 



Range outside New Jersey: North Carolina 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. ; USNM 7715; paratypes (7) ANSP 2299. 

Veniella IEtea) trapezoidea Conrad 1860 

Plate 28, Figures 8,9; Plate 29, Figures 7,15 

Venilia trapeeoiden Conrad, 1860. Jour. Aead. Nat. Sei. Phil., 2nd 

ser., vol. 4, p. 282, pl. 47, fig. 7. 

Crassatella rnonmontl~ensis Gabb, 1860, Jour. Aead. Nat. Sei. Phil., 

2nd ser., vol. 4, p. 302, pl. 48, fig. 19. 

Crassatclla lineata Shumard, 1862, Proe. Bost. Soe. Nat. Hist., vol. 8, 

p. 201. 

Veniella subovalis Whitfield, 1886, p. 150, p1. 19, figs. 1-2. 

Veniella trapezoidea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 151, pl. 19, fig. 3. 

Etea trapezoidea, Weller, 1907, p. 543, pl. 58, figs. 20-21; pl. 59, fig. 7. 


26 mm. ; height, 18 mm. The specimens sometimes attain a length of 

30 mm. or more. Shell very oblique and inequilateral, subtrapezoidal 

to suhelliptical in outline, the beaks situated about one-third the 

length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Anterior margin 

rounding into the basal margin; basal margin convex anteriorly and 

sometimes throughout, often somewhat gibbous in the middle, and usu- 

ally slightly sinuateposteriorly; postero-basal extremity acutely sub- 

- 

1K.m" Geol. North Carolina, Appendix, p. 6, pl. 1, fig. 14. 



angular, posterior margin obliquely truncate, the postero-dorsal mar- 

gin straight or slightly curved, sloping from the beak to the posterior 

hinge extremity, where it meets the truncated posterior margin in an 

obtuse angle. Valves with an angular or mhcarinate umbonal ridge 

passing from the beak to the postero-ventral extremity of the shell ; 

in front of the umbonal ridge is a more or less obscure depression 

or broad shallow sinus, which passes obliquely backward from the 

beak to the sinuosity in the ventral margin. The postero-dorsal slope 

concave to the cardinal margin, where the surface is inflected to form 

the escutcheon. In front of the beak the surface of the shell is in- 

flected to form the rather large lunule. In the casts the muscular im- 

pressions are of moderate size, inconspicuous or somewhat strongly 

marked, and the free margins are not crenate. Surface of the shell 

marked by concentric lines of growth which vary in the strength 

of their development. 

Remarks.-This specific form seems to have been described under 

several names hy different authors, Conrad's name trapezoidea having 

priority. The types of the species Venaia trapemidea, Crassatella 

monmouthensis and Veniella subovalis have all been carefully studied 

in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of Science. The speci- 

mens indicated as types of C. manmouthensis are'four in number; the 

smallest of these has "type" marked on it in ink, and seems to be 

different from the other three; it has the shell preserved, and from its 

lithologic character seems to have come from one of the marl beds, 

probably the Navesink; this smaller specimen is apparently not the 

one which was illustrated by Qabb. The three larger individuals 

agree with the original illustration of the species in all essential 

characters, and one of them was doubtless used as the original for 

the figure; these specimens apparently came from the Merchantville 

formation, and are identical with I', trapezoidea and with the Mer- 

chantville clay specimens in the recent collections of the Survey. 

Whitfield's Voniclla .mbovalis is certainly a member of the same species, 

although its posterior margin is somewhat higher and more nearly 

vertical than the others. The type of Cvassatella lineata has not 

been seen, but the species is represented in the National Museum at 

Washington by numerous examples from the type locality, and it is 

unquestionably specifically identical with the Alabama and New 

Jersey specimens. An examination of a large number of individuals 

of this species shows considerable variation in some respects, notably 

in the height of the posterior truncated margin, and in the curvature 

of the basal margin, which is sometimes slightly sinuate posteriorly 

and again nearly straight or slightly convex. The species resembles 

E. carolinemis, but it is a shorter shell with a higher posterior margin ; 

the two forms are certainly cogeneric, however, and if it is advisable 

to recognize Etea at all as distinct from Veniella, both should he 

placed in that genus. (Weller) 


PELECYPODA 


MERCBANTVILLE: 8, 10, 15, 16, 17 

WOODBURY: 20 


Type.-(7. t~apezoiha) Eufaula, Ala. 

(C, monmouthensis) Monmouth County, N. J. ANSP 

18738. 

(C. subovalis) Crosswicks, N. J.; ANSP 18788. 

Etea delawarensis (Gabb) 1860 

Plate 28, Figure 4; Plate 29, Figure 11 ; Plate 31, Figure 1 

Crassatella delawarensis Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd 

ser. vol. 4, p. 303, pl. 48, fig. 20. 

Etea delawarewis, Conrad, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nal. Sci. Phila. for 1876 

p. 275 

Crassatella delawarensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 210, pl. 27, figs. 14-15. 

Etea delawarensis, \Teller, 1907, p. 546, pl. 59, figs. 8-9. 

Description.-The dimensions of a nearly perfect specimen are: 

length, 26 mm.; height, 19.5 mm.; thickness, 12.5 mm. Shell cuneately 

subovate or subtriangular in outline, highest in front, the beaks elevat- 

ed, rather small, ineurved, situated betmeen one-third and one-fourth 

the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Antero-cardinal 

margin rather long, nearly straight or slightly concave; sloping steeply 

forward from the beaks; anterior margin rather narrowly rounding 

into the basal margin; basal margin gently convex anteriorly and 

straight or slightly concave posteriorly ; postero-basel extremity sharp- 

ly rounded or subangular; posterior margin slightly convex, obliquely 

truncate; postero-cardinal margin long and straight, joining the pos- 

terior margin in an obtusely rounded angle. From the beak to the 

postero-basal angle, a rather broadly rounded umbonal ridge extends in 

a nearly straight line ; the postero-cardinal slope is nearly flat posterior- 

ly, becoming a little convex towards the beak; the cardinal margin is 

sharply inflected to form the sides of the narrcw but rather deeply 

excavated escutcheon. In front of the umbonal ridge the shell is flat- 

tened or slightly sinuate from the beak obliquely backward to the 

basal margin; in front of the beak the shell i~ inflected along the 

eardiual margin to form the rather broad, concave lunule. Surface of 

the shell marked with moderately fine, but rather strong and regular 

concentric lines of growth, which become obsolescent back of the nm- 

bonal ridge. 

In the internal casts the beaks are more prominent, erect and 

rather widely separate, the shell is rather more pointed posteriorly 

and the muscular and pallial impressions are of moderate strength. 

(Weller) 



Remarks.-The type specimen is labelled in Gabh's handwriting 

"Cross~vicks, X. 3." with the notation "this species is common also in 

1)eliiware." In the text Gabb cites "deep cut, Delaware and Chesapeake 

Canal" as the locality of the species. Both Whitfield and Weller 

questioned the locality record since the specimens which they referred 

to this species all came from the Man:~squan formation (Eocene) 

while Gabb's referenee to Crosswiclrs would indicate the Cretaceous, 

probably the IVoodbury. 

In addition to the type specimen, the Academy has eight other 

specimens from Crosswieks. The species is also known from several 

localities in the Eocene (Clementon, well at Interlaken, Pemberton, 

and near Farmingdale). 

Conrad placed the species in the genus Etea, although the sculp- 

- 

tnre and hinge teeth are not distinct. 


WOODBURY (9) 20 

DIANASQUAN : (Eoeene) 

Geloina ? tenuidens (Whitfield) 1886 

Plate, 40, Figure 2; Plate 41, Figure 1 ; Plate 45, Figure 15 

Gnathodon P tenuidens Whitfield, 1886, p. 27, pl. 2, figs. 7-10. 

12anyia f tenuidens, Weller, 1907, p. 635, pl. 73, figs. 6-8. 

Zlanyia f tenuidens, Richards, 1943, Proc. Bead. Nat. Sci. Phil. p. 21, 

pl. 4, fig. 2, pl. 5, fig. 1. 

Geloina ? tenuidens, Stephenson, 1954, p. 32, pl. 7, figs. 10-14. 

Description.-"Shell of moderate size, very vcntrieose, very broad- 

ly ovate or subtriangular, with strong and rather tumid, enrolled 

beaks, which are directed forward and project considerably beyond 

the line of the hinge. Posterior hinge border gently arcuate, extending 

more than two-thirds of the distance from the beak toward the basal 

margin of the shell. Postero-basal angle sharply rounded, and the 

basal margin broadly arched; anterior end less sharply and more 

regularly rounded than the postero-basal. Surface of the shell, as in- 

dicated on the partial casts and imprints left in the hardened clay, 

smooth or marked by fine lines of growth only. On the east of a right 

valve thei-e are indications of tnro principal cardinal teeth beneath 

the beak, and a long rather slender, lateral tooth. The muscular im- 

pressions are not visible on the posterior side, but on one specimen 

the anterior scars seem to have been large and deep ; but this feature 

is not very satisfactorily determined." (mitfield.) 

Remarks.-Described from casts and consequently the generic de- 

termination has been questioned. Stephenson, on the basis of incom- 

plete hinges, tentatively transferred the species to the genus Geluinu. 



a recent genus of the Philippine seas. He adds the following descrip- 

tion : 

"The imprint of the hinge as partly preserved shows 3 well-de- 

veloped cardinal teeth in the left valve (pl. 7, fig. ll), of mhieh the 

middle one is thick, prominent,' apparently faintly bifid, and some- 

what oblique to the rear; the anterior one is smaller, trigonal, and 

nearly direct; the posterior one is narrow, very oblique, and less 

prominent than the middle one. A deep, narrow, trigonal socket 

separates the anterior from the middle cardinal, and a long, deep, 

oblique trigonal socket separates the middle from the posterior 

eardinal. There is evidence of an approximate anterior lateral tooth 

about 5 mm long and some evidence of a distant lateral posterior. 

A rubber east made from the imprint just described (pl. 7, fig. 12) 

shows in the right valve a well-developed oblique bifid posterior 

cardinal, and a short, narrow, nearly direct tooth separated from the 

posterior one by a deep, wide, trigonal socket; in front of the second 

tooth is a somewhat shallower trigonal socket, beyond which, toward 

the front, the features of the hinge are not clearly shown; there is 

probably an anterior cardinal." 


RARITAN : la 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. NJSM 8839. 

Ambocardia cookii Whitfield 1886 


Ambocardia cookii Whitfield, 1886, p. 25, pl. 2, figs. 11-14. 

Ambocaria cookii, Weller, 1907, p. 548, pl. 60, figs. 1-2. 

Ambocardia cookii, Richards, 1943, Proe. Aead. Nat. Sei. Phila, vol. 95, 

p. 21, pl. 4, fig. 1. 

Description.-"Shell large and ponderous, mith heavy, massive, 

incurved beaks, which are strongly enrolled and situated near the 

anterior end of the shell. Valves very gibbous, very inequilateral and 

transverse, strongly cuneate in a cardinal view when united, being 

extremely ventrieose opposite the beaks and gradually but rapidly 

decreasing in depth toward the posterior end; obliquely ovate in 

outline, with a short, obtusely pointed anterior end, straight but short 

cardinal line; prolonged hut obtusely rounded posterior end; basal 

line strongly curved, rapidly declining from the anterior end, and 

distinctly sinuate near the middle of the shell by a broad, shallow, 

but well-defined oblique suleus, which passes from the beak to the 

basal margin just in front of the strongly rounded and prominent 

umbonal ridge. External ligament strongly marked, and extending 

the length of the posterior cardinal line and deeply imbedded in a 

narrow escutcheon. Lunule large and deep, strongly defined, with 

sharply angular margins. Substance of the shell thick and dense, and 



the surface marked with close comparatively strong concentric lines 

or ridges, and apparently with a thick epidermis. Anterior muscular 

scar large and deep, situated close to the margin in the pointed 

anterior end. Other muscular imprints not determined and the 

features of the hinge are as yet unlinown. Pallial line apparently 

simple." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Whitfield based his genus Amfionknrdia on some large 

internal casts of this species. Superficially they resemble a Unio but 

the position of the muscular impression and the lack of lateral hinge 

teeth precludes its reference to that genus. A number of specimens 

have been found, but in none are the features oE the external shell 

preserved. Not represented in recent collections. 

Ranyc in NEW Jersey- 

RARITAN: 1, 2, 3 

Type.-Sayrerille, N. J. NJShl 7790. 

Family Astartidae 

Astarte veta Conrad 1869 

Plate 40, Figure 9 ; Plate $1, Figure 4 

Astarte veta Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 4, p. 279, pl. 20, 

fig. 4. 

Astarte ueta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 23, pl. 2, fig. 1. 

Astarto veta, Weller, 1907, p. 549, pl. 60, fig. 3. 

Astarte veta, Richards, 1943, p. 19, pl. 4, fig. 9; pl. 5, fig. 4. 

Descripfio?~.-"Mr. Conrad described this species'as 'Ovate, from 

ventral margin to beak, compressed, equilateral; beaks prominent, 

oblique; itnterior ventral margin ronnded ,posterior obliquely truncated; 

posterior, end truncated and situated much above the line of 

the base (cast).' In comparison he says, 'this species is nearly allied 

to, if not identical with, Astarte Triasina, Dnnker.' 

"I have not been able to obtain specimens agreeing with the above 

description, nor to find the type specimen used by Mr. Conrad. The 

form of t,he &hell ~vould indicate that it belonged to the genns Astarte, 

but beyond t,hat there appears to be no real evidence of its generic relations 

more than there is to other species found in these clays. The 

outline of the shell might suggest that it mas a young individual of 

what I hare herein called Onathodon tenuidenc, but the apparent. 

want of gibbosity wonld not agree. So for the present at least the 

species will have to be left as it is." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-The type has been located in the Academy of Natural 

Sciences, but no further suggestions can be offered regarding the 

relationship of the species. It does superficially resemble the German 



A. triasina Roemer, although even its position within the genus Astarte 

is open to question beenuse the hinge is not visible in the New Jersey 

shell. 


RARITAN : 4 

Type.-Washington (now South River), N. J. ANSP 14360. 

Astarte ? annosa Conrad 1869 


Astarte annosa Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 4, p. 279, pl. 20, 

fig. 5. 

Astorte annosa Conrad, 1870 Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 227. 

Corbicnla ? annosa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 26, pl. 2, figs. 2-4. 

Corbieula ? annosa, Weller, 1907, p. 563, pl. 62. figs. 1-3. 

Astarte ? annosa, Richards, 1943, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. vol. 95, 

p. 20, pl. 4, fig. 8. 

Descriptio?a.-"Suborbicular, eonrex, very inequilateral, ventral 

and anterior margins regularly and nearly equally rounded ; posterior 

end truncated, direct (cast)." (Conrad). 

Remarks.-Conrad's type has apparently been lost. Whitfield re- 

ferred two specimens to this species and suggested that it should be 

placed in the genus Cmbienla. However, a ea-eful comparison of 

these specimens with Conrad's description and figure suggests that 

Whitfield did not have Conrad's species. This opinion was concurred 

in by Dr. Stephenson, who kindly examined Whitfield's material. It 

therefore seems desirable to retain the name Astorte ? annosa for Con- 

rad's species, which it is hoped will eventually be located. Whitfield's 

two specimens were given the new name of Cbrbicula ? whitfieldi. 

(Richards, 1943) 


RARITAN: 4 

Typo.-TfTashington (Sonth ltivcr), N. J.; lost. 

Opis ? elevafa biangulata Stephenson 1954 


Opis ? elevata binagnlata Stephenson, 1954, p. 32, pl. 7, figs. 15, 16 

"This varietal form is represented by 3 relatively small incomplete 

internal molds, 2 right valves and 1 left valve, from the southern pit 

of the New Jersey Clay Products Co. (USGS 19014). 

Shell subtriangular in outline, strongly inflated, inequilateral, 

equivalve, with the umbonal region high and narrow. Both the antero- 

dorsal and posterodorsal slopes are abruptly steep; the former forms 



an angular junction with the main surface near the beak, becoming 

subangular to sharply rounded away from the beak; and the latter 

forms an angle (= umbonal ridge) with the main surface from the 

beak to the posterior extremity. Beaks very prominent, strongly incurved, 

prosogyratc. Impressions on the main surface of the holotype 

show the presence of small, closely spaced, fairly regular concentric 

ribs. 

In form, outline, and surface features this variety is obviously 

closely related to the typical O.? eleaata Stephenson (1952, p. 96, pl. 

22: figs. 2-6). In the latter the umbonal ridge is sharply angular and 

the anterodorsal slope consistently rounds over into the main lateral 

surface in the five available examples. In this varietal form the umbonal 

ridge is angular and the anterodorsal slope joins the main surface 

at a sharp or somewhat rounded angle, as consistently shown by 

the three examples. In addition the varietal form is narrower in the 

umbonal region. 

Dimensions of the holotypc, a right valve: L~ngth (estimated) 23 

mm, height about 24 mm, convexity 12 mm. 

The hinge and other internal features are not preserved in the 

available material." (Stephenson) 

Bango in Few Jcrsoy- 

RARITAK: lb 

Eriphyla decemnaria (Conmd) 18fi!l 


Gouldia deeentnaria Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 48, pl. 9 

fig. 4. 

Gouldia decentnark, Whitfield, 1886, p. 124, pl. 18, fig. 4. 

Eriphyla deeon~naria, IVeller, 1907, p. 551, pl. 60, fig. 9. 

Description.-"Shell minute, subquadrangular in outline and hut 

slightly convex. Anterior and cardinal margins nearly at right angles 

with each other, the posterior and cardinal margins being rounded. 

Surface marked by very prominent, thickened, concentric ribs, parallel 

to the border of the valve, and separated by smooth, flattened inter- 

spaces. Hinge-structure and other internal characters unknown." 

(Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-Rare and not found in recent collections. 


WOODBURY: 24 




~ri~hyla declivis (Conrad) 1869 


Gouldia declivis Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 48, pl. 9. 

fig. 5. 

Gouldia declivis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 126, pl. 18, fig. 11. 

EripJqyla declivis, Weller, 1907, p. 551, pl. 60, fig. 10. 

Description.-"Minute, triangular, compressed, equilateral, sum- 

mit acute; posterior extremity angular, disk with numerous very 

regular, close concentric lines." (Conrad.) 

Remarks.-The type specimen of this species seems to have been 

lost or destroyed, and no others have been met with in any of the more 

recent collections. The original specimen was only about 2 mm. or a 

little less in width. The description given above is Conrad's original 

definition of the species. 


WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. Lost. 

Eriphyla parilis (Conrad) 1853 


Astarte parilk Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 2, p. 276, pl. 24, fig. 16. 

Gouldia parilis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 126, pl. 18, fig. 12. 

Eriphyla parilis, Weller, 1907, p. 552, pl. 60, fig. 11. 

Description.-"Small, triangular, equilateral, compressed; basal 

margin regularly rounded ; angles of the end margins situated at about 

equal distances from the apex and base; disk concentrically undulated." 

(Conrad.) 

Remarks.-The above is Conrad's original dehition of the species. 

The type specimen in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of 

Sciences is so badly injured that its true characters cannot be recognized. 

The specimen illustrated by Whitfield as a probable member of 

the species is only an impression of the anterior portion of a Trigonia, 

probably T. eufatilensis. No specimens have been found in any recent 

collections mhich can be referred to this species. . 


MOUNT LAUREL-NAVESINE : Arneytown 

Type.-Arneytomn, N. J. ; AKSP 18732 (missing) 



Vetericardia crenalirata (Conrad) 1860 


Astarte crenalirata Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 282, pl. 46, fig. 25. 

Vetericardia crent~lirata, Whitfield, 1856, p. 128, pl. 18, figs. 5-7. 

Vetericardia crennlirata, Weller, 1907, p. 566, pl. 62, figs. 9-10. 

Vetericardia crendirata, Wade, 1926, p. 78, pl. 24, figs. 12-13. 

Description.-"Shell small, not exceeding one-fourth of an inch 

in length in adult individuals, subtriangular or broadly subelliptical 

in outline, with very ventricose valves and proportionally large, snb- 

ereet beaks, which are situated a little in advance of the middle. Sur- 

face marked by from 13 to 18 concentric variees, according to the size 

of the shell, whieh gradually increase in strength with increased 

growth of the shell. They heeome obsolete at the margin of the propor- 

tionally large and deeply impressed llinule. Interspaces flattened at 

the bottom and about as wide as the sharply elevated varices. There 

are also fine, hut distinct elevated radiating lines crossing the ridges 

and interspaces, becoming much stronger on the spaces than on the 

ridges. In the interior the muscular imprints are faintly marked and of 

moderate size, and the margin of the valves is strongly and deeply 

crenulated by the radiating ridges. Hinge-plate moderately strong and 

the teeth well marked." (Whitfield.) 

Rentarks.-Abundant at Haddonfield, N. J. The genus is wide- 

spread throughout the Cretaeeous of the world. 



WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-Eufaula, Alabama. 

Crassatellites carolinensis Conrad 1875 


Crassatella carolinensis Conrad, 1575, in Kerr, Oeol. Snrv. North 

Carolina Rept. App. A, p. 6, pl. 2, fig. 24. 

Crassatella carolinensis Stephenson, 1923, p. 269, pl. 66, figs. 16, 17. 

Description.-"Shell suboval, short, equilateral, compressed with 

distinct lines of growth; posterior end truncate?, nearly direct. This 

rare species occurs in New Jersey, where I found one valve, and one 

only at Snow Hill.'' (Conrad) 

Remwks.-Known from New Jersey (Conrad), Delaware and 

Snow Hill member in North Carolina. 

Range in New Jerse?/- ? 

Range ontsirle Xew Jersey : Delaware, North Carolina. 

Type.-New Jersey (4) ; prohably lost. 



Crassatellites transvenus (Gabb) 1861 


CrassateUa transversa Gahb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 364. 

Crassatella transversa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 122, pl. 17, figs. 16-17. 

Crarsatellites transversus, Weller, 1907, p. 555, pl. 61, fig. 5. 

Description.-The dimensions of an internal cast are: length, 49 

mm.; height, 32 mm.; thickness, 20 mm. Shell very inequilateral, 

higher in front than behind, the beaks pointed in the internal casts 

and nearly erect, situated about one-third the length of the shell from 

the anterior extremity. Anterior margin convex in front, rounding 

to the hinge-line above and into the basal margin below; basal mar- 

gin convex anteriorly and concave posteriorly; postero-basal margin 

sharply rounding into the obliquely snbtruneate posterior margin, 

which rounds into the dorsal margin above. Valves with an umbonal 

ridge extending in a nearly straight line from the beak obliquely 

backward to the postero-basal extremity of the shell, becoming more 

angular posteriorly. The postero-cardinal slope rather narrow, flat, 

slightly concave or slightly convex. Surface of the shell marked with 

somewhat regular, rather strong, concentric lines of growth which arr 

less conspicuous back of the umbonal ridge. In internal casts the 

muscular impressions are conspicuous and of about equal size. Free 

margill of tile shell crenate. (Weller) 

Remarks.-The type specimen, is a clean cut internal cast with the 

muscular impressions strong, and without the markings of the external 

surface of the shell impressed upon it. The Marlhoro specimens, how- 

ever, agree so closely in their general form, size and proportions with 

the type specimen, that there can be little or EO doubt as to their 

identity. Conrad's illustration of C. ripleyanus has much the form of 

this C. tranruersas, and it is possible that the two forms may be 

identical. 


WENONAH : 35 

1'ype.-New Jersey ;'llNSP 18744. 

Crassatellites cuneatus (Gabb) 1860 


Crassatella pteropsis Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 395, pl. 68, fig. 28. (Not C. pteropsis Conrad.) 

Crassatella cuueata Gabb, 1861, Synop. Moll. Cret. Form., pp. 168, 169 

(112,113). 

Crassatella cuneata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 118, pl. 17, figs. 18-20. 

Crassatellites cuneatus, Weller, 1907, p. 556, pl. 61, figs. 11-12. 



Description.-Shell small, the dimensions of a nearly complete 

internal cast are: length, 16 mm.; height, 10.5 mm. ; thickness, 6.5 mm. 

Subovate in outline, cuneate behind. Beaks erect, rather prominent, 

situated ahont one-third the length of the shell from the anterior 

extremity. Antero-cardinal margin sloping forward from the beak; 

anterior margin rounding into the basal margin; basal margin con- 

vex in front and straight or slightly concave posteriorly; posterior 

margin short, truncate; post-cardinal margin long, sloping haclc- 

ward from the beak and meeting the posterior margin at the extremity 

of the hinge-line in an obtuse angle. An obtusely subangular umbonal 

ridge passes in a nearly straight or sLightly concave line from the 

beak to the postero-basal extremity; the postero-cardinal slope flat or 

slightly concave, the cardinal margin inflected. Surface of the shell 

marked with rather strong, regular, concentric lines of growth. In 

well preserved internal casts the post-cardinal margin and the trun- 

cate posterior margin are not sharply differentiated, the posterior 

extremity of the shell being rather'sharply rounded. The muscular 

scars prominent in the casts. When the internal casts are well pre- 

served to the margin of the shell, the free margins are finely crenate. 

Remarks.-This is a small species and can usually be distinguished 

by its suhcuneate posterior extremity. No specimens preserved in 

such a manner as to exhibit the hinge-characters have been observed, 

but there can be little or no question as to its proper generic position. 

The species occurs most commonly in the Merchantville clay-marl. 

(Weller) 

Range in A'ew Jersey- 

MERCHANTVILLE: 8,10,15 

WEN0NA.H : 34 

Range outside New Jersey : Tennessee. 

Type.-Hardeman County, Tenn.; USNDI 553. 

Crayatellites prorus Conrad 1869 


Crassatella prora Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 43, pl. 1, 

fig. 8. 

Crassatella prora, Whitfield, 1886, p. 120, pl. 17, figs. 10-11. 

Crassatellites prorus, Weller, 1907, p. 558, pl. 61, figs. 6-7. 

Description.-"Shell below a medium size, transversely subellip- 

tical when considered exclusive of the projection of the beaks, hut 

transversely broad triangular if they are considered. Valves rather 

ventrieose for the genus; beaks very large, nearly central or a little 

nearest the anterior end, strongly projecting, and in the cast: the 

only condition in which it is known, nearly erect and moderately dis- 

tant. Poslerior cardinal margin regularly sloping from the beaks to 



the narrowly rounded posterior extremity; anterior side of the beaks 

excavated and the anterior end more broadly rounded than the op- 

posite end; basal line broadly curved. Umbonal ridge scarcely 

angular. Surface, as shown on the casts, marked by comparatively 

strong, regular, concentric ridges, and marked just anterior to the 

umhonal angle by a proportionally broad sulcation passing from near 

the beaks to the base. Rluscular scars distinct." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 22.5 mm. ; height, 

15 mm. ; thickness, 10 mm. 

Rentarks.-This species has been only rarely met with in recent 

collections. It is of a rather exceptional form for species of this genus 

in its subelliptical outline and its nearly central beaks. It is quite 

different in all its characters so far as they are preserved, from typical 

members of the genus Etea where Conrad has referred it, although 

the hinge characters have not been observed. It seems better, there- 

fore, to allow it to remain in the genus where it was originally placed, 

than to transfer it to another. (\\Teller) 



WOODBURY: 20 

Type.-Cross~viclrs, X. J. ; AXSP 18739. 

Crassatellites hodgei Stephenson 


Cr~ssatellites kodgei Stepl~enson, 1923, p. 2i1, pl. 67, figs. 4-9. 

Cvasnatellltcs hodgel, Iiichards, 1954, p. 2, figs. 1, 2. 

Remarks.-Several perfect specimens were found in the well at 

Fellowship, N. J. Some casts from the \Venonah formation near RIarlboro, 

N. J., identified by Weller as C. transverszcs (Gabb) may also 

be this species. The South Carolina specimens are from the Snow Hill 

member of the Black Creek formation. 


WOODBURI': 23, 24a 

WENONAH 1: 33 

Range outside New Jerse,y: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. 

1'ype.-Roods Bentl, Chatti~l~oocliee River, Ala. USNM 31847. 

Cmssatellites subplanus (Conrad) 1853 


Crassatella snbpluna Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd. 

ser., vol. 2, p. 274, pl. 24, fig. 9. 

Crassate/la subplana, \Vhitfield, 1886, (part) p. 121, pl. 18, figs. 14-16. 

(Synon. excluded.) 



Crassallites szcbplanus, Weller, 1907, p. 553, (part), (Figs. & synon. 

excluded.) 

Crassatellites subplanus, Gardner, 1916, p. 651. 

Description.-The dimensions of a small specimen, a nearly per- 

fect right valve, are : length, 36 mm. ; height, 28 mm. ; convexity, 6 mm. 

Large individuals grow to a length of 50 mm. or more. Shell broadly 

subovate in outline, beak obtuse, situated about one-third the length 

of the shell from the anterior extremity. Bntero-cardinal margin 

straight or slightly concave, sloping downward from the beak; anterior 

margin rounding into the basal margin, moderately convex through- 

out to the postero-basal extremity, which is obtusely subangular; 

posterior margin short, truncated nearly vertically or slightly in- 

clined; postero-cardinal margin gently convex, sloping downward 

from the beak and meeting the posterior margin in an obtuse angle. 

Surface of the shell with an obtusely angular umhonal ridge, which 

passes from the beak to the postero-basal angle in nearly a straight 

line, the post-cardinal slope slightly concave to the cardinal margin; 

the post-cardinal margin sharply inflected to form a rather deeply 

excavated escutcheon; antero-cardinal margin inflected to form a 

deep but rather ill-defined lunule. Surface of the shell marked by 

regular, somewhat imbricating, concentric lines of growth, and often 

by a few broader concentric undulations towards the margin. Hinge 

of the right valve with a strong cardinal tooth transversely striate 

on its anterior surface, directly beneath the beak. Behind it is a very 

large and broad triangular pit, with a much smaller secondary pit 

just behind the lower end of the tooth; in front of the cardinal tooth 

is a small triangular pit about equal in size to the secondary pit 

behind, and in front of this pit a low, obscure, tooth-like ridge extends 

obliquely forward to the upper margin of the anterior muscular scar. 

Muscular impressions strong and about equal in size. Inner margin 

of the free edge of the shell crenate. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This differs from C. vadosus Morton in its more com- 

pressed valves, less anterior umhones and much lighter shell with the 

consequent thinner hinge plate and less pronounced posterior keel. 


MARSHALLTOWN: 27, 28 

WENONAH: 35 

NAVESINK: ? 

RED BANK: t 

TINTON: 9 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland. 

Type.-Arneytomn, N. J. ANSP 18743. 



Cmsratellites vadosur (Morton) 1834 


Crassatella vadosa Morton 1834, Syn. Org. Cret. Gr. U. S., p. 66, pl. 13, 

fig. 12. 

Crassatella vadosa Whitfield, 1886, p. 116, pl. 17, figs. 12-15. 

Crmsatellites subplantcs Weller, 1907, p. 553 (part), pl. 61, figs. 1-27 

Not 3, 4 = C. lintetis. 

C'rassatetlites vadosus Oardner, 1916, p. 649, pl. 39, figs. 1-4. 

Crmsatellites vadosus Wade, 1926, p. 79, pl. 35, figs. 6-8. 

Description.-Shell of medium size, thick, heavy, rudely trigonal 

in outline; anterior and lateral margins ronnded. posterior more or 

less produced and truncated, ventral margin approximately horizontal; 

llmhones orthogyrate or turned a little forward, proximate, 

often thickened, flattened upon their summits, placed hack from the 

anterior margin a distance of one-third the total latitude; lunule 

I broadly lenticular, sharply defined, the portion in the left valve a 

trtfle broader and more feebly striaterl by the incrementals that that of 

the right; escutcheon more sharply defined, broader and a trifle larger 

in the right valve than in the left; posterior area outlined by an obtuse 

ridge passing from the nmbones to the posterior ventral margin; 

ext,ernal surface sculptured with low, concentric ridges close set hut 

irregular in arrangement, suggesting an exaggerated incremental 

scnlptiire; a few pronounced resting stages, usually developed toward 

the ventral margin; radial sculpture manifested only in the sharp 

dent,icnlations on the inner margins; hinge plate very heavy, ligament 

pit a small scoop-shaped affair, extending obliquely backward from 

directly beneath t,he tips of the umbones; cardinals two in number in 

the left valve, thrce in the right, the anterior cardinal of the right 

very thin and laminar, and fused at the hase with the dorsal margin, 

the middle cardinal heavy, t,rigonal, tranversely striated; the posterior 

cardinal laminar largely effaced by the resilium, originating near the 

hase of the anterior cardinal and diverging from it at an angle of 

approximately 60°, cardinals of the left valve much more nearly equal 

t,han t,hose of the right, t,he posterior rather thin, just under the 

l~mhones where it forms thc anterior margin of the ligament pit, hut 

expanding rapidly toward its ventral extremity; left cardinals striated 

on their inner faces, separated by a deep trigonal pit for the reception 

of the right anterior cardinal, small sl~lcus near the hase of the left 

posterior cardinal provided for the laminar posterior cardinal of the 

right valve : no trace of true laterals developecl but the posterior dorsal 

margin of the right valve and the anterior dorsal margin of left valve 

bevelled to function as laterals and received in grooves in the opposite 

valves; muscle impressions subequal, placed near the median horizontal, 

the anterior more deeply excavated than the posterior, anterior 

/ 



pedal scar very distinct, set under the hinge plate a little dorsal to 

the anterior adductor; pallial line entire; inner margins finely crenulated 

from the ventral extremity of the lunule to the ventral extremity 

of the escutcheon. 

C. vadoszis Morton shows a wide range of variation in age 

characters. The young are thin, rather compressed and truncated but 

not producer1 posteriorly; with increasing age the form becomes apparently 

more inflated bccause of the umbonal thicl~ening, and obliquely 

produced posteriorly. (Gardner) 

Ranoe in New .7erseu- 

IT. AUREL-AVESINK: 

37,47, 53 

TINTON: 63 

Rolige otitsido A-ew Jersey: hIaryland, Alabama, Xississippi. 

Type.-Prairie Bluff, Ala.; AKSP 19593. 

Crassatellites linteus (Conrad) 1860 


Crassatella liqttea Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 279, pl. 46, fig. 5. 

Crassatella sabplana Whitfield, 1886, (part) p. 121, pl. 18, figs. 14-16. 

(Not of Conrad.) 

Crassatellites szibpla~ius Wcller, 1907, p. 553, (part) pl. 61, figs. 3-4 

(not figs. 1-2 = C. 2;adosus). 

Crassatellites linfeus Gardner, 1916, p. 653, pl. 39, figs. 6-7. 

Crassatellites linteus Wade, 1926, p. 80. 

Description.-Shell rather small for the genus and rather thin, 

compressed, subovate to ovate-trigonal in outline; umbones rising a 

little above the dorsal margin, their apices acute and prosogyrate, 

slightly anterior in posit,ion; lunnle and escutcheon clearly differen- 

tiated but very narrow because of the compression of the valves; an- 

terior end broadly and symmetrically rounded in front of the umbones; 

posterior dorsal margin gently sloping; lateral margin obscurely 

and obliquely truncate; base line rounding smoothly into the anterior 

lateral margin, obtusely angulated at the union with the posterior; 

posterior keel obscure but persistent from the umbones to the posterior 

ventral margin, better defined by the change in the direction of the 

growth lines than by any variation in the plane; external surface 

sculptured wit11 a very- irregular concentric lineation, sharpest and 

most regular in the umbonal region, and with occasional more or less 

aecentuatcd growth lines and resting stages; ligament external, lodged 

beneath the limbones, the resilinm buttressed ventrally by the pos- 

terior cardinal which it has largely effaced; medial right cardinal 

stout, trigonal, snbumbonal, transversely striated laterally; anterior 


PELECYPODA 

eardinal laminar; hinge dentition in left valve restricted to two suh- 

equal cardinals, the posterior a little the larger, both of them striated 

upon their inner faces; no trace of laterals developed but anterior 

margin of left valve and posterior margin of right valve bevelled to 

function as laterals and received in shallow sockets in the correspond- 

ing valve ; muscle impressions distinct, impressed in the adults, plaeed 

high up at the distal extremities of the hinge; pallial line simple, 

distinct, rather distant from thc base line. (Gardner) 


JIARSEALLTOWN: 28 

WENONAH: ? 

Range outside A'ew Jersey: Delaware. Maryland, Alabama, 

Tennessee. 

Type.-Alabama; AXSl' 19594. 

Uddenia conradi (TVhitfield) 1886 


Gouldia conradi Whitfield, 1886, p. 125, pl. 18, figs. 1-3. 

Eriphyla conradi, Weller, 1907, p. 550, pl. 60, figs. 4-8. 

Crassatellites 1 conradi, Stephenson, 1923, p. 274, pl. 67, figs. 10-16. 

Uddenia conradi, Stephenson, 1941, p. 180. 

Description.-"Shell small, the largest specimen observed not ex- 

ceeding three-sixteenths of an inch in its greatest diameter. Valvcs 

subtriangular, approaching a quadrangular outline by the truncation 

of the posterior extremity, which gives the valves when seen from the 

exterior much the form and character of a young Crassatella, which is 

also added to by their moderate convexity. Beaks small and pointed. 

Anterior and posterior sides of the cardinal margin straight, forming 

a little more than a right angle with each other, the posterior side being 

nearly one-half longer than the anterior, and the basal line somewhat 

regularly rounded. Surface of the shell marked by concentric undula- 

tions, which are abruptly bent in crossing the umhonal ridge. Pos- 

terior umbonal slope flattened. Lunule rather long and narrow. Sub- 

stance of the shell thin. Ligamental pit of the hinge small in the left 

valre, and the posterior cardinal tooth-cavity linear and extending 

nearly the entire length of the cardinal border. In the right valve the 

pit is larger and the anterior lateral tooth-cavity more strongly 

marked. Muscular scars and pallial line distinctly marked in the right 

valve (figured), but muell less strongly so in the left one, which is 

thinner in substance, although a slightly larger valve." (Whitfield.) 

Rentarks.-Rare; Stephenson has assigned this shell to his genus 

Uddenia and designated it as type species. It more properly belongs 

in the family Crassatellitidle instead of Astartide as proposed by 

Weller. 






Range outside New Jersey: North Carolina. 

Type.-Haddonfield, X. J. ; AXSP 18735. 

Scambula perplana Conrad 1869 


Scambula perplana Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 48, pl. 9, 

figs. 7-8. 

Scambula perplana, Whitfield, 1886, p. 123, pl. 18, figs. 8-10. 

Scambula perplana, Weller, 1907, p. 562, pl. 61, figs. 13-14. 

Scambzclrc perplana, Wade, 1926, p. 82, pl. 25, figs. 11, 12, 15, 16. 

Scambula perplana, Stephenson, 1942, p. 183, pl. 26, figs. 11-12. 

Description.-"Shell small, triangularly ovate, very transverse, 

with very sharp, pointed, and recurved beaks, situated just within 

the middle third of the length of the shell and nearest to the anterior 

end. Valves fiat, marked by fine concentric lines of growth and a few 

(three or four) broad, oblique undulations of the surface which pass 

from the posterior hinge-line forward to the basal margin There are 

also a few obliquely concentric wrinkles on the antero-cardinal margin 

which extend only a short.distance over the disk of the valve. Along 

the position of the 'posterior umbonal ridge, the surface strire are 

abruptly deflected upward, marking the position of the ridge and de- 

fining the posterior slope of the valve. Posterior end of the valve 

narrow and truncate; anterior end obtusely angular; hasal .margin 

regularly and broadly arcuate. Inner margin of the valves crenulate; 

muscuiar scars small and faintly marked." (mhi:field.) 

Remarks.-The Lorillard specimens are for the most part frag- 

mentary but are usually larger than those from Haddonfield, one 

specimen having a length of 25 mm; also the broad, oblique undula- 

tions are more conspicuous. The Marlhoro specimens do not grow 

larger than those from Haddonfield and seem to lack entirely the 

oblique undulations. 



WENONAH: 35 

Range outside New Jersey: Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ma- 

bama, Texas. 

Type.-Haddonlield, N. J. ANSP 18740. 


PELECYPODA 

Family Corhiculidae 

Corbicula 7 whitAeldi Richards 1943 


Corbicula annosa Whitfield, 1886, p. 26, pl. 2, figs. 2-4. (not Astcrrte 

annosa .Conrad 1869). 

Corbicula annosa, Weller, 1907, p. 563, pl. 62, figs. 1-3. 

Corbicula ? whitfieldi, Richards, 1943, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

vol. 95. p. 20, pl. 5, figs. 2-10. 

Description.-"I have before me two specimens which I have re- 

ferred to this species. They are both somewhat distorted by com: 

pression and retain hut little of the substance of the original shell, 

other than the epidermis, which has been very strong, and a ferru- 

ginous replacement of the ligament. The specimens are both very 

ventricose, with a somewhat subquadrangular outline and a moderately 

angular umbonal ridge. The beaks are small and nearly anterior, hinge 

line short and oblique, with a small ligament. Anterior end short 

and rounded, while the posterior is broadly truncated, corresponding 

to the rather broad and abrupt postero-cardinal slope. If I have rightly 

identified the species, there can he no reason for referring it to 

Astarte in the light afforded by the two specimens, but every appear- 

ance would indicate their relations to the genus Corbicula, with which 

I have placed it." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This is the species designated to take care of the speci- 

mens erroneously referred by Whitfield to Astarte anwsa Conrad. 

Little can he added to the description given by Whitfield, although 

the position of the species in the genus Corbicula is open to question. 


RARITAN: 4 . 


Corbicula ? emacerata Whitfield 1886 


Corbieula ? emacerata Whitfield, 1886, p. 26, pl. 2, figs. 5-6. 

Corbicula 9 ernacerata, Weller, 1907, p. 564, pl. 62, figs. 4-5. 

Corbicula ? emacerata, Richards, 1943, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 

vol. 95, p. 20, pl. 5, fig. 3. 

Description.-"Shell of rather small size, transversely elliptical or 

suhovate in outline, and moderately ventricose. Beaks moderately 

large hut not prominently so, and situated at about the anterior fourth 

of the length of the shell. Anterior end of the shell the highest, the 

anterior margin narrowly rounded ; basal line strongly curved and the 



posterior end narrow and obliquely truncate, the cardinal portion 

rapidly sloping with a slight curvature to the extremity of the 

moderately sized ligament; hinge line short and ohlique to the axis 

of the shell. Umbonal angle distinct but not marked, and the cardinal 

slope narrow and rather abrupt. Surface marked only by fine con- 

centric strife, which appear to hare heen confined principally to the 

epidermal layer." (Whitfield.) 

Re?narks.-ICnown only from a few specimens ol~tained by early 

collectors. The position of the species in the genus Corbicula is open 

to serious .question, hut in view of the poor preservation it is im- 

possible to determine the correct genus. 

Range in A'ew ,Jersey- 

RARITAN: 1, 2 

T

PELECYPODA 



Type.-Walnford, N. J. NJSM 7579 

Family Caprinidae 

Caprotina jerseyensir Weller 1907 


Caprotina jerseyensis Weller, 1907, p. 568, pl. 62, figs. 13-15. 

Description.-The type specimen with a maximum length of 21.5 

mm., a width of 13 mm., and a depth of 15 mm. Beaks curving to the 

left. Lower valve much deeper than the upper, attached by nearly 

one-half its entire surface, the beak projecting far beyond that of 

the upper valve. Upper valve moderately convex. The shell substance 

is preserved only on a portion of the upper valve where the surface 

markings are seen to be very narrow but rather highly elevated, sharp, 

radiating costal, the interspaces being twice as wide as the ribs; the 

radiating markings are crossed by very fine concentric lines of growth. 

On the internal cast both the radiating and concentric markings are 

faintly impressed. 

Remarks.-This species is founded upon a single individual pre- 

serving both valves. It is for the most part a cast of the interior of 

the shell, but a portion of the shell itself is preserved upon the upper 

valve, and sufficient fragments of the shell are still preserved upon 

the lower valve to show that the surface markings were essentially 

the same on both. The specimen is nearly complete, the beak only 

of the lower valve being injured. The species should be compared 

with Caprotina conomanensis d'orbigny, from the Upper Cretaceous 

of France. (IVeller) 


NAVESINK: 40 

Typo.-Crawfords Corner, N. J. NJSM 7547. 

Family Unicardiidae 

Unicardiurn urnbonata (Whitfield) 1886 


flphaeriola urnbonata Whitfield, 1886, p. 152, pl. 19, figs. 17-18. 

Unicardium umbonata, Weller, 1907, p. 569, pl. 62, figs. 16-17. 

Unicardinm. ~~n~bonata, Oroot, Organist and Rich~rds, 1954, p. 46, pl. 

5, fig. 9. 

Description.-The dimensions of a large left valve are: length, 

57 mm.; height, 54 mm.; convexity, 18.5 mm. Shell very thin, sub- 



circular or slightly subquadrangular in outline. Cardinal margin 

arcuate, edentulous; anterior margin broadly rounded, its most an- 

terior point being at or below the middle, rounding below into the 

basal margin; basal margin curving upward at each end, straighter 

in the middle; posterior margin usually a little shorter than the 

anterior, regularly rounded or some times a little straightened in the 

middle. Beaks strongly incurved, pointing forwi~rd, situated at the 

middle or a little back of the middle of the cardinal margin; umbones 

prominent, much elevated above the hinge-line. Valves strongly con- 

vex or ventricose, the anterior slope somewhat more abrupt than the 

posterior, slightly compressed towards the cardinal eHtremities. Sur- 

face of the shell marked only by concentric lines of growth which 

are more or less irregular in the strength of their development. 

Remarks.-This species mas described by Whitfield from a very 

imperfeet cast of the interior, and was referred to the genus Spltae- 

&la without any knowledge of the hinge characters. In later col- 

lections of the Survey specimens preserving the shell have been 

secured from the Marshalltown clay-marl near Smedesboro, and from 

these it has been learned that the binge is edentulous, a character 

which prohibits its reference to the genus Sphaeriola. The hinge 

characters, as well as the general form and characters of the shell, 

seem to agree in all essential respects with members of the genus 

Unicardium. (Weller) 

Range in New Jcrsey- 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK : 37, 48 

Range outside New Jerseu : Delaware. 


Family Lucinidae 

Lucina glebula Conrad 1875 


1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Conrad, 1869, Amer. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, 

pl. 9, fig. 14. (Figure without name or description; questionably 

this species.) 

Lucina glebala Conrad, 1875, Geol. Surv. N.C!. Rept., vol. 1, (by W. 

C. Kerr), App. A, p. 7, pl. 1, fig. 18. 

Lucina cretacea, Weller, 1907, p. 570, pl. 62, fig. 18. 

Lucino glebula, Stephenson, 1923, p. 279, pl. 69, figs. 46. 

Description.-"Shell broadly subelliptical in outline, equivalve, 

slightly inequilateral, depressed convex. Beaks low, incurved, ap- 

proximate, slightly prosogyrate, situated a little in advance of the 



midlength. Umbonal ridge depressed, moderately defined, slightly 

arched in its trend, extending from the beak to the lower posterior 

extremity. Back of and above the umbonal ridge is a depressed area 

extending from the beak to the posterior margin, becoming wider 

posteriorly. Dimensions of the type (7) specimen: Length 31 mm., 

height 26 mm., convexity 7 mm. 

Hinge of right valve with one pseudo-cardinal tooth directed 

downward and a little backward, in front of the lower end of which 

is a small pit, and back of which is a broad, oblique, triangular de- 

pression. Anterior lateral tooth obsolete; back of the triangular 

depression is a nearly horizontal, moderately stronr nymph, bordered 

ahove by the shallow ligamental groove which is rather deeply sub- 

merged below the margin. As the hinge of the left valve has eor- 

responding and not alternate prominences and depressions, these fea- 

tures can scarcely be termed teeth and sockets. Linule mall and 

short. 

Anterior adductor scar long, relatively narrow, the lower two- 

fifths of its length separated from the pallial line by a profonnd 

sulcus-like indentation; posterior adduetor not clearly distinguish- 

able. Pallial line simple. Inner margin finely erenulated on well 

preserved specimens. 

Dorsal margin long, slightly arched back of the beak, slightly 

concave on front of the beak. Anterior'margin truncated above, 

passing below by a broad, subobduse angle into the rather broadly 

and nearly regularly rounded ventral margin ; posterior margin trnn- 

cated and a little concave above the extremity. 

Surface of well preserved specimens marked by concentric, some- 

what irregularly spaced, prominent, thin lamellae, which curl down- 

ward and touch the surface below, forming round, crested, hollow 

ridges. The interspaces are nearly flat and are marked only by fine, 

growth lines. On the type (7) specimen the prominent down-curling: 

lamellae have been broken or worn away." (Stephenson.) 

Remarks.-Conrad labeled a specimen Lucina cretacea; however, 

this name was preoccupied. He apparently later described the species 

under the name L. glebula. The New Jersey specimens are a little 

smaller than those from North Carolina. 

Range ilz New Jersey- 

WOODBURY 

Range outside New Jersey: Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, 

Arkansas . 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. ; USNM 31933. 

Lucina medesboroensis Weller 1907 

Plate 30, Figures 10,ll 

Lucina swedesboroensis Weller, 1907, p. 571, pl. 62, figs; 19-21. 



Description.-The dimensions of a small hut nearly perfect indivi- 

dual are: height, 13.5 mm.; length, 14 mm.; thickness, 6 mm. The 

dimensions of another left valve are: height, 14.5 mm.; length, 16 

mm. The larger individuals sometimes attain a height of 20 mm. 

Shell subcircular, varying from a little higher than long to slightly 

longer than high. Beaks small, pointing forward. Valves depressed 

convex with a very obscure arcuate umhonal prominence extending 

from the heak obliquely to the postero-basal margin; post-cardinal 

margin sharply inflected to form'a narrow and deep escutcheon; in 

front of the beaks the margin is sharply inflected to form a small but 

profound lunule. Surface of the shell marked by rather he, more 

or less irregular concentric lines of growth. Hinge-line arcuate; hinge 

of the left valve with a large, triangular cardinal tooth beneath the 

heak, and another obscure one directed obliquely backward, in front of 

the beaks is a single lateral tooth beneath the lunule and close to the 

shell margin, back of the beak and remote from it, extending nearly 

to the posterior extremity of the hinge-line, is a low, elongate, posterior 

cardinal tooth. (\\Teller) 

Remarks.-Rare 

Range in iYow Jersey- 

IIARSHALLTOWN: 28 

Type.-Smedesboro, N. J. NJSM 9654. 

Lucina parva Stephenson 1923 

Plate 31, Figures 10,ll 

Lucina parva Stephenson, 1923, p. 281, pl. 69, figs. 7-10. 

Description.-"Shell small, equivalve, subequilateral, suhcircular 

broadly suhovnte in outline, depressed convex. Beaks small, very 

slightly prominent, approximate, incurved slightly prosogyrate, 

situated slightly back of the midlength. Umbonal ridge represented by 

a very slight inflation; hack of and above the urnhonal inflation is a 

slightly compressed area extending radially from the heak to the posterior 

extremity. Approximate dimensions of the type, a right valve: 

length 7.5 mm., height 7 mm., convexity 1.5 mm. Lnnnle short and 

deeply impressed. 

Hinge of right valve with one large triangular, slightly bifid 

cardinal tooth, in front of which is a rather narrow, deep, nearly 

vertical socket, and back of which is an ohliqi~e socket with a very 

low posterior \\.all. Slightly in advance of the short, deeply impressed 

luuule is a short, prominent, anterior lateral tooth; more distant than 

the anterior lateral tooth is a still shorter, thin, prominent, posterior 

lateral tooth. Ligamental groove long, partly submerged, moderately 

impressed, bordered below by a low nymph. Left valve with a deep, 

triangular, cardinal socket in front of which is a nearly vertical 




PELECYPODA 

Cardiuna ez~jaulensiq, Gardner, 1916, p. 664, pl. 40, figs. 1-2 (Not 

C. eufaulensk, Whitfisld, 1886, p. 132, pl. 20, fig. 17 = 0. whitfieldi 

Weller; 18, 19 = C. tenuistriatum Whitfield.) 

Description.-The dimensions of the internal cast of a left valve 

are: height, 26.5 mm.; width, 21.5 mm.; convexity, 9 mm. Shell 

obliquely ovate in outline. Hinge-line arcuate; anterior and basal 

margins rounding regularly with slightly decreasing curvature from 

the anterior cardinal extremity to the postero-basal extremity; pos- 

tero-basal margin rounded; posterior margin gently convex or nearly 

straight, always straighter than the anterior margin. Beaks mall, 

acute, incurved, only a little elevated above the hinge-line. Valves 

strongly convex, with a rounded umbonal prominence passing 

obliquely backward from the beak to the poster-basal extremity; 

posterior slope short, abrupt, nearly flat or sometimes slightly concave; 

anterior slope much longer, convex, becoming a little more abrupt 

anteriorly. Muscular impressions inconspicuous on the casts, the 

inner free margins of the valves crenate, surface of the casts some- 

times smooth, sometimes showing impressions of the radiating ribs 

half way to the beak from the margin. Outer surface of the valves. 

marked by from 35 to 40 angular, radiating costre, where the shell is 

exfoliated these ribs appear to be hollow or tubular and their position 

is indicated by depressed furrows instead of elevations. 

Remarks.-The specimens which have been identified as C. 

eufaulensk in the present report, agree closely with Conrad's original 

description and illustration, and agree with authentic specimens 

from the South. They have been recognized only in the Wenonah 

and Navesink formations where they are associated with C. long- 

streeti, but differ from that species in being more elongate and rela- 

tively narrower, and more regularly oval in outline without the 

subangular postero-basal extremity. The radiating ribs of the two 

species are also very different, those of C. eufaulensis being broader, 

less abruptly elevated from the interspaces, and lacking the small 

nodes upon their summits. The specimens observed vary somewhat in 

outline, some individuals being relatively lower and broader than 

the one whose dimensions are given. (Weller) 



MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE : 53 

Range outside New .Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, D. C., North 

CarolinaP, South Carolina?, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. 

- Type>Eufanla, Ala.; dNSP 195972 internal cast of type. 

Cardium longstreeti Weller 1907 


Cardium longstreeti Weller, 1907, p. 579, pl. 63, figs. 21-22, 



FCardium longstreeti, Stephenson, 1923, p. 289, pl. 71, figs, 4-8. 

Cardiwm longstreeti. Stephenson, 1936, Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. Vol. 

47, p. 377, pl. 2, fig. 1. 

Cardium cf. longstreeti, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47, 

pl. 5, fig. 7. 


are: height, 33 mm.; width, 31 mm.; convexity, 10 mm. Shell 

obliquely subov;~te in outline. Hinge-line arcuate; antero-cardinal 

margm nearly straight, sloping downward from the beak to the an- 

terior hinge extremity, curving below without break into the anterior 

margin ; anterior and basal margins rounding with a regular, slightly 

decreasing cnrrature from the anterior hinge-extremity to the pos- 

tero-basal extremity; postero-basal extremity subangular, situated 

ronsiderably above the base of the shell; posterior margin obliquely 

truncate, rounding ahove to the posterior hinge-extremity. Beaks 

small, acute, incurvcd moderately elevated above the hinge-line, 

pointing slightly backward at their tips. Valves with an umhonal 

prominence pnssing obliquely from the beak to the postero-basal 

extremity, in the casts it is snhangular, but in the shell itself more 

rounded; the most prominent portion of the shell lies in front of this 

umbonal ridge; posterior slope narrow, somewhat flattened or con- 

cave; anterior slope gently convex across the middle of the shell, 

hecoming more ahrnpt towards the anterior margin. The inner free 

margins of the shell strongly crenate, and the radiating ribs present 

npon thc internal casts half way or more to the beaks. Muscular 

impressions inconspicuous upon the casts. Surface of the shell marked 

by about 38 rather high, angular ribs with small, more or less distant 

nodes along their snmmits; these ribs grow regularly larger in passing 

from the anterior cardinal extremity to the postero-basal angle, those 

upon the posterior slope are notably thinner and more sharply angular 

than those upon the central and antedor porf,ion of the shell. and one. 

about the second or third from the postero-cardinal extremity, is much 

higher and more conspicuous than the others. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Stephenson questionably refers some specimens from 

the Snow Hill member of the Black Creek formation to this species. 


TVENONAH: 34 

Range ontsirle Ne~u Jersey: Delaware ( 4), North Carolina ( I), 

Georges Bank. 

Type.-Crawfonl's Corner, N. J.; NJSM 7673. 

Cardium whitAeldi Weller 1907 


Cardizcm ~z~faulensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 132, pl. 20, fig. 17 (not figs. 



18-19). (Xot C. ezifaz~lemsis Conrad = C. tcnuistriatzcm Whitfield), 

Cardium wlcitfieldi, JVeller, 1907, p. 580, pl. 64, fig. 8. 

Description.-The dimensions of an internal cast are: height, 58 

mm.; width, 55 mm.; thickness, 38 mm. Shell subcircular in outline; 

hinge-line nearly straight; anterior and basal margins curving with a 

regnlar: slightly dccreasing curvature from the anterior hinge extremity 

to the postero-hasal region; postero-basal extremity a little 

more sharply rounded; posterior margin convex, a little straighter 

than the antcrior. Beaks, in the cast, rather small, nearly erect, acute, 

incurvcd, but lit,tle elevated above the hinge-line. Valves moderately 

convex, t,heir greatest prominence along an oblique line from the bealr 

to the postero-basal extremity, the umhonal prominence not at all 

angular; anterior slope long and gently convex, becoming somewhat 

compressed to~rarils the cardinal extremity; posterior slope shorter 

and more ahrnpt, comprcssecl towards the cardinal extremity, hut less 

so than the antcrior. Muscular impressions on the cast inconspicuous, 

the posterior onc much the larger. Lateral hinge-teeth large and strong, 

horizontal in position, the antcrior and posterior ones about equidistant 

from the heaks; cardinal hinge-teeth moderately strong. Inner 

free margins of the valves strongly crenate all around. Surface 

of the shell marked by ahout 60 to 64 radiating ribs which are impressed 

upon the casts up to the umhonal region. 

Ranlarks.-Whitfield's figure 17 of his Corrliwm ez~fazclensis is 

possibly a representative of this species, hut it is proportionately 

somewhat narronrer than any nf the specimens which have been ohserved. 

The species differs from C. etcfaz~lensis in its more nearly 

circular form, its straighter and practically horizontal hinge-line, 

anrl its much larger nnmher of cost=. It is also much larger than the 

oviginal iIhistration of that spreies. (Weller) 


TVOODBURY: 18 

T!jpo.-T~orillard, N. .T. ; N.JS?If 9621. 

Cardium cliffwoodensis Weller 1907 


Cardium cliffwoodensis J\'eller 1907, p. 581, pl. 64, figs. 14. 

Do.?cription.-The dimensions of the internal casts of two valves, 

the larger a right anrl the smaller a left valve, are: height, 25 mm. 

,and 18 mm. ; width, 25 mm. and 18 mm. ; convexity, 7 mm. and 6 mm. 

Shell obliquely suhovate in outline; hinge-line arcuate; the anterior 

and basal margins from the anterior cardinal extremity to the pos- 

tero-basal extremity, describe a nearly regular semicircle; postero- 

basal margin more sharply rounded; posterior margin gently convex, 

straighter than the anterior margin. Be& situated near the middle 



of the hinge-line, small, acute, slightly elevated above the hinge-line 

in the internal casts. Valves only moderately conxSex; anterior slope 

long dnd regularly convex; posterior slope much shorter, more 

abrupt, slightly flattened. Muscular impressions on the casts incon- 

spicuous. Lateral hinge-teeth strong, sloping slightly downward from 

the beak on each side; characters of the cardinal teeth not clear in the 

casts. Inner free margin of the shell strongly crenate. Surface of the 

shell marked by about 35 or 40, squarish, flat-topped, radiating eostte, 

slightly widcr than the interspaces, and by fine concentric lines which 

are stronger upon the tops of the radiating costre. (Weller) 


MAGOTHY: 5 

Type.-Cliff\vood Point, N. J. NJSDl7777. 

Cardium lorillardensis Weller 1907 


Cardium lorillardensis Weller, 1907, p. 582, pl. 64, figs. 5-6. 


are: height, 30 mm. ; width, 35 mm.; convexity, 10 mm. Shell oblique, 

subovate to subrhomboidal in outline. Hinge-line nearly straight ; 

anterior and basal margins curving with a gradually decreasing curva- 

ture from the anterior cardinal extremity nearly to the postero-basal 

extremity; postero-basal extremity more sharply rounded ; posterior 

margin obliquely truncate, a little convex above and below, straight 

or nearly straight in the middle. Beaks situated at about the middle 

of the hinge-line, prominent, elevated above the hinge-line, acute, in- 

curved, pointing anteriorly. Valves with a subangular umbonal promi- 

nence or ridge extending from the beak obliquely backward to the 

postero-basal extremity; anterior slope long and nearly regularly con- 

vex, posterior slope abrupt, usually a little concave. Surface of shell 

marked by about 40 or 45 angular radiating costte a little narrower 

than the intervening furrovs, and by very fine, concentric, sublamel- 

lose lines which are much more conspicuous upon the anterior faces 

of the radiating costre. (JVeller) 

Remarks.-This species can be easily distinguished from any other 

member of the genus in the Rew Jersey Cretaceous faunas, by reason 

of its subangular umbond ridge, its obliquely truncate posterior mar- 

gin, and by the peculiarity of the fine, concentric, sublamellose lines 

upon the surface being much more conspicuous upon the anterior 

faces of the costre. 



Type.-Lorillard, R. J. NJSM 7721. 



Cardium ripleyanum Conrad 1869 


Cardiunb ripleyanum Conrad, 1869, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 5, p. 96, 

pl. 9, fig. 6. 

Cardium ripleyanum, Whitfield, 1886, p. 132, pl. 20, fig. 14. 

Cardium ripleuanurn, Weller, 1907, p. 582, pl. 65. figs. 4-6. 

Dcscriptwn.-The dimensions of an internal east are: height, 4.5 

mm. ; width, 4 mm. ; thickness, 3 mm. The height of one of the largest 

individuals observed is 5.3 mm. Shell subcircular in outline, slightly 

higher than wide, cordate in end view. Hinge-line relatively long, a 

little arched; anterior, basal, and posterior margins rounded. Beaks 

rather prominent, elelrated above the hinge-line, incurved. Umhones 

prominent, the surface sloping rather abruptly both in front and be- 

hind; shell compressed towards the cardina! extremities, more so be- 

hind than in front. Surface of the shell marked with about 22 suh- 

angular, radiating ribs, slightly narrower than the interspaces, also, 

by fine, concentric, sublamellose lines. 

Remarks.-This little species is not an uncommon member of the 

Woodbury clay fauna, being less common in the Cliffwood and Mer- 

chantville. It was originally described from the Woodbury clay 

formation near Haddonfield. (Weller) 


MAOOTHY: 5,6 

MERCHANTVILLE : 10, 15,16 

WOODBURY: 18, 19, 24 

Type.-Haddonficld, N. J.; ANSP 18794. 

Cardiurn rpillmmi Conrad 1858 

. Plate 32, Figures 5, 6 

Cardium spillmani Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd 

ser., vol. 3, p. 326, pl. 34, fig. 3. 

Cardium (Protocardium) perelongatum Whitfield, 1886, p. 136, pl. 20, 

figs. 20-21; pl. 21, figs. 4-5. 

Pachycardium burlingtonense Whitfield, 1886, p. 138, pl. 21, figs. 6-7. 

Cardium spillmani, Weller, 1907, p. 583, pl. 64, figs. 9-11. 

Cardium spillmani, Gardner, 1916, p. 666. 

Cardium spillmani, Stephenson, 1923, p. 298, pl. 73, figs. 3-5. 

Cardiz~n~ spdlmani, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47. 

Description.-The dimensions of a nearly perfect internal cast are: 

height, 87 mm. ; width, 55 mm. ; thickness, 60 mm. Shell more or less 

narrowly subovate in lateral view, nnd cordate in end view. Hinge- 


line rather short, arched, extending further downward in front than 

behind; anterior margin convex, the curvature becoming greater helow; 

basal margin regularly rounded; posterior margin longer and 

straighter than the anterior, usually slightly convex, sometimes 

straight or slightly sinuate in the casts a little above the middle. Beaks 

situated back of the middle of the hinge-line, strongly elevated above 

it in the casts, pointed, incurved, and distinctly curved forward. 

Umbones prominent, the most prominent portion of the shell being in 

an oblique line from the beaks to the postero-basal margin, this umbonal 

prominence being not at all angular. The posterior slope much 

more abrupt than the anterior, its surface eonspieuously impressed 

above the middle of the shell about half way between the top of the 

umbonal !~rominence and the posterior cardinal extremity. Muscular 

impressions large, the anterior ones deeply impressed, the posterior 

ones scarcely or not at all differentiated from the surface of the casts. 

The left valve with two strong cardinal teeth beneath the beak with a 

pit between, right valve with a single cardinal tooth ; anterior lateral 

teeth more remote from the cardinal teeth than the posterior ones, 

and also apparently much stronger. Inner free margin of the valves 

erenate along the posterior margin, smooth along the basal and 

anterior margins. Surface of the shell marked by radiating ribs upon 

the posterior slope, which, in the internal casts at least, continue 

only from the margin up to the umbonal prominence; central and 

anterior portions of the shell marked by concentric lines of growth 

only. 

Remarks.-Both of the species described by Whitfield from New 

Jersey as Cardb~m perelo?~gatum and Pachycardium burlingtouense, 

are certainly internal casts of the shell described by Conrad from 

AZississippi as Cardium spillmani, the example to which the last of the 

two names was applied being an exceptionally broad specimen. The 

species is for the most part restricted to the Navesink marl, where it 

attains its maximum sizc. The specimens which have been rarely noticed 

in the Merchantville clay are usually small, although Whitfield's P. 

barlingtonense is a very large example. The internal casts, in which 

condition the species usually occurs, have some resemblance to those 

of thc species

PELECWODA .207 

South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, llississippi, Arkansas, Texas. 

Type.-(C. spillma+~i), Tippah County, Mississippi 

(C. b~srllnytonensis) Near Burlington, N. J. ANSP 18751 

(C. perolonyatvm) New Jersey; ANSP 19372. 

Cardium kiimmeli Weller 1907 


Cardium kiinameli Weller, 1907, p. 585, pl. 66, figs. 1-3. 

Carditin1 kiinimcli, Gardncr, 1916, p. 673. 

Cavdizcm kiinlmeli, Wade, 1926, p. 85, p1. 26, figs. 5-6. 

Description.-The dimensions of a rather small internal cast 

of a right valve arc: height, 4.5 mm. ; width, 34mm. ; convexity, 17.5 mm. 

Large indivi(1uals sometimes attain a height of 70 mm. or more. SheU 

subovate in lateral view, cordate in end view. Beaks of the internal 

casts greatly elevated ahore the hinge-line, pointed and incurved. 

Hinge-line arcnate; anterior margin regularly rounded from the ex- 

tremity of the hinge-line to thc middle of the basal margin; postero- 

basal margin a little more sharply rounded; posterior margin convex, 

a little straighter than the anterior. Valves strongly convex or gib- 

bous, most prominent, but not at all angular, along an oblique line 

from the beaks to the postero-basal extermity, the posterior slope more 

abrupt than the anterior. Muscular impressions large, the anterior 

ones deeply impressed above, the posterior ones scarcely differentiated 

from the general surface of the casts. Hinge characters not seen. Inner 

free margins of the valves apparently not crenate. Shell substance 

thick, rugose externally. The surface markings consist of strongly 

elevated, rounded, radiating costae, narrower than the interspaces; 

on a specimen about 55 mm. in length, the distance between these ribs 

from center to center at the middle portion of the shell margin, ,is 

about 2 mm. or a little less. Each third interspace is occupied by a 

row of strong and thick spines rising one or two millimeters above 

the tops of the costa: when complete, subcircular in cross-section, 

their bases occupying the entire width of the furrow, the space be- 

tween successive spines being about equal to the thickness of the spines 

themselves; in some cases the bases of the spines are thickened longi- 

tudinally so that they occupy essentially the entire furrow, in which 

case the two bounding costie with the row of spines rising from the 

intervening furrow, appear to form altogether, one broad rib support- 

ing a row of strong spines. The two furrows intervening between the 

rows of strong spines are each occupied by a row of very much smaller, 

laterally compressed spines wllose bases are more or less connected. 

Remarks.-There is considerable variation shown in the surface 

markings of diffcrcnt individuals of this species, and the extremes 

might be taken as the representatives of distinct species or even of 


208- CRETACEOUS FOSSILS 

distinct subgenera. In its typical form as seen in the Tinton beds, 

the species exhibits clearly the characteristics of the subgenus Criccardium, 

the rows of spines rising from the interspaces between the radiating 

costse of the shell. In some specimens the bases of the larger spines 

or nodes are confluent and appear to entirely fill the interspace occupied 

by them, so that the two bounding costre with the row of spines together 

seem to constitute a single broad rib crowned with a row of 

strong nodes. At the same time the rows of secondary nodes are sometimes 

confluent at their bases and form a continuous secondary rib, 

perhaps nodose on top, and about equaling in height and size the primary 

costre, so that there seem to be three costa, of nearly equal size 

in the broad interspace between the rows of large nodes and their 

included bounding costre. In the extreme development of the rows of 

secondary nodes their bases are confluent and they increase in size 

and height so as to occupy the whole of the interspaces, obliterating 

entirely the primary eostse, so that the surface of the shell is apparently 

marked by radiating rows of tubercles which apparently do not rise 

from interspaces between costre, but ilirectly from the surface, each 

third row being much larger and stronger than the two intervening 

ones. 

It is possible that larger collections of more perfectly preserved 

material than this is now available, would show that more than one 

species has been included under this head, but so far as can be determined 

from present collections, all these forms seem to run together. 

The typical form of the species, however, is that in which the nodes 

rise distinctly from the interspaces, showing the characters clearly 

of the subgenus Criocardium, and which has been recognized only in 

the Tinton beds. 

In its somewhat elongate and slender form, the species in the form 

of internal casts somewhat resembles the casts of C:spillmani and they 

have sometimes been so identified. It does not grow so large as that 

species, ho~vever, it lacks the radiating ribs usually impressed upon 

the posterior slope of C. perelongatum, and the anterior muscular 

scar is not so low in position. 

In the collections of the National Museum at Washington this 

species is represented by numerous examples from the South which 

have usually been referred to Cardium dumosum. These Southern 

specimens are perfectly preserved shells which are smaller than the 

nsnal examples from the Tinton Beds in New Jersey, but their surface 

markings are identical with those of the type specimen. The species 

differs from C. dumosum in its more elongate form and in the much 

coarser surface markings. C. tippana is another allied form in which the 

surface markings are fully as coarse as in C. kiimmeli, but there is 

only a single row of smaller turbercles between the larger ones in that 

species, instead of two as in C. kiimmeli. (Weller) 

Range is New Jerse,y- 




TINTON: 60, 61 

Range outside New Jersey : Dela~rxare, Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, 

Mississippi. 

Type.-Beers Hill, N. J. NJSM 7495. 

Cardium uniformis Weller 1907 


Cardium uniformif Weller, 1907, p. 588, pl. 65, figs. 1-3. 

Description.-The dimensions of a perfect internal cast are: height, 

42 mm. ; width, 35.5 mm. ; thickness, 28 mm. Shell irregularly suhovate 

in lateral view and narrowly cordate in end view. Beaks situated 

near the middle of the hinge-line and elevated above it, pointed and 

incurved. Hinge-line arcuate; anterior margin from the estremity 

of the hinge-line to the middle of the basal margin almost regularly 

arcuate ; postero-basal margin more sharply rounded into the pos- 

terior margin, which is gently convex, being muell straighter than 

the anterior margin. Muscular impressions moderately large, not 

strongly impressed. Inner free margins of the shell crenate, the 

corrugations of the external surface of the shell recognizable upon the 

internal casts to the umbonal region, and in small individuals to the 

beaks. The most prominent portion of the shell is in a line extending 

obliquely from the beak to the postero-basal extremity, this umbonal 

prominence is not at all angular, but the posterior slope is more abrupt 

than the anterior, becoming slightly concave as it approaches the cardi- 

nal extremity. The hinge-teeth, so far as can be recognized from the 

internal cast, are in every way similar to those of C. tenuistriatum. 

The surface markings, as indicated by impressions of the outside, con- 

sist of rather broad, flattened, radiating costx, with much narrower 

interspaces. From the liottoms of the interspaces arise rows of 

spinules, very strongly compressed laterally, which are nearly uniform 

in size over the main ccntral portion of the shell, there being only a 

slight suggestion of each third row being slightly larger; upon the 

anterior slope of the shell, however, each third row of spinules, and 

near the cardinal extremity every other row, are materially stronger; 

the same condition is probably true for the posterior slope, but this 

has not been observed. 

Remarks.-The closest ally of this species is the common shell re- 

ferred to C. tenuistriatum in this report, but the two species differ in 

several respects. The radiating rows of spinules are much more uniform 

in size on C. uniformis than on C. tenuistrktum, although upon the 

anterior and probably upon the posterior lateral slope there are rows 

of larger and smaller spines. The valves also of C. uniformis are less 

strongly convex than those of C. tenuistriatum, and they are slightly 

compressed towards the posterior cardinal extremity and the corrugs 



Lions of the exterior are more strongly impressed upon the surface 

of the internal casts. (Weller) 

Range in .Vow Jorsey- 

WOODBURY: 18 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J. ; NJSM; 7720. 

Cardium trillineatum Weller 1907 


Cardiu~n trdlinea,ttim Weller, 1907, p. 589, pl. 65, fig. 20. 

Description.-Form and dimensions of the shell not known, but 

probably similar to C. tent~istriatum. Surface of the shell marked with 

flattened radiating costre, mith interspaees about equal to or a little 

narrower than the costre. From each fourth interspace, on the central 

portion of the shell, arises a rom of laterally compressed spinules at 

intervals apart about equaling the width of three cost= and their two 

intervening interspaces; in each of the three intervening interspaces 

is a row of minute tubercles much snlaller and much closer together 

than the spinules, about three or three and one-half occupying the 

space of two spinules. On the lateral slol~e of the type specimen one 

space between the rows of spinules is occupied by but two rows of 

tubercles. 

liemarks.-This species is established upon a single specimen, 

an incomplete impression of the exterior of a shell. This fragment is 

about 17 inm. in length, but the specimen of which it was a part could 

not have been less than 30 mm. in length. The surface markings of the 

shell resemble those of both C. dun~osun~ and C. tenuistriatwm, but differ 

from both of these species in having three lines of tubercles or smaller 

spinules between the rows of larger ones instead of two only, the 

number of rows of smaller spinules upon the lateral slopes of the shell 

being sometimes reduced to two instead of to one only as in both the 

other species. Because of our limited knowledge of this species, it is 

possible that some of the internal casts from the Navesink marl referred 

to C. tenuistriatutn may belong here, but that can be determined only 

by means of more complete collections. (Weller) 

Range in Xelv Jersey- 

NAVESINE: 37 

T,ype.-Atlantic Highlands, N. J. NJSM 7553. 

Cardium dumosum Conrad 1870 


Cardium (Criocardi?~m) dumosum Conrad, 1870, Am. Jour. Conch., 

I vol. 6, p. 75. 


I 

I 


Cardium (Cricocardium) dumosum, Whitfield, 1886, p. 133, pl. 20, 

figs. 9 and 1 13 (not figs. 10-12). 

Cardizrm dz~mosum, Weller, 1907, p. 590 (part) not pl. 65, figs. 7-10. 

? Cardizcm dumosr~m, Gardner, 1916, p. 668. 

Cat.diurn dzmtosum, Stephenson, 1923, p. 293, p1. 72, figs. 5-8. 

Carditen8 d.?o?~ostcm, Wade, 1926, p. 83, pl. 26, figs. 2-3. 

Cardhcm dumost~m, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47. 

Description.-"Shell of medium thickness, subquadratc in ontline, 

noticeably higher than long, moderately convex, scarcely oblique. Bcalr 

slightly prominent, becoming more prominent in large individuals, 

rather broad, incurved, approximate, nearly direct, situated at about 

the midlength. TJmhonal ridge broadly rounded, riot prominent; posterior 

slope moderately steep and hroaclly convex. IIinge normal, inner 

margin of the shell rather finely crenulated. On the inner surface impressed 

lines corresponding to the interspaces of the outer surface cxtend 

from the margin halfway to the beak. 

Dorsal margin slightly arched; anterior margin slightly subtruncated, 

ronnding into the sliglltly truncated ventral margin which 

inclines somell-hat toward the lower posterior extremity; posterior 

extremity almost squarely truncated, subangular below, rounding into 

the dorsal margin above." (Stephenson) 

Remarks.-Conrad's type came from Haddonficld, N. J. and very 

similar material has been found at Snow Hill, N, C. The type specimen 

shovs indications of having been subjected to some crushing and 

has probably been compressed just enough to spread the sides a 

little, producing a broad and subcircular outline. Aecording to Stephenson, 

the speeimens figured by \Teller as C. dunaosum are nearly 

circular in outline and have a finer sculpture and probably do not 

belong to this species. 

Range in Few Jersw- 



WENONAH: 34 

RED BANK : 60 

Range outside NEW Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, blississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas. 


Cardium tenuistriaturn Whitfield 1886 


Cardium efcfaulensis Whitfield, 1886, p. 132, pl. 20, figs. 18-19, not fig. 

17 = C. whitfieldi Weller (not C. eufaulensis Conrad.) 

Cardium (Criocardium) dumosum, Whitfield, 1886, p. 133, pl. 20, 



figs. 10-12, not figs. 9 and ? 13. ( = C. dumosum Conrad.) 

Cardium (Crwcardium) multiradiatum, Whitfield, 1886, (part) p. 135, 

pl. 21, figs. 1-3. (Not C. mulfiradiatum Gahh.) 

Praguna tzuistiiatum, Tvhitfier1886Y139, pl. 20, figs. 15, 16. 

Cardium tenuistriatum, Weller, 1907, p. 591, pl. 65, figs. 13-19. 

Cardiutn tenuistriatum, Gardner, 1916, p. 669. 

Cardium tenuistriatum, Wade, 1926, p. 84, pl. 26, fig. 4. 

Cardium tenuistriatum, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47, 

pl. 5, figs. 5, 6. 

- - -- --- 

Description.-The dimensions of an internal cast are: height, 44 

cm.; width, 37 mm.; thickness, 35 mm. Large examples sometimes 

attain a height of over 60 mm. Shell irregularly subovate in lateral 

view and cordate in end view. Hinge-line arcuate ; anterior and basal 

margins, from the extremity of the hinge-line to the middle of the basal 

margin, describing a nearly regular, arcnate curve; postero-basal 

margin curving more sharply around the postero-basal extremity of the 

shell into the posterior margin; posterior margin much straighter than 

the anterior, usually gently convex hut sometimes nearly or quite 

straight. Beaks situated at about the middle of the hinge-line, rather 

prominent, elevated, pointed and incurved, considerably more promin- 

ent in the casts than in the specimens with the shell preserved. Valves 

gibbous, most prominent, but not angular, along a line from the beaks 

to the postero-basal extremity, the posterior slope more abrupt than 

the anterior. Muscular impressions rather large, the posterior ones 

scarcely impressed and often scarcely distinguishable upon the casts; 

the anterior ones more strongly impressed. Each valve with a strong, 

somewhat curved cardinal tooth beneath the beak, with a pit for the 

reception of the tooth of the opposite valve ; in each valve is a single 

anterior and posterior, rather strong, lateral tooth, somewhat re- 

mote but nearly equidistant from the cardinal tooth. The inner free 

margin of the valves is crenate. Externally the shell is marked by 

flat, radiating cost= wider than the interspaces; from the interspaces 

rise rows of laterally compressed spinules or tubercles which are longer 

and stronger upon the anterior and posterior slopes towards the 

hinge extremities; on the central portion of the shell each third row 

of processes is more conspicuous than the two intervening rows, the 

spines being longer and larger, one of them occupying the space of 

two or three of the smaller ones of the intervening rows, the smaller 

ones sometimes being scarcely more than tubercles hut little elevated 

above the surface of the ribs of the shell; upon the anterior and post- 

erior slopes of the shell the rows of larger and smaller spines alternate, 

there being hut a single row of smaller spines between the lar, wes ones. 

Remarks.-This species is by far the commonest and most widely 

distributed Cardium in the Cretaceous faunas of New Jersey. It 

exhibits considerable variation, especially in the straightness of the 



posterior margin of the shell and in the prominence of the postero-basal 

extremity, but the casts can almost always be easily recognized by the 

strong convexity or gibbosity of the valves, and the abrupt posterior 

slope as compared with the anterior. The surface markings of the 

shell most closely resemble those of C. dumosum, but the radiating 

costre are comparatively broader and flatter with narrower interspaces, 

and consequently the spines upon the surface are more compressed 

laterally. C. dunzost~m is also more nearly equilateral, with less convex 

valves than this species, and does not attain so large a size. (Weller) 


MAOOTHY: 5 

MERCHANTVILLE: 8,10,15,16,17 

ENGLISHTOWN: 26 

MARSHALLTOWN: 27,28,31 

WENONAH: 35, 54 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINK: 37, 38, 39,40, 41,42, 47, 50 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, Mississippi, Tennessee. 

Type.-hfarlhoro, N. J. 

Cardium pilsbryi Weller 1907 


Cardium pilsbryi Weller, 1907, p. 594, pl. 65, figs. 11-12. 

Description.-Shell rather small, highest posteriorly, usually a 

little wider than high, the dimensions of one of the type specimens 

being: height, 19 mm. ; width, 21 mm. ; convexity of one valve, 9.5 mm. 

Anterior margin broadly rounded, passing regularly into the moder- 

ately convex basal margin; postero-basal extremity subangular; post- 

erior margin obliquely subtruncate or gently convex. Valves gibbous, 

most prominent along the rounded or subangular umbonal ridge, the 

post-umbonal slope abrupt, the anterior slope from the umbonal ridge 

convex; beaks rather small, incurved, directed anteriorly. Surface of 

the modified casts marked by rather fine radiating ribs. 

Remarks.-This species is known only from the somewhat modified . 

internal casts upon which the actual surface features of the shell are not 

preserved. The species can he distinguished from all other members 

of the genus in the New Jersey faunas by its comparatively small size, 

its low and broad form, and its strongly ventricose or gibbous valves. 

(Weller) 



Type.-Lenola, N. J. NJSM 7744. 



Cardium sayri Richards 1943 


Cardiuna (Granocardi~im) sauri Richards, 1943, p. 22, pl. 5, fig. 11. 

Descriptiun.-Shell moderately small; somewhat convex, suhovate, 

about twice as long as wide. Beak prominent, slightly incurved. Hinge 

not shown on type specimen. The surface is ornamented with about 

35 snlooth ribs vith rows of spines in the interspaces. The tops of the 

ribs are almost flat, and there is an indication of a fine line along the 

center of each rib. The ribs are slightly larger and more triangular in 

cross section toward both the anterior and posterior margin of the 

shell. Length 17.0 mm.; width 13.0 nlm. (Richards) 

Ren~urks.-This species differs fro111 other species of Granocardizim 

altliough it is fairly close to Cnrdiun% (Gmnocardiz~n~) dumost~m Conrad. 

It is, however, more ovoid and somelvhat larger. It is also related 

to Cardiunl (Granocardium) atlantieum Stephenson from 

Georges Bank. 

The position of the subgenus Granocardizim is fully discussed by 

Stephenson. (1941). 


RARITAN: la 

T,ype.-Sayreville, N. J. XJS3.I 10442. 

Cardium raritanensis Richards 1943 


Cardiun~ (Granocardium) raritanensis Richards, 1943, p. 22, pl. 5, 

fig. 14. 

Description.-Shell moderately large, probably sub-quadrate in 

outline. Beak prominently curved. Conspicuous fine ribs with rows of 

spines in the interspaces. The ribs are more numerotis than in C. sayri, 

also the beak is much more curved and the outline of the shell is more 

convex. The species resembles Cardi.urn (Granocardizcm) te?~uktri- 

atum \Vhitfield from the New Jersey Cretaceous but appears to have 

finer striations. Length 34.5 mm. ( Richards) 

Remarks.-Described from an imperfect specimen showing only a 

portion of the beak. It is much larger than C. sayri. Until better 

specimens arc found, it is impossible to discuss its relationships. 

Range is New Jersey- 

RARITAN : l a 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. XJSh110538. 

Protocardium jerseyensis Weller 1907 


Protocardiun~ jerseyensis Weller, 1907, p. 596, pl. 65, fig. 21. 



Protocardium jerseyensis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47. 

Description,.-Shell subglobular in form, small, the dimensions of 

the type specimen being: height, 8 mm.; width, 8.7 mm.; convexity of 

one valve 3.5 mm. Valves obscurely subquadrangular in outline, the 

antcrior margin rounding from beneath the heaks into the basal mar- 

gin, ventral margin rounded, becoming a little straighter posteriorly 

and curving rather abruptly into the nearly vertically subtruneate 

posterior margin, post-dorsal margin nearly straight and horizontal 

near the beaks, bending regularly downward into the posterior mar- 

gin behind. Valves regularly and strongly convex, slightly flattened 

in the internal casts on the post-l~mhonal slope. Beaks erect. nearly 

central in position. Surface of the shell marked by very fine, regular, 

concentric, depressecl lines or grooves which become nearly or qnite 

obsolete on the post-umbonal slope, also by very fine, regnlar, radiat- 

ing costre, which are conspicuous upon the post-umbonal slope, he- 

coming obscure or entirely ohsolctc in front of thc nmbonal ridge. 

Ren~arks.-This species is characterized by its small size, the speci- 

men whose dimensions have been given heing one of the largest oh- 

served. The character of the surface markings is shown in several 

natural impressions of the esterior. (Wellcr) 


MERCBATTVILLE: 8, 10,16 


T,ype.-Near Jameshurg, N. J. NJSM 8977. 

Fulvia tenuiri Whitfield 1886 

. Plate 3$, Figure 11 

Ptilvia tennis Whitfield, 1886, p. 139, pl. 20, fig. 8. 

Puluia tenxis Weller, 1907, p. 597, pl. 66, fig. 8. 

Doscription.-"Shell rather small, but little exceeding an inch 

: ' in length by about half that height; transversely elliptical in outline, 

and but moderately convex. Beaks very small, appressed, and but 

very slightly projecting beyond the hinge margin. Anterior end of the 

shell the shortest, obtusely pointed,or sharply rounded at its extremity, 

/ which is situated much above the middle of the height; posterior end 

more broadly rounded ; basal line strongly areuate and. rapidly as- 

cending toward the anterior part. Hinge-line but little declining on 

either side of the beak. Surface of the valve marked by radiating plica- 

tions which are very fine at the anterior end, and gradually increase 

in strength to the extreme posterior margin, where they must have 

: been fully one-sixteenth of an inch wide (the shell being broken at 

this point). Plieations flattened obliquely, so as to give the antcrior 

side a much greater abruptness and only about one-third the *dtb 

-.of the posterior side. A few concentric undulations mark the surface, 



and very fine concentric strire cover the entire shell." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-This species was established by Whitfield upon a single, 

rather imperfect cast of a right valve, and no additional specimens 

have been met with in the more recent collections of the Survey. 



T?/pe.-Holmdel, N. J. I\'JSDC 7588. 

Family Isocardiidae 

Isocardia cliffwoodensis Weller 1905 


Isocardin cliffwoodensis Weller, 1905, ;Tour. Geol., vol. 13, p. 326, 

figs. 1-3. 

Zsocardia cliffzrtoodensis Weller, 1907, p. 598, pl. 66, figs. 10-12. 

Description.-Shell subovate in outline, the dimensions of two type 

specimens being: length, 18.5 mm. and 15.5 mm. ; height, 14.5 mm. and 

14 mm. ; convexity of one valve, 6.5 mm. ~md 6.5 mm. Anterior margin 

rounding regularly from beneath the beak into the ventral margin 

or sometimes a little more sharply rounded in the middle; ventral 

margin broadly rounded ; posterior margin rather sharply rounded 

below, sloping forward above to the posterior extremity of the hingeline 

with a gently convex curvature. Valves ventricose on the nmbo, the 

most prominent portion situated anterior to the middle of the shell, the 

beaks small, situated anteriorly, stro.ngly incurved and directed forward; 

the antero-umbonal slope abrupt, the posterior slope convex, 

becoming more abrupt as it approaches the posterior margin. Surface 

of the shell smooth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species has been observed in the New Jersey collections 

only in the form of internal casts. The species exhibits some 

individual variation, especially in the lengtb of the shell, as is indicated 

by the measurements given above of two of the type specimens, but 

in all other respects the characters are quite constant. Specimens 

from Corsieana, Texas, which Weller referred to this species were 

described as I. bulbosa by Stephenson (1942 p. 206) 


MAGOTHY: . ~ 5. 6 

, . 

WOODBURY :'19 

' :,I 

WENONAH : 35 

Type.-Matawan, N. J. NJSDf 7778,9570 (cotypes). 

Isocardia tintonensis Weller 1907 


Isocardia tintonensis Weller, 1907, p. 599, pl. 66, fig. 9. 


>' 

. 

'

PELECYPODA 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 

28 mm. ; height, 23 mm. ; convexity of one valve, 9.5 mm. Valves suh- 

triangular in outline, with prominent umbo and strongly ineurved 

beaks situated about three-sevenths of the length of the shell from the 

anterior extremity. The anterior margin rounding from beneath the 

beak into ,the ventral margin, the curvature sharpest at the most, 

anterior point, basal margin gently convex, curving upward in front 

and behind, the postero-basal extremity rather abruptly rounded into 

the posterior margin, which is obliquely subtruncate below and curv- 

ing forward above to the post-cardinal margin. Valves most prominent 

on and just below the umbo, the anterior slope abruptly convex; the 

posterior slope convex and rather gentle to the rounded umhonal ridge, 

beyond which it becomes very abrupt and a little concave, especially 

above. Surface of the internal east smooth, the shell itself probably 

marked by concentric lines of growth. (Weller) 


TINTON: 61 

Typo.-Beers Iiill, N. J. NJS M7509. 

Family Pollicidae 

Naritra polliciformis Stephenson 1954 


Naritra pollicifornlis Stephenson, 1954, p. 32, pl. 7, figs. 7-9. 

Descr~~tion.-"Six incomplete internal molds of a bivalve mol- 

lusk, 4 of right valves and 2 of left valves, in the collection from the 

southern pit of the New Jersey Clay Products Co. (USGS 19014), are 

suggestive in outline and form of the species Pollez obesus Stephen- 

son, from the Woodbine formation of Texas (Stephenson, 1952, pl. 23, 

figs. 14-20) hut, as previously stated, they possess hinge features that 

necessitate referring them to a different genus. 

Shell elongate-subovate, plump, inequilateral, equivalve. Umhonal 

region broad, beaks nonprominent, ineurved, prosogyrate, situated 

about 0.25 the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. There 

is a broad, very shallom radial depression extending from the beak 

to the ventral margin at ahout its midlength. Umbonal ridge broadly 

rounded and slightly humped centrally. The surface appears to be 

essentially smooth. 

The holotype, the best preserved mold of a right valve (pl. 7, fig. 7)', 

measures: Length 36+ mm, height 20 mm, convexity 6 mm." 

(Stephenson). 

Remarks.-Stephenson (1954, p. 31 erected the new genus A'aritra 

(by anagram from Raritan) for this species. For further description 

of hinge teeth and other characteristics, see generic description. 



Range in New Je~sey- 

RARITAN : lb 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. USNM 108638. 

Family Veneridae 

Tenea parilis (Conrad) 1860 


Nysia (Diplodonta) parilis Conratl, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

2nd ser., voi. 4, p. 278, pl. 46, fig. 16. 

Dosinia gabbi, Whitfield, 1886, p. 161, pl. 22, figs. 4-5. 

Tenea pingz~is, Whitfield, 1886, p. 163, pl. 22, figs. 1-2 (not fig. 3) 

Tenea parilis, Weller, 1907, p. 572, pl. 63, figs. 1-6. 

Te?loa parilis. Gardner, 1916, p. 661. 

Tenea parilis, Vade, 1926, p. 83, pl. 26, fig. 1. 

Teqiea pard&, Stephenson, 1941, p. 217, pl. 42, figs. 9-12. 

Tenea pardis, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47. 

Description.-Shell in large examples attaining a length and 

height of 38 mm.; the depth of each valve being 13 mm. The valres 

more or less strongly and evenly convex, subcircular, obscurely subquadrangular 

or subovate in outline, beaks prominent, directed forward, 

slightly incurved. The post-cardinal margin deeply inflected. 

Each valve furnished with two cardinal teeth and no laterals. Muscular 

impressions rather large but not deeply impressed, pallial line 

with a deep, narrow, acutely subangular sinus, whose inner extremity 

is directed towards a point between the beak and the anterior muscular 

impression. Surface of the shell nearly smooth, marked only by fine 


Remarks.-The type specimens of Imina ping& Con. and Mysia 

gibbosn Gabb, are certainly members of the same species, but that of 

Mysia parilis Con., seems to be a distinct form, although it has frequently 

been considered as a synonym of the others. Both species are 

here referred to the genus Tenea. T. pinguis has not been observed to 

grow as large as T. parilis; it is much more gibbous, the entire shell 

being aln~ost globular in form, and it seems to have been marked with 

stronger concentric lines of growth. The only authentic examples of 

the species seem to have come from the Naresink marl, while T. pardis 

occurs in the lower formations, although it has also been observed in 

the Red Bank sand. Whitfield's type of Dosinia gabbi is a good typical 

example of the form here considered as T. parilis, and one of the speei- 

Inens lie has illustr;~ted as T. pi?~gnis is also a typical representative of 

this species, althougl~ sonic\~hat more ovate than usual. The hinge 

characters have not been observed in any of the examples in the recent 

collections of the Survey, but the specin~en upon which the genus 



Tenea was established came from the Woodbury clay near Haddonfield 

where the fauna is essentially like that at Lorillard. The specimens 

of T. parilis from Lorillard are much larger than the type of the 

species, but there are specimens of the species in the National Museum 

from the typical locality in Tippah County, Mississippi, which are 

much larger than the type. Considerable individual variation is eshibited 

among different examples of the species, the more usual form 

is subcirc~llar or obscurely subqnadrangular, but occasionally one is 

met with which is more nearly subovate in outline. Many of the southern 

esan~ples of the species retain the shell itself, which is rery thin 

and marked only by fine, conccntric lines of gro~r.tli. (\fTeller) 

Rungo ill ATew JerseyblAGOTHT 

: 5 

JIEItCHANTVILLE : 10, 15 

' 

\TTOODBURY: 18, 19, 20, 24 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINE: 47 

RED BANK : 59 

TINTON : 62 

Rauge outside ~Vew Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, D. C., Tennessee, 

Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Texas. 

Typo.-Tippah County, Miss. ; ANSP Haddonfield, h'. J. ; 

ANSP 18i4i (cotypes). 

Tenea pinguis (Conrad) 1853 


Lucina pinguis Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 2, p. 275, pl. 24, fig. 18. 

~Mysia yibbosa, Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Xat. Sci. Phil., 2nd scr., vol. 4, 

p. 302, pl. 48, fig. 17 (not fig. 18). 

Tenen pinyuis, \Yhitfield, 1886, p. 163, pi. 22, fig. 3 (not figs. 1-2). 

Tenea piayz~is, Weller, 1907, p. 574, pl. 63, fig. 7. 

Description.-Shell small, the dilncnsions of one specimen being: 

height, 7 mm.; width, 8 mm.; thickness, 6 mm.; subcircular or obscurely 

subquadrangular in outline. Valves extremely ventricose or 

gibbous, giving to the entire shell a nearly globular form. Umbones 

rery prominent, the beaks incurved and directed forlvard. Surface 

of the shell marked by somewhat prominent concentric lines of grolrfth. 

Res&arks.-The relations of this species to T. parilk have been 

fully considercd in connection with the discussion of that species. It 

apparently diffcrs from T. parilis chiefly in its smallcr size, its greater 

gibbosity aucl its strunger conce~itrie lines of growth. (\Veller) , 

Ran.ge in flew Jersey- 

NAVESINK : 46 



Type.-(T. pinguis) New Jersey; ANSP 18745. 

(M. gibbosa) New Jersey; ANSP 18746. 

Dione delawarensis Gabb 1860 

Dione delawaremis Gabh, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd ser. 

vol. 4, p. 302, pl. 48, fig. 18. 

Dione delawarensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 153, pl. 22, figs. 8-9. 

(Not fig. 10 = Aphrodina eufaulemis Conrad) 

Description.-Shell subquadrate, beaks small, slightly incurved; 

umbones small, cardinal line gently curved. The pallial impression 

has a deep sinus; shell marked by concentric lines. (Gabb) 

Remarks.-The type specimen is a cast and its exact relationship 

is uncertain. The other specimen referred to D. delawarensis by Whit- 

field (figure 10) is probably Aphrodina eufaulensis Conrad. Qabb's 

text cites as the locality "Delaware and Chesapeake Canal and New 

Jersey." The Academy's type specimen is labelled New Jersey. 


Cyprimeria densata (Conrad) 1853 


Tellina densata Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 2, p. 275, pl. 24, fig. 14. 

Cyprin~eria densata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 15'7 (part), 111. 22, figs. 20-21, 

(not 19). 

Lucina snwckana Whitfield, 1886, p. 130, pl. 18, figs. 21-22. 

Cyprimeria heilprini Whitfield, 1886, p. 160, pl. 22, figs. 14-15. 

Cyprlmeria densata, Weller, 1907, p. 601, yl. 68, fig. 14; pl. 69, figs. 1-2. 

Des~ription~Shell attaining a length of 81 mm., a height of 66 

mm., and a thickness of 25 mm. in the type specimen, the proportion 

of height to length being as 1 : 1.23 in the internal cast, were the actual 

shell preserved the height would be somewhat greater. Beaks situated 

about two-fifths of the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. 

Anterior and basal margins rounded, posterior margin broadly truncate 

at nearly right angles to the longitudinal axis of the shell, posterior 

cardinal margin nearly straight or slightly arcuate. 

Remarks.-This species is especially characterized by the broad, 

vertical, posterior truncation of the shell. It also attains a larger size 

than other species in the New Jersey faunas, although Conrad's type 

specimen, whose dimensions are given, is probably above the average 

size. 

The shells described by Whitfield as Cyprimeria heilprini and 

Lucina smockana have the same broad posterior truncation as the type 

of C. densata; the types have been carefully examined and they do not 


PELECYF'ODA 

dBer in any essential respect from C. densata and are certainly only 

smaller individuals of the same species. 

This species should he compared with C. cretacea from the Wood- 

bury clay, but it is proportionally a somewhat higher and shorter 

species and the posterior truncation of the shell is much broader. 

(Weller) 


MERCHANTVILLE : 14, 15 



Type.-(C. densata) Burlington County, N. J. ANSP 18773. 

(C. heilpn'ni) Crosswicks, N. J. ANSP 18771. 

(L. smockana) New Jersey; ANSP 18750. 

Cyprimeria excavata (Morton) 1833 


Cythere excavata Morton, 1833, Am. Joor. Sci., 1st ser., vol. 23, p. 292, 

pl. 5, fig. 1. 

Cyprimeria ezcavata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 159, pl. 22, figs. 16, 17. 

Cyprimeria spissa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 160, pl. 22, fig. 18. 

Cyprimeria excavata, Weller, 1907, p. 602, pl. 67, figs. 1-6. 

Cyprimeria ezcavata, Oroot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 47, pl. 5, 

fig. 12. 

Description.-Shell, in the largest specimen observed, attaining a 

height of 55 mm., and a length of 60 mm. The proportions of height 

to length in ten individuals vary from 1 : 1.08 to 1 : 1.20. The average 

proportions of the ten individuals being 1 : 1.14.. The varying propor- 

tions of height to length is in no way correlated with the growth or 

size of the individuals. The position of the beaks varies in the same 

ten individuals from .32 to .47 of the length of the shell from the 

anterior extremity, the average position being .38+. 

The anterior margin.of the shell is broadly rounded, passing into 

the rounded basal margin, posteriorly the margin is usually obtusely 

subangular as it passes from the basal to the posterior region, the 

posterior margin being subtruncate below and directed posteriorly 

backward from the posterior extremity of the basal margin; at about 

the middle of the height of the shell, above the truncate region, the 

margin bends somewhat abruptly forward and passes to the beak in a 

long gentle curve, the curvature somewhat increasing as it approaches 

the beak. In some individuals the post cardinal slope is slightly humped 

towards the beak by reason of a rather abrupt change in the curvature. 

Behind the beaks the margins of the valves are strongly and abrnptly 

inflected to form a deeply excavated escutcheon. Valves depressed 



convex, the left valve less convex than the right. Beaks of the two 

valves nearly in contact, lunule obsolete. 

The surface of each valve towards the umbo is marked by fine, 

regular, concentric costa for a distance of from five to ten millimeters 

from the beak, from five to eight of the costa! occupying the space of 

one millimeter. Beyond the umbonal region the surface is marked by 

more or less irregular concentric lines of growth, which increase in 

number and become ktronger toward the outer margin of adult individuals. 

On t,he posterior port,ion of the valves an arcuate, suhtriangular 

area extending from the beak to the sub-truncate posterior 

margin, is more or less sharply differentiated from the remaining surface 

of the valve by reason of the greater roughness of the concentric 

lines of growth, this region usnally being more sharply differentiated 

in the left than in the right valre. 

Remarlis.-This species is n~1:ll represented in the collection by 

specinlens from near S~esileshoro preserving thc shell suhstanee. It 

differs from C. clc?~satn in the lower, narrower, and oblique posterior 

truncation of the shell, and from C. cretocca in its relatively shorter 

and higher form, in its larger size and its rougher concentric lines of 

growth and its finer concentric umbonal costa. Besides the Swedesboro 

specimens the species is known from Nsn. Jersey in thc form of internal 

casts from the Navesink marl. The specimen from the Navesink marl 

at Holmdel, referred to C. spissa by Whitfield, must also be included in 

this species. The type of C.spissn has apparently been lost or destroyed, 

but it probably came from the Navesink marl of the Crosswick Creek 

section and was probably also a member of this species. (Weller) 



NAVESINK : 41 

Range outside Few Jersey: Delaware, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, 

Arkansas. 

Type.-Arneytown, N. J. ANSP 18774. 

Cyprirneria depressa Conrad 1860 


Dosinia depressa Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd. ser. 

vol. 4, p. 278, pl. 46, fig. 6. 

9 Sa?tgt~i?tolaria cretaccnsis Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila. 

2nd ser. vol. 4, pl. 46, fig. 11. 

? Dosiniu 7~addonfieldensi.s Lea, 1861, Proc. Acad. Kat. Sci. Phila. vol. 

13, p. 149. 

B Cyprimeria cretacensir, Conrad, 1867, Amer. Jour. Conch. vol. 3, 

p. 9. 

Cyprirneria cretacea, Conrad, 1869, Amer. Jour. Conch. vol. 5, p. 98, 

pl. 9, fig. 12. 


PELECYPODA 

Cypr


Description.-"Shell moderately thick, broadly subovate in outline, 

depressed convex, bent a little to the left posteriorly. Beak very small, 

not prominent, pointing forward, situated about .45 the length of the 

shell from the anterior extremity. Dimensions of the type: Length 

42 mm., height 35 mm. Hinge normal. 

Antero-dorsal margin broadly arched ; anterior margin broadly and 

regularly curved; ventral margin very broadly and regularly curved; 

posterior extremity slightly narrower than the anterior and slightly 

truncated, the truncation inclining slightly forward; postero-dorsal 

margin truncated or only slightly convex, inclined at a small angle 

from the horizontal. 

Surface slightly waterwoin, but apparently marked by fine in- 

cremental lines which become a little coarser toward the base." 

Remarks.-Closely related to C. depressa, from which it differs in 

its greater height and more broadly oval outline, the absence of a hump 

on the posterior dorsal margin and the more nearly horizontal direction 

of the truncation on this margin. The specimen figured by WeUer under 

the name C. cretacea Conrad from Lorillard, N. J. (Woodbury forma- 

tion) is questionably referred to C. welleri by Stephenson, though its 

postero-dorsal margin appears to incline a little more strongly and the 

truncation of the posterior margin is narrower. 


MAGOTEY: 6 

NOODBURY: 18, 19, 20, 24 

WENONAH : 35 

Range outside New Jersey: North Carolina. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. USNM 31787. 

Aphrodina tippana jerseyensir Richards new subspecies 

Plate 34, Figure'5 

Aphrodina tippana Whitfield, 1886, p. 154, pl. 22, figs. 6, '7 (not 

A. tippana Conrad 1868). 

Meretk tippana, Weller, 1907, p. 607 (part) pl. 68, fig. 3 (not 

figs. 1,2 = A. tippana Conrad). 

Various poorly preserved casts have been referred to A. tippana 

Conrad, hut as pointed out by Oardner and others, the New Jersey 

specimens seem to show at least a subspecific difference. The subspecific 

name jerseyensis is therefore proposed for these specimens. They differ 

from typical A. tippana in their shorter, relatively higher outline and 

the less produced, more broadly rounded posterior end. 

The type specimen measures 33.0 mm. by 26.5 mm. and was collected 

by T. A. Conrad. 


PELECYPODA 



WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-"New Jersey"; ANSP 19408. 

Aphrodina cretacea (Conrad) 1870 


Aeora cretacea Conrad, 1870, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 6, p. 72, pl. 3, fig. 8. 

Aeora cretacea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 167, pl. 23, figs. 16-17. 

Meretriz cretacea, Weller, 1907, p. 608, pl. 68, figs. 4-7. 

Meretriz cretacea, Gardner, 1916, p. 679. 

Description.-Shell below medium size, the dimensions of an aver- 

age example are : height, 16.5 mm. ; approximate length, 23 mm. ; con- 

vexity of one valve, 5 mm.; somewhat triangularly subelliptical in 

outline. Valves moderately convex, beaks small, situated anterior to the 

midd!e; antero-cardinal margin concave; anterior margin rather 

sharply rounded above, curving more gently below and passing with- 

out interruption into the broadly rounded ventral margin; posterior 

margin rather short, obscurely subtruncate; post-cardinal margin long, 

gently convex, meeting the antero-cardinal margin at the beak in an 

angle of about 120'. Postero-cardinal margin somewhat inflected, 

especially towards the beak; antero-cardinal margin inflected in front 

of the beak to form a shallow lunule of moderate width. Surface of 

shell marked by more or less irregular, concentric lines of growth 

only. Hinge of the left valve with three cardinal teeth diverging from 

beneath the beak, the two anterior ones of about equal length, extending 

directly beneath the beak with a triangular pit between them, the 

posterior one much more oblique and more elongate. In front of the 

cardinal teeth is a single low lateral beneath the lunule and parallel 

with the shell margin. In the right valve there are two divergent, bifid 

cardinal teeth with a pit beneath the lunule for the reception of the 

anterior lateral tooth of the opposite valve. (Weller) 

Renlarks: This species was formerly common in the Marsballtown 

formation at Swedesboro. It is about half the size of A. tippana Conrad 

(and A. tippana jerseyensis Richards). Also its hinge teeth are differ- 

ent, the bifid anterior cardinal tooth of the right valve (not left as 

stated by Conrad) is quite different from that of A. tippana. 


WOODBURY: 24 



T,ype.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 4143. 



Aphrodina eufaulensis (Conrad) 1860 


Callista e?cfazclensis Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 282, pl. 46, fig. 24. 

Callisto delawarensis, Whitfield, 1886, p. 153, pl. 22, fig. 10. 

(Xot figs. 8-9 = Dione delawarensis.) 

Jferetrix ezlfalrlensis, Weller, 1907, p. 609, pl. 68, figs. 8-10. 

Jreretriz e~cfazdensis, Wade, 1926, p. 80: pl. 28, figs. 3-4. 

Description.-The dimensions of a very perfect left v;llve are : height, 

16 mm. ; length, 19 mm.; convexity? 4 mln. Shell suhovate in outline; 

the beaks at about the anterior third, rather small, directed anteriorly, 

scarcely incurved. Antero- cardinal margin concave just in front of 

the beak; anterior? ventral, postern-cardinal margins convex; the pos- 

terior margin broader than the anterior. Valves regularly convex, 

the wrface sloping more abruptly to the cardinal margins; in front of 

the beaks is a narrow, scarcely impressed lunnle. Hinge of the left 

valve with two cardinal teeth diverqing from beneath the beak, leaving 

a triangular pit betxvecn, and a much thinner, more elongate tooth 

directed obliquely backn.ard close up to the ligamental area; in front of 

the cardinal teeth is a single strong lateral tooth beneath the lunnle, 

parallel with the shell margin. Surface of the shell marlced by fine, con- 

centric st,rize of growth, those covering the area from the beak downward 

about 10 or 12 millimeters are very regular, the interspaces gradually in- 

creasing until thc onter ones are about one-half millimeter apart,. Be- 

yond this regularly marked arca the lines of growth are less conspicuous 

and not so regular. 

Remarks.-The specimens which have heen taken as typical repre- 

sentatives of this species are from the hlarshalltown clay-marl near 

Smedesboro. and have the shells perfectly preserved. They agree closely 

with TVhitficld's figure 10, a specimen from Holmdel retaining the 

shell, hut referred by that author to Callista delawarensis, probably 

incorrectly. (Weller) 

Range in New Jersey-- 

BZARSHALLTOWN : 28 

WEWONAH : 34 

MT. IAUREL-NAVESINK: 46,47 

Range ontside New Jersey: Alabama, Tennessee 

Type.-Eufaula, Ala. 

Callistina ? johnsoni (R,ichards) 1943 


Aphrodina johnsoni Richards, 1943, p. 24, pl. 4, figs. 3-4. 

Callistifla johnsoni, Stephenson, 1954, p. 34, pl. 7, fig. 18-21. 


Description.-Shell moderately large, subtriangular; conspicu- 

ously striated concentrically; type with about 35 striations, closer to- 

gether near the beak. Valves convex; beak nearly central, very slightly 

incurved. Hinge not visible on any specimens. Length 23.0 mm. ; width 

21.0 mm. 

Resembles A. tippana (Conrad) in general shape hut distinguished 

by its conspicuous concentric striations. Another related form is A. 

regia Conrad from the Cretaceous of North Carolina, South Carolina, 

Georgia, Alabama, and Dfississippi, but this latter species differs by its 

much larger size and its lack of uniform concentric striations. The 

markings on the shell of A. joknsoni resemble those of 12lcretriz etcfaal- 

ensis (Conrad) from Coon Creek, Tennessee, although the curved shape 

of the margins of the shell suggests a relationship closer to Aphrodina. 

One individual (NJSRf 10446; pl. 4, fig. 3) may possibly represent 

a variety, but more probably is merely a crushed individual of the 

typical species. 

Named in honor of Meredith E. Johnson, New Jersey State Geolo- 

gist. 


RARITAN: la, lb. 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. KJSDf 10454. 

Legumen planulatum Conrad 1853 


Solyma planulata Conrad, 1853, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd ser. 

Vol. 2, p. 274, pl. 24, fig. 11. 

Not Legzcmcn plann~latun~, Whitfield, 1886, pl. 25, figs. 3, 4 = 

L. ellipticum. 

Not Legumen planulatum, Weller, 1907, p. 612, pl. 69, figs. 3,4 

= L. concentricum Stephenson ? 

Description.-"Elliptical, compressed, sides flattened; end margins 

rounded ; hinge and basal margins nearly parallel. '' (Conrad) 

Remarks.-L. planulatum was based on an internal cast from "hfonmouth 

County, New Jersey." According to Stephenson this name cannot 

be applied with certainty to any other than the original type since 

it might be the internal mold of any one of several species of Legumen. 


MONMOUTH COUNTY 

Range outside Ncw Jersev: Alabama. 

Legumen concentricum Stephenson 1923 


Legumen appressum Whitfield, 1886, p. 185, pl. 25, figs. 6-8. 



Legumen planulatum Weller, 1907 (part), p. 612, pl. 69, figs. 7 

questionably, 5, 6, (not 3,4 = L. ellipticum Conrad). 

Legunten concentricum Stephenson, 1923, p. 319, pl. 80, figs. 6-9. 

Legumen concentricunt Groot, Organist and Stephenson, 1954, p. 48. 

Description.-"Shell thin, greatly elongated, subelliptical, inequi- 

lateral, compressed; beaks not prominent, approximate, somewhat vari- 

able in position on different individuals, but as a rule situated about 

one-fourth the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Dimen- 

sions of the type : Length 43 mm., height 16 mm., convexity 3 mm. Dim- 

ensions of another larger specimen: Length 71 mm., height 22 mm., 

convexity 3.5 mm. 

Dental formula L. 101010. The posterior cardinal tooth of the 

R. 010101. 

right valve is narrowly bifid and very oblique, being nearly parallel 

to the postero-dorsal margin; the two anterior cardinals are close 

together, prominent, nearly vertical, and separated from the posterior 

cardinal by a wide, deep socket with floor sloping to the interior of 

the shell. Lateral teeth wanting. The anterior cardinal tooth of the 

left valve is set between two profound sockets; the two posterior 

cardinals are long, oblique, narrow, and are separated by a narrow 

socket not as deep as the two anterior sockets. Neither lunule nor 

escutcheon is present. Ligamental groove deeply impressed, extending 

about one-third the distance to the posterior extremity. 

Postero-dorsal margin long, straight, nearly horizontal; posterior 

margin sharply rounded; ventral margin long, slightly convex, nearly 

parallel with the postero-dorsal margin; anterior margin more sharply 

rounded than the posterior; antero-dorsal margin descending, slightly 

convex. The outline of the shell varies somewhat in form on different 

individuals. 

Surface marked by strong, nearly regular, concentric ridges, sep- 

arated by narrow, rather deepIy impressed depressiom; the ridges are 

wider on the posterior portion of the shell and on the postero-dorsal 

slope of the large individuals assume the form of imbricating lamellae." 

(Stephenson) 

Remarks.-Closely related to and probably the ancestor of L. ellipti- 

cum Conrad. L. concentricum is distinguished from L. ellipticum by 

its much stronger and coarser concentric sculpture. Both forms are 

variable in outline, but the beak of L. concentricum is in general a little 

farther removed from the anterior extremity. 


WOODBURY: 24 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, North Carolina. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N: C.; USNM 31798. 



Legumen ellipticum Conrad 

Plate 36, ,Figure 3 

Legumen ellipticum Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 2nd ser. 

Vol. 3, p. 325, pl. 34, fig. 19. 

Legmen elliptimm Whitfield, 1886, p. 184, pl. 25, fig. 5. 

? Legz~men plan~~latnrn Whitfield, 1686, p. 184, pl. 25, figs. 3, 4. 

f Legumen planulatum Weller, 1907, p. 612 (part) pl. 69, questionably 

figs. 3-4 (not 5-7 = L. concentricum Stephenson). 

Legumen planz~latum Gardner, 1916, p. 684, pl. 40, figs. 5-7. 

Legumen plnnulatz~m Wade, 1926, p. 90, pl. 29, fig. 1. 

Descn'ption.-"Oblong, very inequilateral, very thin; valves flattened 

or contracted obliquely from beak to base, concentrically lineated ; 

heak not prominent ahove the hinge line, apex acute; ends regularly 

and near equally rounded; posterior extremity situated much more 

nearly on a line with the hinge than the ventral margin." (Conrad) 

Remarks.-See under L. concentricum Stephenson. 


NAVESINK: 43 (9) 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, 

Alabama, Tennessee. 


Tellina georgiana Qahh 1876 


Tellina georgiana Gahh, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 307. 

Tellina georgiena, Weller, 1907, p. 615, pl. 70, figs. 1-2. 

Tellika (Acropagia) georgiena, Gardner, 1916, p. 692. 

Description.-The dimensions of two specimens are: length, 32 mm. 

and 46 mm. ; height, 16 mm. and 23 mm. Shell very broadly snhtri- 

angular in outline, the beaks nearly central, and pointing a little back- 

ward. the greatest anterior extension at about the mid-height of th? 

shell, the greatest posterior extension considerably below the middle. 

The anterior and posterior cardinal margins meeting at the heak in an 

angle of about 140" to 150°, curving gently downward in front and 

behind ; anterior margin rather sharply rounded ; ventral margin very 

long and gently convex; postero-basal extremity,sharply rounded or 

subangular; posterior margin nearly vertically subtruncate below, 

cnrving forward ahove and passing into the cardinal margin. Valves 

depressed cbnvex, with a suhangnlar umbonal ridge extending from 

the beak to the postero-basal extremity, the surface sloping with a very 

gentle convex curve to the anterior, posterior and ventral margins; 

curving much more abruptly to the cardinal margins, hut just before 



reaching the margin the surface is deflected in the casts so as to form 

a rather narrow flattened area extending from the beak in each direc- 

tion and gradually dying out hef6re reaching the anterior and pos- 

terior extremities of the shell ; just beneath the beak this flattened area 

bears the impressions of the hinge-teeth. Surface of the casts smooth 

except for a few very faint and indistinct radiating cost= just above the 

postero-cardinal slope of the valves. Pallial sinus very deep, extending 

beyond the middle of the shell. Hinge-teeth small and weak, situated 

just beneath the beak, a single one in the left valve with a socket on 

either side, and two in the right valve with a deep socket between. 

Remarks.-Besides several fragments, two good internal casts of 

this species are present in the collection. The larger of these, a left 

valve, has lost the anterior extremity of the shell, and the smaller one, 

a right valve, is injured at its posterior extremity. Between the two, 

however, all the characters of the shell can he seen. Because of the 

imperfection of the specimen, the longitudinal dimension of the larger 

specimen, given above, is subject to slight error, hut the smaller one is 

complcte enough for accurate measurement. In the Weconah sand near 

blarlboro several fragments of a large Tellina-like shell have been col- 

lected which resemble this one, the largest of which must have been 

about 60 mm. in length when complete. These specimens from near 

Marlboro, however, although internal casts, have had the external 

markings of the shell impressed upon them by the compression of the 

soft imbedding material after the solution of the shell itself. These 

markings are regular concentric limes from one-half to one millimeter 

apart. It is not possible to determine whether or not the type of the 

species was marked in a similar manner. These specimens have been 

compared with Gabb's types of the species in the collection of the 

Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, and there can be no question as to 

their specific identity. (Weller) 


WENONAH: 35,40 

Range outside New Jersw: Maryland, Georgia. 

Type.-Pataula Creek, Ga. ; ANSP 18791. 

Tellina gabbi Gardner 1916 

Plate 35, Figure 2; Plate 36, Figures 6,7 

Peronaeoderma georgiana Gahh, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

p. 308. 

Peronaeodern~a georgiana, Weller, 1907, p. 617, pl. 70, figs. 4-6. 

Tellina (Acropagia) gabbi, Gardner, 1916, p. 694, pl. 42, fig. 2. 

Description.-The dimensions of a small specimen are: length, 24 

mm.; height, 14.5 mm. Shell broadly subtriangular in outline, nearly 

equilateral, the beak nearly central in position. Anterior and posterior 



cardinal margins sloping nearly synmetrieally, meeting at the beak 

in an angle of about 133'; anterior and ~osterior margins both sharply 

rounded and nearly symmetrical, the greatest extension considerably 

below the middle of the shell; the posterior margin sometimes appear- 

ing to be obliquely subtruncate above; basal margin gently convex 

throughout, curving upward a little more strongly in front and behind. 

Valves depressed convex, most prominent between the beaks and the 

center of the shell, the surface curving somewhat abruptly to the 

cardinal margins, very gently to the anterior, posterior and ventral 

margins. Upon the post-cardinal slope just within the cardinal margin 

and subparallel with it, is a narrow and shallow sinus which has a 

slight downward curvature posteriorly and becomes extinct before 

reaching the posterior margin. Surface of the shell marked by regular, 

concentric lines, two or three of which occupy the space of one milli- 

meter. (Weller) 

Ren~arks.-Weller suggested that this might properly belong'in the 

genus Tellina, but hesitated to reassign it because the name T. georgiana 

was preoccupied. Gardner reaffirmed the generic relationship and pro- 

posed the name T. gabbi. 


WOODBURY: 19 

WENONAH : 35 

RED BANK: Shrewsbury River 

Range outside New Jersey: hlaryland, Georgia. 

Type.-Pataula Creek, Ga. ; ANSP 18792. 

Linearia metastriata Conrad 1860 


Linearia metastriata Conrad, 1860, Jour. cad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 279, pl. 46, fig. 7. 

Linearia metastriata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 165, pl. 23, figs. 6-7. 

Linearia nletastriata, Weller, 1907, p. 616, pl. 70, figs. 8-9. 

Linearia metastriata, Stephenson, 1923, 11. 329, pl. 84, figs. 1-5. 

Linearia ntetastriata, Wade, 1926, p. 93, pl. 31, figs. 1-2. 

Linearia metastriata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48, pl. 5, 

fig. 8. .. '1 I fb$llBi 

Description.-The dimensions of a large individual are : length, 25 

mm. ; height, 16 mm. Shell subelliptical in outline, depressed convex. 

Beaks small, appressed, but little elevated above the hinge-line, situated 

nearly centrally. Hinge-line a little areuate; anterior and posterior 

cardinal margins meeting at the beak in an angle of about 145"; 

anterior and posterior margins both rounded, the anterior a little high- 

er than the posterior; basal margin broadly convex. Valves nearly 



regularly convex, the surface sloping more abruptly to the cardinal 

margin. Surface of the shell marked by h e concentric ribs increasing 

regularly in size and separated by sharply depressed furrows about 

equaling the ribs in width; also by radiating furrows which cut through 

the concentric ridges, giving them more or less the appearance of rows 

of discontinuous nodes, the radiating furrows are much stronger and 

more conspicuous upon the anterior and posterior portions of the shell, 

becoming fainter or sometimes almost obsolete upon the central portion, 

the furrows on the anterior part are further apart than upon the posterinr 

portion of the shell. 

Remarks.-The characteristic features of the surface markings of 

this shell make it very easily recogniz,able. It occurs most commonly 

in the form of casts of the interior and impressions of the external 

surface, but these latter specimens almost always retain the peculiar 

surface markinas. - . (Weller) 


WENONAH : 35 

RED BANK: 59 

L2ange outside New Jelaey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, 

South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee. 

Type.-Eufaula, Ala. ANSP 1 

Linearia ornatissima Weller 1907 


Linenvia ornatissima Weller, 1907, p. 619, pl. 70, figs. 10-12. 

finearia ornatissima, Wade, 1926, p. 94, pl. 30, figs. 6-7. 


being: length, 6 mm. ; height, 4.3 mm. ; nearly equilateral, broadly sub- 

triangular in outline with the basal angles rounded; beak central; the 

cardinal margins meeting at the beak in an angle of about 120°, anterior 

and posterior margins subequally rounded, their greatest extension 

below the mid-height of the shell; ventral margin gently convex. Valves 

depressed convex, most prominent on the umbo, the surface sloping 

abruptly to the cardinal margins and gently to the lateral and basal 

margins. Surface marked by strong radiating ribs anteriorly and 

post?riorly, which gradually become fainter towards the median portion 

of the ventral margin; on the umbo and on an area extending ventrally 

fro- the umbo nearly to the basal margin, the shell is smooth; the 

anterior and posterior ribs do not continue to the beak but disappear 

along the margins of the central smooth area; all the ribbed portion of 


PELECWODA 233 

the ahell is also marked by strong, regular, concentric costre, somewhat 

stronger in the depressions between the ribs than upon the ribs them- 

selveq. 

Remarks.-But two specimen of this beautiful little species have 

been observed, casts of the interior of the shell ant1 impressions of the 

exterior. It is possible that other specimens may have attained a 

larger size. The species may be recognized by its beautifully cancellated 

anterior and posterior regions separated by the smooth median area. 

Thr.?.e markings are proportionally much stronger than in L. metas- 

triata, with the contrast betmeen the extremities and the median portion 

of the shell much greater; besides its smaller size the species also differs 

from L. metastriata in the greater slope of the cardinal margins, and 

the lower position of the greatest anterior and posterior extremities 

of the shell. The hinge characters of the shell have not been observed, 

the generic identification heing based solely upon its general form and 

ornamentation. (Weller) The Coon Creek, Tennessee specimens are 

somemhat larger and marc highly sculptured on the umbonal region. 


WOODBURY: 18,19,24 

Range outside Nozu Jersey: Tennessee, Mississippi. 

Type.-Lorillard, N. J. ; NJSRI 9603. 

Linearia contracta Whitfield 1886 


Linearia contracta Whitfield, 1886, p. 167, pl. 23, fig. 5 

Linearia contracta, Weller, 1907, p. 620, pl. 70, fig. 13. 

Description.-"Shell small and moderately convex, transversely 

ovate in outline, hroad in front and abruptly contracted behind the 

beaks, the anterior end forming about three-fifths of the shell's length. 

Beaks small and inconspicuous, Anterior end broadly rounded and 

the posterior more narrowly rounded. Basal line broadly curved. 

Surface of the shell as seen in a matrix, marked by fine radiating strile 

iohieh extend over the entire surface, but are less strongly developed 

on the middle of the valve. Also marked by fine concentric grooves 

parallel to the margin of the shell." (Whitfield.) 

Remarks.-"This species differs from L. metastriata in being pro- 

portionally longer, in the abrupt contraction of the posterior end, in 

its ovate instead of oval form, greater convexity, and in heing marked 

by radiating striz throughout instead of having the central part of 

the valve nearly or quite destitute of this marking." (Whitfield.) 

This species has not been met with in any of the recent collections 

of the Survey, and Whitfield's type specimen seems to have been lost 

or destroyed. It is altogether probable that the specimen was an ab- 

normal or perhaps distorted individual of L. metastriata. (\veller. 




NAVESINK : 41 

Type.-Holmdel, N. J. NJSM 7602. 

Linearia limlifera Stephenson 1954 


Linearia lirulifera Stephenson, 1954, p. 34, pl. 7, figs. 22-25. 

Description.-"Internal and external molds of this species are common 

in ths southern pit of the New Jersey Clay Products Co. (TJSGS 

19014). The shell, as indicated by molds, is of medium size, suhovate 

elongate, compressed, suhcquilateral, equivalve. Beaks slightly prominent, 

incurved, very slightly prosogyrate, situated centrally. Umbonal 

ridge broadly rounded. Main lateral surface most inflated centrally 

above the midheight, rounding off gently to the anterior and ventral 

margins. Posterodorsal slope flattish. Anterodorsal margin broadly 

arched, descending; anterior margin rounded less than a semicircle; 

ventral margin broadly rounded; posterior margin rounding up uniformly, 

meeting the hinge line at an obtuse angle; posterodorsal margin 

long, straight, gently descending. The two dorsal margins meet 

at the beak at an angle'of about 130 degrees. 

The lateral surface between the dorsal slopes bears numerous narrow, 

sharply defined, regularly spaced concentric lirae, separated liy 

wider interspaces; near the beak these number 5 to the millimeter in 

the radial direction but increase in coarseness to about 2 to the millimeter 

near the ventral margin ; these lirae merge into growth lines only 

on the posterodorsal slope, and become weaker forward on the anterodorsal 

slope. The latter slope bears 8 to 10 or more, relatively strong, 

radiating lirae, noded at the intersections with the concentric lirae; 

away from the beak the number of lirae increases by the introduction 

of secondary lirae in the interspaces. The posterodorsal slope and umbonal 

ridge are ornamented with similar radiating ribs which number 

as many as 20 near the posterior margin; these become weaker forward 

from the umbonal ridge and the main lateral surface exhibits only weak 

to obscure radial lining. 

Dimensions of the incomplete holotype, a left valve: Length 23+ 

mm, height 17.5 mm, convexity about 4 mm. 

The available material affords only imperfect, incomplete imprints 

of the hinge features. The internal mold of the holotype, however, 

indicates the presence of a pair of cardinal teeth in the right valve 

directed obliquely forward and downward, and short, distant anterior 

and posterior laterals in the left valve-features characteristic of the 

genus Linearia Conrad. Other internal features are not clearly registered 

on the molds." (Stephenson) 

Range in NEW Jersey - 

RARITAN: 1 

T,ype.-Sayreville, N. J. USNM 108650. 



Tellinimem eborea (Conrad) 1860 


Tellina (Tellinimera) eborea Conrad, 1860, Jour. Aead, Nat. Sci. Phil., 

2nd ser., vol. 4, p. 278, pl. 46, fig. 14. 

Tellimera eborea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 164, pl. 23, figs. 12-13. 

Tellinimera eborea, Weller, 1907, p. 621, pl. 70, figs. 14-23. 

Tellinimera eborca, Gardner, 1916, p. 695, pl. 42, figs. 5-6. 

Tellinimera eborea, Wade, 1926, p. 92. 


13.5 mm. ; height, 9 mm. ; convexity, 2 mm. Shell triangularly subovate 

or very broadly subtriangular, depressed convex. Beaks small, appressed, 

situated considerably hack of the middle of the shell. Anterior 

and posterior cardinal slopes meeting at the beak in an angle of about 

140' ; anterior margin rounded; basal margin broadly convex ; posterior 

margin subtruneate below. A rounded ill-defined umbonal ridge extends 

from the beak to the postero-basal extremity; the posterior slope 

short, more or less abrupt, often some\vhat flattened; the anterior slope 

very long and gently convex, becoming somewhat abrupt towards the 

antero-cardinal margin. Surface of the shell marked by fine coneentrio, 

impressed lines at regularly increasing distances apart, which are 

bent ahri~ptly upward in crossing the umbonal ridge. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This species has been observed most commonly in the 

Wenonah sand near Marlboro, in the form of internal casts. These 

casts rarely retain the surface markings of the shell, but these eharaeters 

can be clearly seen on the Haddonfield specimen. In its general 

form end size this species closely resembles the shells described as 

Aenona eufaulensis, but when the shell substance is preserved the two 

species may be distinguished by the presence of the fine, regular, eoncentric 

marking on T. eborea. T. eborea is also more compressed and 

more inequilateral than Aenona eufaulensis. 



WOODBURY: 2A 

WENONAH: 35 

RED BANK : 60 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, Alabama, Mississippi. 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 18769; Ripley County, Miss. 

(eotypes) AA'SP. 

Aenona eufaulensis (Conrad) 1860 


Tellina eufaulensG Conrad, 1860, Jour. Aead. Nat. Sei. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 277, pl. 46, fig. 15. 



Acnona eufazdensis, ~hltfield, 1886, p. 168, pl. 23, figs. 2-3. 

Aenona eufaz~lensis, Weller, 1907, p. 623, pl. 70, figs. 24-25. 

Aenona eufaz~lensis, Crardner, 1916, p. 697, pl 42, figs. 34. 

Aenona ez~faz~lensis Wade, 1926, p. 92, p1. 30, figs. 4-5. 

Description.-"Shell small, triangularly ovate in outline, threefourths 

as high as long, with the small beaks situated a little more than 

one-third of the length from the anterior end. Cardinal margins rapidly 

sloping from the beaks, the anterior most rapidly, and the anterior end 

sharply rounding just above the basal line ; posterior end more broadly 

rounded, hut still narrowed; basal line broadly curved. Surface of 

the valve smooth and semipolished, the disk rather highly convex for a 

Tellina-like shell, with very small pointed beaks, a slight angularity 

of the umhonal region just in front of it, and a very narrow hut distinctly 

circumscribed lunule. In the interior the hinge-plate is very 

narrow, with a single small cardinal tooth in the right valve and very 

small and narrow lateral teeth. Musculal. markings unknown." (Whitfield. 

Remarks.-This species is recognized in the Cretaceous faunas of 

New Jersey only from Haddonfield. 

Ran.ge in New Jersey- 

TVOODBURI': 24 

Range oz~tside New Jersey: Maryland, Georgia, Alabama. 


Aenona pclpyria Conrad 1870 


Aenona papyria, Conrad, 1870, Am. Jonr. Conch., vol. 6, pl. 74. 

Aenoaa panyria, Whitfield, 1886, p. 169, pl. 23, fig. 4. 

Ael~ona papyria, IVeller, 1907, p. 624, pl. 70, fig. 26. 

Description.-"Subelliptical, inequilateral, extremely thin in substance, 

convex, anterior side narrowed; posterior end obliquely truncated; 

ventral margin regularly curved; surface marked by microscopic 

concentric close lines. Length, S/8inch." (Conrad.) 

Restarks.-According to Weller, the type and only specimen was 

badly injured. The specimen is now completely destroyed and it is 

impossible to determine its relationship. Weller pointed out that A. 

papyria differed from A. eufaulensk in the absence of the polished surface 

of the shell, in the presence of the uneven, strong, concentric 

lines, in the flattening of the sheU at the anterior end, and in the shell 

substances being - much thinner. 


WOODBURY: 24 

Type.-Haddonfield, N. J. ANSP 18772 (missing). 



Solyma lineolatus Conrad 1870 


Solgma lineolatus Conrad, 1870, Am. Jour. Conch., vol. 6, p. 75, fig. 9. 

Solynur lineolata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 182, pl. 25, figs. 11-13. 

Solyma lineolata, Weller, 1907, p. 629, pl. 71, figs. 3-6. 

Solyma lineolata, Gardner, 1916, p. 701, pl. 36, figs. 20-21. 

Solyma lineolati~s, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 26 

m.; height, 15.5 mm. Shell subquadrangular in outline, a little 

broader behind than in front; beaks broad, rather strongly elevated 

above the hinge-line, nearly central in position and directed anteriorly. 

Hinge-line nearly straight, the anterior and posterior portions sloping 

very gently on each side of the beak; antero-cardinal margin concave ; 

anterior margin rounding from the cardinal into the basal margin; 

basal margin nearly straight or slightly convex in the middle, curving 

upward a little more abruptly in front than behind; postero-basal ex- 

tremity rounded; posterior margin nearly vertically truncate; post-car- 

dinal extremity obtusely subangular; post-cardinal margin straight. 

Valves moderately convex, with an obscure, rounded, umbonal ridge 

along both the anterior and posterior umbonal slopes; the cardinal 

margins idected both in front and behind the beaks. Surface of both 

valves in the casts marked by rather fine, more or less irregular, con- 

centric lines of growth. 

Remarks.-This shell, in its general outline, somewhat resembles 

Periplomya elliptica, but with the extremities of the shell reversed, 

the anterior extremity of that species being the broader and the beak 

being directed backward. In Solyma lineolata, however, the posterior 

margin is truncate while the anterior margin of P. elliptica is rounded, 

and the anterior extremity is much broader than the posterior extrem- 

ity of that shell. The two more or less obscure umbonal ridges are also 

a distinguishing mark of this species, but these ridges have been made 

too conspicuous in Whitfield's illustration of the species. Upon one 

of the internal casts of this species which has came under observation, 

there seems to be an impression of a very deep pallial sinus extending 

forward to the center of the shell. (Weller) 


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MERCHANTVILLE : 8,10, 

WOODBTJRY: 22,24 

I: 34,35 

EL-NAVESTNK 


Type.-Haddonfield, N. J.; ANSP 16327. 



Solyma elliplica (Gabb) 1861 


ilnatina elliptica Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 324. 

Periplomya elliptica, Whitfield, 1886, p. 177, pl. 23, figs. 14-15. 

Periplomya tr?i.scafa, Whitfield, 18S6, p. 220, pl. 28, figs. 20-21. 

I'eleda nasuta, Whitfield, 1886, p. 217, pl. 28, fig. 23. 

Periplomya elliptic@, Weller, 1907, p. 522, pl. 42, figs. 5-11. 

Periplm,ya elliptica, Gardner, 1916, p. 633. 

Periplomya elliptica, Wade, 1926, p. 74, pl. 24, fig. 2. 

Description.-"Shell small, inequivalve, and very inequilateral, 

subovate in outline, largest across the anterior side of the beaks, and 

strongly constricted just behind them, the posterior end being nar- 

rowed on the hinge-line and excavated at this point. Valves somewhat 

ventricose, the right olie less convex than the left, and very decidedly 

depressed in the central region and toward the basal line, showing a 

decided twist or arcuation of the valves as seen in a basal view. Anterior 

end broadly rounded, and the posterior pointedly rounded. Beaks, 

small, appressed, incurved, and apparently directed backward, as is 

usual in this group of shells, from the expansion or inflation of the 

anterior side of the hinge line. Cardinal margin, as seen on the east, 

inflected both in front and behind the beaks, forming an apparent 

lunule and escutcheon on the cast, probably produced mainly from a 

thickening of the hinge-plate within. 3fuscular imprints and pallial 

line and hinge not observed." (Whitfield.) 

The dimensions of the specimen illustrated by Whitfield are: length, 

31 mm.; height, 27.5 mm.; thickness, 10 mm. 

Remarks.-The species was referred to the Manasquan formation 

(Eocene) by JVeller. However, the type in the Academy of Natural 

Sciences is from Mullica Hill and is probably from the Navesink for- 

mation. 

Only the type specimen is known from New Jersey. A single im- 

perfect specimen is known from the Monmouth formation (Upper 

Cretaceous of Maryland; this shows the compressed valves, the 

acute umbones and the constriction behind the umbones. It is also 

known from the Dave Weeks place near Coon Creek, Tennessee, which 

is also of Cretacous age. Stephenson (1941, p. 225) places this species 

in the genus Solyma. 


NAVESINK : 53 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland, Tennessee. 

Type.-bfullica Hill, N. J. Ah'SP 18767. 


PELECYPODA 

Family Solenidae 

Leptosolen biplicata (Conrad) 1858 


Siliqnaria biplicata Conrad, 1858, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil,, 2nd ser., 

vol. 3, p. 324, pl. 34, fig. 17. 

Leptosolen biplicata, Whitfield, 1886, p. 183, pl. 25, figs. 1-2. 

Leptosolen biplicata, Weller, 1907, p. 624, p1. 70, figs. 30-31. 

Leptosolen biplicata, Gardner, 1916, p. 703, pl. 42, figs. 7-8. 

Leptosolen biplicata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 332, pl. 85, figs. 10-13. 

Leptosolon biplicata, Wade, 1926, p. 94, pl. 31, figs. 4, 7. 

Leptosolen biplicata, Stephenson, 1941, p. 226, pl. 43, figs. 4-5. 


35 mm.; height, 11 mm.; convcxity, 3 mm. The largest examplc 

observed is nearly GO mm. in length. Shcll elongate, with straight, sub- 

parallel dorsal and ventral margins, the anterior and posterior mar- 

gins rounded, thc anterior usually a little more sharply rounded than 

the posterior, the greatest anterior extension at or above the mid-height 

of the shell. Gaping at both ends, more widely so posteriorly. Beaks 

small, scarcely elevated above the hinge-line, situated a little more than 

one-fourth the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Valves 

nearly regularly convex from the dorsal to the ventral margin, the slope 

to the cardinal margin usually a little more abrupt; the anterior ex- 

tremity of the shell compressed, with two obscure, sometimes obsolete 

plications estcnding obliquely forward and downward from the beak. 

In the casts a strong furrow passes from the beak downward towards 

the ventral margin, with a slight posterior obliquity, growing shallower 

below and becoming obsolete at a point about three-fourths the height 

of the shell from the dorsal margin. Surface of the casts marked by 

more or less inconspicuous concentric lines of growth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This is a strongly marked species which cannot he mis- 

taken for any other in the Nclv Jersey Cretaceous faunas. The strong 

furrow estending domnlvard from the beak in the casts represents a 

thickened rib upon the inner surface of the valve and would not be 

recognized upon the external surface of the shells. The species has a 

wide geologic and geographic range. 


IiIAGOTHY : 6 


IVOODBURY : 24 


MT. LAUREL-NAVESINIC : 37, 47, 49 

RED BANK : 60 

Type.-Owl Creek, Miss. ANSP 16326. 



Lepfosolen ? terminalis Weller 1907 


Leptosolen ? tenninalis Weller, 1907, p. 626, pl. 70, fig. 29. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen are: length, 

19.5 mm. ; height, 10 mm. ; convexity, 4 mm. Shell subquadrangular in 

outline, broadest a little back of the middle ; beaks low and small, ter- 

minal. Hinge-line straight, about one-half the length of the shell; 

anterior margin gently convex, nearly vertically subtruncate; basal 

margin nearly straight, curving a little upward in front; posterior mar- 

gin broadly rounded below, its greatest extension above the mid-height, 

above it curves far forward to the posterior extremity of the hinge- 

line. Valves rather strongly convex, divided nearly in half by a suh- 

angular umbonal ridge extending from the beak diagonally across the 

shell to the postero-basal angle; both the dorsal and ventral slopes 

gently convex. In the internal cast a strong and deep, sharply defined 

furrow passes almost directly downward from the beak towards the 

ventral margin of the shell, becoming shallower below and bending 

ahrnptly backward for a short distance just before reaching the margin ; 

another similar, but narrower, furrow originates beneath the beak with 

the first one, and extends backward, just below the hinge-line, to a 

point somewhat back of the middle of the hinge-line; just within the 

posterior margin of the shell and parallel with it, a very narrow im- 

pressed line seems to have been formed by a fold of the shell from 

its inner surface. Surface of the cast marked by more or less irregular, 


Remarks.-This species is established upon an internal cast which 

resembles the casts of Leptosolen biplkutu in the presetice of the strong 

furrow extending towards the ventral margin from beneath the beak, 

bnt it differs in several fundamental respects from that species, and the 

two can hardly be cogencric. In L. biplicata the shell is gaping at both 

ends, while in this one it is apparently closed ; the beak in this shell is 

situated at the anterior extremity of the hinge-line, the furrow is very 

near the anterior margin of the shell instead of about one-fourth of the 

length back, and it has a distinct backward turn near the margin. The 

shape of the two shells is also different, the dorsal and ventral margins 

of L. ? terminalis diverging posteriorly. 

There seems to be no genus in which this shell can be properly placed, 

and eventually it will probably be necessary to construct a new one for 

its reception. (Weller) It is related to Leptosolen f laevis Stephenson 

(1941, p. 229.) 


JlERCHANTVILLE: 10 

Type.-Jameshurg, N. J. NJSM 7756. 


PELECYPODA 

Leptosolen ? elongata Weller 1907 


Leptosolen P elongata Weller, 1907, p. 627, pl. 70, figs. 27-28. 

Leptosolen ? elongata, Richards, 1943, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

vol. 95, p. 24, pl. 4, fig. 7. 

Description.-The dimensions of the type specimen, a cast of a left 

valve, are: length, 24 mm.; height, 8 mm.; convexity, 2.5 mm. Shell 

elongate, dorsal and ventral margins subparallel; anterior margin 

rounded, its greatest extension above the mid-height ; posterior margin 

probably rounded or truncate, not completely preserved. Beaks small, 

terminal, but little elevated above the hinge-line. Valves closed in 

front, apparently gaping behind; the surface regularly convex from the 

dorsal to the ventral margin, curving a little more abruptly above and 

inflected to the hinge-line in the anterior half of the shell; curving 

abruptly to the anterior margin in front. In the cast a strong, deep, 

sharply defined furrow extends downward from the beak towards the 

ventral margin,and a little obliquely backward, curving a little pos- 

teriorly near its lower extremity; another much less conspicuous 

furrow originates beneath the beak with the first one, and extends back- 

ward, parallel with the hinge-line, becoming obsolete near the center 

of the shell. Surface of the cast apparently smooth. 

Remarks.-This shell is not a true Leptosolen, but seems to be 

cogeneric with the shell which has been described as Leptosolen f tertnd 

nalis. It differs from that species in the nearly or quite parallel dorsal 

and ventral margins, in its greater proportional length, and in the 

absence of the diagonal umhoual ridge. (Weller) 

Type.-Near Middletown, N. J. NJSM 10220 (holotype) ; 

Red Bank, N. J. ; NJSM 7518 (paratype) 

Siliquo crelaceu (Gabb) 1860 


Cultellus cretacea Gabb, 1860, Jour. Acad. Net. Sei. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 303, pl. 48, figs.'% a-b. 

Sdiqua cretacea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 186, pl. 25, figs. 9-10. 

Siliqua cretacea, Weller, 1907, p. 628, pl. 71, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-"Shell of moderate size, the internal cast, and the 

only one known, being nearly one and three-fourth inches long, and for 

the genus very convex, rather strongly curved, and widely gaping at 

each extremity, the valves only coming in contact in the middle of the 



I~asal margin; posterior end most widely gaping. Beaks distinct, but 

not elevated, situated a little within the anterior third of the shell's 

length. On the cast they slightly project above tlie general line of the 

hinge. Hinge slightly concave posterior to the beaks, and the margin 

considerably thickened, as indicated by the form of the cast. Anterior 

to the beaks the cardinal line decliries at a low angle from the direction 

of tbe posterior side. Basal line very strongly curved; extremities 

rounded, the anterior the most sharply so. Anterior muscular scar 

moderately large, triangularly o~ste, bordered by a rounded furrow 

on the posterior side, indicating a slightly thickened rib on the interior 

of the shell. Posterior scar larger, triangular, and faintly marked. 

l'allial sinus deep and extending to near the middle of the shell's length. 

Ilinge features unknown. Indications exist 011 the cast of a divided 

tooth-like projection on the left valve, with a socket-like plate on the 

right." (Whitfield). 

Remarks.-This species has not been met with in the recent col- 

leetions of the Survey, and the type specimen described by Gabb seems 

to be the only example which has ever been reeognized. In Whit- 

field's illustration of this type specimen, the furrow behind the an- 

terior muscular sear is represented somewhat deeper than it actually is 

upon the specimen. (Weller) 

Range in New Jersey -P 

Type.-Burlington County, N. J.; ANSP 16325. 

Siliqua ? ventricosa Richards new species 


Osprwsolen ventricosa Conrad MS. 

Descri,vtion.-Shell of moderate size and known only from a single 

internal (last. Hinge not visible, but about two-thirds toward the 

I 

anterior extremity of the shell. Anterior end somenhat gaping. Faint 

traces of iihs and even fainter traces of h e radial lines. Dimensions: 

32 mm. by 16.5 mm. 

Differs from S. cretacea Gabb by being much shorter and by the 

presence of the ribs. 

Remarks.-One specimen is in the collections of the Academy of 

Natural Sciences labelled Ospriosolcn ventricosa Conrad, but this is 

apparently a manuscript name. Its assignment to the genus Siliqna 

is open to question. It resembles a Solyma but its beak is more off- 

center. 

Range in New Jersey- P 

T,ype.-New, Jersey; ANSP 1'71'79. 


PELECYPODA 

Family Mactridae 

Mactre pentangularis Weller 1907 


Mactra pentangularis Weller, 1907, p. 631, pl. 71, figs. 7-8. 

Description.-Shell subpentagonal in outline, the dimensions of 

the best type specimen being: height, 17 mm.; length, 18 mm.; eonvexity, 

5 mm.; another somelvhat distorted example is proportionally 

longer. Beaks subcentral, the cardinal margins sloping away on either 

. side at an angle of al~ont 122" ; anterior and posterior margins both 

nearly vertically suhtruneate, the anterior margin being slightly more 

convex, and both rounding below into the gently convex basal margin; 

greatest convexity of the valves on the median line above the middle, 

the snrface sloping almost equally to the anterior and posterior margins, 

with a very slight posterior nmbonal ridge. Surface marked only 

by fine, concentric lines of gromtli which become somewhat stronger 

and more eroxvdcd towards the margin. 

Remarks.-The hinge characters of this species are not clearly 

shown in the casts from which it has been described, but there is an 

elongate lateral tooth in front of the beaks certainly, and apparently 

also behind; the characters beneath thr beak have not been seen at all. 

The species differs from other illaetridae in the New Jersey faunas in 

the proportionally greater height of the shell and its more nearly equal 

height and length. (Weller) 

Rangc in New Jersey- 

WOODBURY: 18 

Type.-Lorillard ; NJSM 7731. 

Cymbophora trigonalis Stephenson 1923 


Veleda lintea Conrad, 1875, Kerr's Geol. N. Car., App., p. 9, pl. 1, 

fig. 26. 

1 Cymbophora lintea, JVeller, 1907, p. 632 (part) pl. 171, figs. 9-11 

(Not figs. 12-13=C. lintea Conrad). 

Cymbophora trigonalis Stephenson, 1923, p. 336, pl. 85, figs. 1-6. 

Description.-"Shell subtrigonal in outline, thin, equivalve, mod- 

erately convex. Beaks small, moderately prominent, slightly separated, 

prosogyrate, situated slightly in advance of the midlength. Umhonal 

ridge not sharply defined, but represented by a slight inflation; dorsal 

slopes steep, tbe anterior one the steeper and slightly concave toward 

the beak, and the posterior one rounding to the margin. Dimensions 

of the type: Length 23 mm., height 17 mm., convexity 5.5 mm. 

Hinge relatively wide below 'the beak. On the right valve the ehond- 



rophore is rather deeply sunken in the hinge plate, concave outward, 

oblique toward the rear, bordered behind by an upturned oblique, 

carina-like callosity which is separated from the ventral margin above 

by a deep slit, and in front by a similar callosity which is partly 

fused with the cardinal tooth in front of it. Cardinal teeth two, pro- 

minent, fused above, diverging widely, the posterior one slightly oh- 

lique backward, the anterior one strongly oblique forward and partly 

fused with the carina-like margin above. Posterior claspers rather 

distant, long narrow, the upper one fused against the margin of the 

shell, separated by a narrow socket with corrugated sides; anterior 

claspers approximate to the cardinal teeth, short, the upper one fused . 

against the margin, the separating socket deep and corrugated on the 

sides. Left valve with chondrophore similar to that of right valve 

with upturned edges prominent; in front of the chondrophore is a 

deltoid or bifid cardinal tooth which is received between the two 

cardinal teeth of the right valve. 

Lateral teeth narrow, prominent, corrugated on the sides. Inner 

margin of shell smooth. Adductor scars subequal, small, peripheral. 

Pallial sinus not uncovered, bnt in nearly related species from Mis- 

sissippi and Texas is distinctly developed and of moderate size. 

Postero-dorsal margin slightly humped above the claspers, behind 

which it is nearly straight and descending; posterior margin sharply 

rounded, becoming subtruncated in adult specimens; ventral margin 

broadly and evenly rounded; anterior margin rather sharply and 

evenly rounded; antero-dorsal margin slightly arched and shorter 

than the postero-dorsal margin. 

Surface nearly smooth on the beak with only fine incremental 

lines, becoming marked toward the outer margin with numerous 

distinct, regular, concentric ridges, wider than the interspaces." 

(Stephenson) 

Remarks.-Three of the specimens referred to C. lintea Conrad by 

Weller may be this species according to Stephenson. 


MAGOTHT: 5,6 

MERCHANTVILLE : ? 8,10 

Range ontside New Jersey: North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. USNM 31952. 

Cymbophom lintea (Conrad) 1860 


Cardium (Protocardium) linteum Conrad, 1860, Jour. Acad. Nat. Sei. 

Phil., 2nd ser., vol. 4, p. 278, pl. 46, fig. 17. 

Veleda lintea, Whitfield, 1886, p. 172, pl. 23, figs. 18-21. 

Cymbophora lintea, Weller, 1907, p. 632, (part) pl. 71, figs. 12-13. 


Description.-The dimensions of two separate valves of this species, 

the larger specimen a right and the smaller a left valve, are: length, 

18.5 mm. and 16 mm. ; height, 15 mm. and 13 mm. ; convexity, 5 mm. 

and 3.5 mm. Shell ovate-subtriangular in odtline. The anterior and 

posterior cardinal margins meeting at the beak in an angle of about 

110°, curving regularly into the anterior and posterior margins below; 

anterior margin rather sharply rounded, its greatest extent below the 

mid-height of the shell; ventral margin broadly convex; posterior 

margin more or less sharply rounded or somewhat pointed below, 

oblique above, subtruncate or gently convex. Beaks a little in front 

of the middle of the shell or sometimes nearly central in position, 

slightly incurved, pointing forward, elevated a little above the hingeline. 

Valves moderately convex, with a more or less obscure umbonal 

ridge extending obliquely from the be* ,to the postero-basal extremity; 

post-umbonal slope rather abrupt, central portion of the 

valve gently convex, the anterior and posterior cardinal slopes about 

equally abrupt. In the casts the umbonal ridge is usually rounded, 

while in the shell itself it is often slightly angular. Surface of the 

shell marked with regular concentric lines, which are very fine in the 

young shells, becoming much stronger with the increased size of the 

shell. In the larger shells the surface markings seem sometimes to have 

been nearly or quite eroded, leaving the shell nearly smooth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-This is a common species in certain localities in New 

Jersey, especially in the Cliiwood clay and the Wenonah sand. Specimens 

from different localities exhibit considerable variation, especially 

in the distinctness of the concentric surface markings. The smaller 

and younger individuals possess these markings most clearly, but in 

the larger examples they seem usually to have been more or less eroded. 

Figures 9-11 which Weller called C. lintea may represent C. trigonalis 

Stephenson, but it is impossible to be sure because the New Jersey 

specimens are merely casts. 


MAGOTHY: 5.6 

~ 

MERCHANT~ILLE : 8,10 




RED BANK: 59, 60 

TINTON: 62 

Range atside New Jersey: Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. 


Cymbophora tellinoides (Whitfield) 1886 


Veledo tellinoides Whitfield, 1886, p. 173, pl. 23, fig. 23. 



Cymbophora tellinoides, Weller, 1907, p. 633, pl. 71, fig. 22. 

Description.+'Shell large for the genus, the cast, the only form 

under which it is known, being fully one and a quarter inches in 

length; form transversely orate, largest at the anterior end, and two- 

thirds as high as long. Valves depressed convex with small appressed 

beaks and a slight angulation passing from the beak to the posterior 

extremity, forming a narrow posterior cardinal slope. Surface, as 

sholvn on the cast, marked by fine concentric lines of growth. Nus- 

cular scars proportionally large and moderately distinct, and an in- 

dication of a rather deep sinus in the pallial lin~:." (Whitfield). 

Ren~arks.-"This species differs from C. lintea in the more trans- 

verse form, less angular umbonal ridge, which is also situated nearer 

to the cardinal border; in the less elevated form and more arcuate 

basal margin, and also conspicuously in want of the coarse, regular, 

concentric markings of the surface seen on that one. In regard to 

its generic affinities there may be a little doubt, as the hinge has been 

much less thickened and consequent.ly the impressions of the teeth are 

less conspicuous and consequently less certain." (Whitfield). 

Range in New Jerscy- 

WENONAH: 35 

Type.-Marlboro, N. J. NJSM 9768. 

Schizodesma appressa Gabb 1876 

Plate 37, Figurc 8 

Scl~izodesma ? appressa Gabb, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 

vol. 28, p. 306. 

Veleda transversa Whitfield, 1886, p. 174, pl. 23, fig. 22. 

Schizodesma appressa, Weller, 1907, p. 634, pl. 71, figs. 14, 15, 16, 20 

(Not fig. 19 = Cymbopkora scabellun~ Stephenson; not figs. 17, 18 

=C. szrbtilis Stephenson). 

Description.-The dimensions of an average right valve are: 

length, 23 mm.; height, 15.5 mm., convexity, 4 mm. Shell inequi- 

lateral, subovate or ovate-subcuneate in outline. Anterior and pos- 

terior cardinal margins meeting at thc beak at an angle of about 125' ; 

anterior margin regularly rounding from the antero-cardinal margin 

above into the basal margin below; basal margin gently convex 

throughout, becoming a little straighter posteriorly; postero-basal 

extremity wbangular; posterior margin shorter than the anterior, 

obliquely truncate; posterior cardinal extremity obtusely subangular. 

Beaks prominent, nearly erect, slightly incurved, situated a little in 

front of the middle of the shell. Valves most prominent on the umbo, 

sloping rather abruptly to the cardinal margins, the most: gentle slope 

being to the postero-basal extremity; a more or less obscure rounded or 

subangular umbonal ridge passes from the beak obliquely backward to 


PELECWODA 247 

the postero-basal extremity. Surface of the shell marked by regular, 

fine concentric lines, which become regularly stronger in passing from 

the beak to the shell margin, and becoming nearly obsolete upon the 

post-umbonal slope. 

Remarks.-Gabb's type of this species has never been illustrated, 

but the New Jcrsey examples have hcen compared mith the original 

specimen and their specific identity can be safely assumed. Veleda 

transversa was described by \Vhitfield from "dark micaceous clays 

below the Lower &farls at Jlarlborough," and the horizon indicated 

can be no other than the summit of the Wenonah sand as seen near 

Marlboro. Whitficld's type specimen has been compared mith various 

specimens in the recent collections of the Survey, from the same 

horizon at a neighboring locality. These show the characters of his 

species and demonstrate its specific identity with Gabb's species from 

Georgia. The specimens from the Cliffmood clay which have been 

referred to the spccies, usually differ from the Wenonah sand example,! 

in their somewhat higher and more vertically truncated posterior 

margin, these specimens also seem usually to have suffered a greater 

degree of erosion of tlle shell, which has more or less destroyed their 

surface markings. (Weller) 

Stephenson (1941 p. 230) discusses this species and its allied forms 

in Texas. 


MAGOTHY: 5, 6 


Type.-Pataula Creek, Georgia. 

Family Corbulidae 

Corbula manleyi Weller 1907 


Corbz~la ntanleui Weller, 1907, p. 636, pl. 72, figs. 1-8. 

Corbzcla manlcyi, Richards, 1943, Proc. Acad. Nat. Soe. Phil., vol. 95, 

p. 21, p1, 5, figs. 6-9. 

Description.-The dimensions of a perfect specimen are: length, 

15 mm.; height, 10.3 mm.; thickness, 7.8 mm. Shell inequivalvate, 

subcuneate, subtrigonal in outline; bcaks prominent, inc~lrved, nearly 

in contact, situated at or a little in front of the anterior third of the 

shell. Antmior and posterior cardinal margins meeting at the beak 

in an angle of about 100°, anterior slope much shorter than the posterior; 

anterior margin rounding regularly.from the cardinal into 

the basal margin; basal margin slightly convex in front, becoming 

straight behind; postero-basal extremity angular; posterior margin 

very short, curving almost immediately into the post-cardinal margin 



above; post-cardinal margin long, nearly straight: Valves ventricose 

in the umhonal region, the surface curving abruptly and inflected to 

the antero-cardinal margin; sloping rather steeply with a slightly 

convex curve to the anterior and ventral margins, and more gently to 

the postero-basal extremity; each valve with an angular umhonal 

ridge, that of the left valve much the more conspicuous; post-umhonal 

slope of the right valve narrow, slightly concave, inflected to the hiuge- 

line towards the beak; that of the left valve much broader, concave, 

sloping much more abruptly, not inflected. Surface of the right valve 

marked by rather regular, moderately fine, rounded, concentric costre, 

which seem to terminate at the umhonal ridge; the left valve marked 

by more or less irregular concentric lines of growth which are not 

raised into distinct, rounded ribs, and on the anterior portion of the 

valve by a few indistinct radiating costse. 

On the internal casts the surface is smooth, the muscular impres- 

sions are indistinct, and the beaks are widely separated and erect. 

The general form and contour of the valves is the same. 

Rentarks.-The specimens which have been used in the description 

of this species were collected by Mr. John M. Manley, of New Bruns- 

wick, at Furman's clay pits, Sayreville, New Jersey. They are of 

special interest because they were collected from near the base of the 

Raritan formation, at a horizon which has rarely yielded invertebrate 

fossils. The species is a very peculiar and distinct one, and is quite 

different from any other Corbula in the faunas of the New Jersey 

Cretaceous beds. (Weller) 

Stephenson (1948, p. 143) questionably refers some specimens 

from the Raritan section of the Bethards well near Berlin, Maryland, 

to this species. 


RARITAN: lc 

Range outside New Jersey: Maryland ? 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. ; Chicago 10833. 

Corbula manleyi duplex Richards 1943 


Corbula mnleyi duplex Richards, 1943, p. 21, pl. 6, fig. 6. 

Description.-Similar in size and shape to C. mnleyi Weller, but 

characterized by its more irregular striations, many of which appear 

to consist of double bands separated by an interspatial groove. Length 

10 mm; width 15 mm. (Richards) 


RARITAN: la 




Corbula bisz~leata, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48, pl. 5, 

fig. 10. 

Description.-The dimensions of a partially restored specimen, 

a plaster east taken from a natural mould, are: length, 13.5 mm.; 

height, 8 mm.; thickness, 6.5 mm. Shell subcuneate behind, full and 

rounded in front. Bcaks small, ineurved, situated back of the midclle. 

pointing posteriorly. Antero-cardinal margin long, straight near thc 

beaks and curving gently downward in front, subparallel with thc 

basal margin ; anterior margin regularly rounded; basal margin nearly 

straight, curving npw;~rtl in front; postero-basal extremity angular; 

post-cardinal margln concave. Valves strongly ventrieose in front, 

compressed behind, the ventral margin of the right valve overlapping 

that of the left and its posterior extremity more produced, bcaks of the 

two valves subequal; an angular umbonal ridge is present on the 

right valve, with a narrow slightly concave post-umbonal slope; on 

the left valve the umbonal ridge is obsolete. Surfaee of the valves 

marked by rather fine, concentric lines of growth. 

Perfect internal casts are suhcuneate, but not so greatly produced 

posteriorly as the shells, the muscular impressions are eonspicuous 

the vhole area of the casts between the muscular impressions 

and the pallial line hcing strongly inflated. ('\\'eller) 

Remarks.-Various casts have been referred to this species by 

Weller; however, Stephenson questions their identification. 

Range in New Jersey- - 

MAGOTHY: 5, 6 

BIERCHANTVILLE : 8, 10, 15 

WOODBURY: 24 

Range ontside New Jersey: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina. 

Type.-Snow Hill, N. C. probably lost. 

Corbula foulkei Lea 1861 

Plate 38, Figures 1,5,14 

Corbula foulkei Lea, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. Phil., p. 149. 

Corbula szibcompressa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 180, pl. 23, fig. 26. 

(not of Gabb.) 

1907, p. 640, pl. 72, figs. 23-26. 


of a nearly complete individual, a 

mould, are: length, 12.5 mm.; 

dimerrsions of the perfect internal 

cardinal margins sloping

PELECYPODA 

Corbula lorillardensis Weller 1907 


Corbula lorillardensis Weller, 1907, p. 637, pl. 72, figs. 9-14. 

Description.-The dimensions of an internal cast are: length, 10.5 

mm.; height, 5.5 mm.; thickness, 4 mm. Shell elongate subovate in 

outline, broader in front than behind; the beaks central or a little 

in front of the center, broadly obtuse, a little incurved; right valve 

overlapping the left along the ventral margin. Anterior and pos- 

terior cardinal margins sloping downward in front and behind the 

beak, meeting at an angle of about 142'; anterior margin regularly 

rounding from the cardinal into the basal margin; basal margin long, 

gently convex; postero-basal extremity angular; posterior margin 

nearly vertically truncate, sometimes slightly oblique; the post-cardi- , 

nal extremity angular or subangular. Surface of the valves strongly 

convex from the dorsal to the ventral margins, slightly convex longi- 

tudinally across the greater portion of the central part of the shell, and 

curving rather abruptly to the anterior margin; an angular umbonal 

ridge passes from the beak to the postero-basal extremity; the post- 

umbonal slope abrupt, usually a little concave; the posterior ex- 

tremity of the right valve compressed and a little produced. Surface 

of the shell, as seen in i~npressious of the exterior, marked by rather 

fine, more or less irregular, concentric lines of growth, which become 

more conspicuous near the ventral margin and upon the post-umbonal 

slope. In the casts the surface is smoother, the umbonal ridge is less 

angular and the muscular impressions are inconspicuous. 

Remarks.-This is the commonest member of the genus in the 

nodules at Lorillard, and can be recognized from all other species in New 

Jersey, by its elongate form, with the dorsal and ventral margins 

more or less subparallel. (Weller) 



Type.- ? 

Corbula bisulcata Conrad 1875 


Corbula bisulcata Conrad, 1875, Kerr's Geol. N. Car., App., 

pl. 2, figs. 13-14. 

Corbula foulkei, Whitfield, 1886, p. 180, pl. 23, figs. 27-29. 

(not C. foulkei Lea. 

. 

Corbula bisulcata, Weller, 1907, p. 638, pl. 72, figs. 15-22. . ~ 

Corbula bisulcata, Gardner, 1916, p. 711. 

Corbula bisulcata, Stephenson, 1923, p. 343, pl. 86, figs. 6-12. 



symmetrically on either side of the bcak, and meeting at an angle 

of about 122O; anterior margin rouncling from the cardinal into the 

basal margin ; basal margin moderately convex, curving upward more 

abruptly in front than behind; postero-basal extremity angnlar; pos- 

terior margin obliquely truncate, mezting the post-cardinal margin 

in a broadly obtuse anglc. Valves modcrately and subcqually convex. 

with an angular nmhonal ridge; middle portion of the valve gently 

convex, the surface curving somewhat abruptly to the antero-cardinal 

margin; post-nmbonal slope narrow, concave rather abrupt. Surface of 

shell marked by inconspicuous lines of growth. In the internal east the 

beaks are broader and blunter, and the left valve seems to he slightly 

more convex than the right; the muscular impressions are strongly 

impressed, indicating a thickening of the shell at.these points, and 

giving to the area between them and the pallial line a somewhat in- 

flated appearance. 

Ren~arks.-The specimen which has been used as the basis for the 

preceding description is a very perfect internal east with the aecom- 

panying natural mould of the exterior from which a east has been 

taken to show the external featnres of the shell. This east has thc 

right valve complete except for a slight restoration along the ventral 

margin, the left ~Talve being less complete. This specimen has been 

compared with the type of the species, which has never been illnstrat- 

ed, and the agreement is close except that the specimen here illustrat- 

ed is larger. The casts of this species somewhat resemble those of 

C. bisalcafa, but the central portion of that species is much more in- 

flated, mith more deeply impressed muscular impressions. Whitfield's 

illustration of C. subcompresaa, on comparison mith the type of that 

species, proves to be entirely different, and the specimen from which 

it mas drawn is believed to be an example of C. fozillcei. (Weller) 


JIERCHANTVILLE : 16 

WOODBURY: 19, 22, 24 

T,ype.-Raddonfield, N. J.; ANSP 18766. 

Corbula crassiplica Gabb 1860 


Corbula crassiplica Oabb, 1860, Jour. Aead. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 394, pl. 68, fig. 25. 

Cmbula crassiplica, Whitfield, 1886, p. 178, p1. 23, fig. 30. 

Corbula crassiplica, llTeller. 1907, p. 641, pl. 72, figs. 27-28. 

Corbz~la crassiplica, Gardner, 1916, p. 713, pl. 43, figs. 6-7. 

Corbula crassiplica, Stephenson, 1941, p. 234, pl. 44, figs. 16-11. 

Corbula crassiplica, Wade, 1926, p. 96, pl. 31, figs. 9, 13. 

Corbula wassipliea. Groat, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48. 



Desc,iptioit.-The dimensions of a right valve are: length, 6 mm. ; 

height, 5 mm. Shell subtriangular in form. Beaks large, inflater1 and 

e~lrolled, situated a little in front of the middle of the shell. Hingeline 

areuate; antero-cardinal margin sloping rather abruptly forward 

to the anterior extremity of the shell below the midille; basal 

margin convex anteriorly through the greater portion of its length: 

becoming concave hehind ; postern-hasal extremity angular ; posterior 

margin short, vertically truncate. curving rather abrnptly al~ove into 

the lonx sloping postero-carilinal margin. Right valve strongly 

ventricose. 1vit11 an angnlar umbonal ridge which is faint or obsolete 

towards the heak, 1)ecoming conspicuous as it approaches the posterobasal 

angle of t,he shell ; in front of the nmhonal ridge in the lomcr 

half of the shell is a rat,her narrow hut distinct sinus which forn~s 

t,he posterior sinuosity in the basal margin; the post-umbonal slope 

concave. Snrface of thc valve marked with nine or ten strong: roundetl, 

elevated. concentric costae, which continue from the anterior 

margin of t,he shell to the sinus in front of the umhonal ridse: the 

interspaces abont equaling the ribs in width. On the umbo the eoncentric 

marlrings are reduced rather ahruptly from the strong costae 

to fine cor~centric lines; passing over the nmbonal ridge and clown the 

posterior slopc, are rather fine, sublamellose, concentric lines of 

growth. Left valve much less ventricose t,han the right and the hcali 

mnch less produced, the surface marlred only with more or less irregular 

concentric lines without the strong costae. 

Remnrks.-This species has a long range in the Cretaceous hcds 

of New Jersey, and can always be easily recognized by the peculiar 

markings of the right valve which can frequently bc seen as impressions 

in the matrix. The species is quite characteristic of the Woodhury 

clay. in ~vl~ich formation it somef.imes occurs in great numbers. 

In most of the other formations, however, it is comparatively rarc. 

The only other New Jersey species with which it is in danger of being 

confused is C. cliffiuoodensis which is mneh larger and laclrs the sinus in 

front of the umbonal ridge. (ll'eller) 

Ranqe in Neiu Jersey- 

IllERCRANTVILLE: 8, 10, 14; If,, 16 

WOODBURY: 18, 22, 24 ! 

WENOXAH : 34,35 

MT. LAUREL-NAVESINIC : 46: 54 

RED BANIC: 59, 60 

Itaptge outside A'ezu Jersey: Delami~re, Maryl;in,l, Georgia, 

i\l;~bama, Xississippi, Arkansas, Texas. 

T,ype.-"from a cut in the Memphis and Charleston Railroad 

\\,here it crosses the Tennessee and Mississippi state line." 


I 

I

Corbula cliffwoodensis Weller 1907 


Corbnln cliffzuoodeasis nTeller, 1907, p. 643, pl. 72, figs. 29-30. 

Description.-The dimensions of an internal cast of a right valve 

are: length, 9.5 mni.; height. 6 mm.; convexity, 3.5 mm. Shell snbtriangular 

in outline ; thc beak large and broad, ineurved. Hinge-linc 

areuate ; antero-cardinal margin sloping abruptly downward to below 

the middle of the valve; anterior margin rounding from the anterior 

extremity of the hinge-line into thc basal margin; basal mar,' -in eo~ivex; 

postero-basal extremity sharply rounded; post-cardinal margin 

concave. Right valve strongly ventricose in the middle, rounding 

abrnptly to the anterior and antero-cardinal margin, with an angnlar 

un~bonal ridge extending obliqnely backward from behind the beak 

in a concavely cnrved line to the postero-basal extremity; post-umbonal 

slope abrupt, concare; the valve compressed towards the posterior 

extremity. Surface of the right valve marked by strong, rounded, eoncentric 

ribs, which originate at the antero-cardinal margin, grov 

stronger in the middle of the shell and become obsolete just before 

reaching the umbonal ridge; about 26 of these ribs are recognizable 

on a shell S mm. in height, mhieh regularly increase in strength from 

the umho to the ventral margin; post-nmbonal slope marked only by 

concentric lines of growth. (Weller) 

Remarks.-Only the right valve of this species has been observed. 

It is a close ally of G. crass-iplica, but grows much larger, with comparatively 

finer concentric ribs, and it lacks the distinct sulens in 

front of the umbonal ridge. The specimens are all internal casts and 

impressions of the exterior. 

Range in NOW Jersey- 

AUOOTHY: 5 

Type.-Cliffmood Point, N. J. NJSM 9579. 

Corbula jerseyensis Weller 1907 


Corbula jerseyensis Weller, 1907, p. 644, pl. 72, figs. 37-38. 

Description.-The dimensions of a perfect internal east are: length. 

6 mm. ; height, 4 mm.; thickness, 3 mm. The dimensions of a larger 

8 left valve are: Icngth, 9 mm. ; height, 6 mm. Shell ovate-subcuneate 

in outline, the ventral margin of the right valve overlapping the left; 

beaks subcentral, pointing slightly forward, that of the right valve a 

little more elevated and sharper in the east than that of the left. 

Hinge-linc arenate;'anterior and posterior cardinal margins sloping 

symmetrically from the beak, where they meet in an angle of about 

120'; anterior margin regularly rounded; ventral margin gently 



convex ; postero-hasill extremity angular ; posterior margin truncate 

below, subangular above or curving icto the postero-cardinal margin. 

Valves gently convex in their central portion, the surface curving 

abruptly to the antero-cardinal border; posteriorly an angular urnbonal 

ridge separates the body of the shell from the post-nmbonal 

slope; post-nmbonal slope short, abrupt, concave. Surface of the 

shell nearly smoot.h, marlred only by fine, inconspicuous lines of growth 

~vhich become a little more prominent on the post-umbonal slope. In 

the east the angular umbonal ridge of the exterior of the shell is 

nearly or quite obsolete, and the muscular impressions are inconspicuous. 

(Wcller) 

Range in A'e~u Jersey- 

MAGOTHY: 5 

T?/pe.-Cliffn,ood Point, K. J. XJSN 957s. 

Corbula swedesboroensis Weller 1907 


CorbziIa szuedosboroensis Weller, 1907, p. 644, pl. 72, figs. 33-36. 

Description.-The dimensions of a nearly perfBct right valve are: 

length, 12.5 mm.; height, 9 mm.; convexity, 3.5 mm.; a larger im- 

perfect valve is 15 mm. in length. Shell subovate in outline; the beak 

in front of the middle, rather small, a little incurved, pointing for- 

ward. Anterior and posterior cardinal margins meeting at the beak 

is an angle of about 13x0 ; anterior margin regularly rounded from the 

cardinal to the basal margin; ventral margin gently convex, with a 

slight sinuosity just in front of the posterior extremity; postero-basal 

extremity angular; posterior margin short, truncate, slightly oblique; 

postero-cardinal extremity obtusely angular; postero-cardinal mar- 

gin nearly straight. Right valve with a low, angular, slightly sigmoidal 

umhonal ridge; the most prominent portion of the valve below thc 

bed

PELECYPODA 

A single internal cast of Corbtila from the Cliffmood clay haa 

been referred to this species; the beak is somewhat more obtuse, thc 

umbonal ridge less angular, and the posterior margin somewhat nar- 

rower than in the specimen preserving the shell, but these are all 

differences which might be expected in a cast of the interior of thc 

shell. Another somewhat distorted internal cast from the Woodbury 

clay near Haddonfield, is also placed in this same species. Both of 

these internal casts retain traces of the concentric surface markings, 

\vhich agree closely with those of the shell itself. (JVeller) 

Rnnge in New Jersey- 

hCAGOTHY: 5, 6 


JVOODBTJRY : 24 


Type.-Near Swedcsboro, N. J. ; NJSN 96%. 

Corbula greywaczi Richards 1943 


Corblilagreywaczi, Richards, 1943, p. 22, pl. 4, fig. 10. 

Description.-Shell small, trigonal in outline, moderately inflated. 

h narrow, sharply defined carina-ridge extends from the beak to the 

posterior extremity; beak prominent, incurved, about 2/5 the length 

of the shell from the anterior extremity; posterior part of the shell 

more pointed than the anterior. Shell surface covered with even con- 

centric ridges. Length 5.0 mm. ; width 7.5 mm. (Richards) 

IZetirarks.-The shell is smaller than C. rnanleyi Weller, less elon- 

gate with a less prominent ridge and with more even concentric ridges. 

It is closer to C. latona Stephenson from Banquereau, Nova Scotia, 

but has coarser ridges and n slightly more prominent carina-ridge. 

Named in honor of Mrs. Kathryn B. Greymacz, Curator of thc 

New Jersey State Museum. 


RARITAN: la 

Type.-Sayreville, N. J. NJSM 10543 (squeeze of type ANSP 

15662). 

Caryocorbula ? ovisana Stephenson 1953 


Caryocorb?~la ovisa?~a Stephenson, 1953, U. S. Geol. Surv. Prof. Paper 

242, p. 129, pl. 32, figs. 9-15,1952 = 1953. 

Caryocorbz~la ? ouisana Stephenson, 1954, p. 34, pl. 7, fig. 26. 

Descriptios.-"This species is represented by one incomplete ex- 



ternal mold of a right valve from the southern pit of the New Jersey 

Clay Products Co. (USGS 19014). The following description is based 

on this specimen. Shell small, subtrigonal in outline, strongly in- 

flated. Beak not preserved but obviously iucunred and situated well 

forward of the midlength. Umbonal ridge curved, obtusely subangular 

in cross section. Posterodorsal slope steep, sinuous, divided centrally 

by a low radial ridge; the surface between this ridge and the umbonal 

ridge is broadly concave. Anterior margin sharply rounded; ventral 

margin broadly rounded; posterior margin subangular below at end 

of umhonal ridge, followed above by a short truncation inclined 

forward. Surface regularly ornamented with pronounced concentric 

ridges which toward the margin number 8 or 9 in a radial distance 

of 5 rmu. The ribs end abruptly rearward near the umbonal ridgc. 

beyond which, on the posterodorsal slope, only growth lines are prc- 

sent. 

Dimensions of the esternal mold which lacks a little of including 

the full length: Lengtli 11+ mm, height from 7 mm, convcsity about 

3 mm." (Stephenson) 


RARITAN : lb 

Itange ozctside New Jerse!/: 'l'csas (\Voodbinc formation). 

Tgpe.4.2 miles nortlicast of Saxroy, Fannin County, Texas 

(on Sheep Creek) ; IiSXRI 105535. 

Family Saxicavidae 

Panopea decisa Conrad 1853 


Panopaea decisa Conrad, 1853, Jour. Scad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd scr., 

vol. 2, p. 275, pl. 24, fig. 19. 

Panopea decisa, Whitfield, 1886, p. 181, pl. 24, figs. 5-8. 

Panopea decisa, Weller, 1907, p. 646, pl. 73, figs. 3-5. 

Pallopea decisa, Gardner, 1916, p. 721. 

Panopoa decisa, Wade, 1926, p. 98, pl. 32, figs. 8-9. 

Panopea decisa, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48, 111. 5, fig. 11 

Description.-The dimemions of a large specimen are: length, 

about 80 mm. ; height, 51 mm. ; thickness, 35 mm. Shell more or less 

subelliptical in outline, widely gaping behind and closed in front,. 

Reaks central or a little in front of the center of the shell, moderately 

large anrl incnrrerl. IIinge-line nearly straight; n o r margin 

rounded, its greatcst extension below the miclclle; basal nlargin ncarly 

straight or gently conves ; usually snbpar;~llel with the hinge-line ; pos- 

terior margin curving more or less abruptly upward and backward from 



the basal margin, obliquely truncntc below, rounding into the cardinal 

margin above. Valves rather ventricose, with a rounded, oblique, an- 

terior, umbonal ridge becoming broader and more or less obsolete 

below; from the umbo the surface slopes rather abruptly in front and 

gently behind; from the posterior side of the beak a rather broad, 

shallow, indefinite sinus extends obliquely backwards towards the pos- 

terobasal angle, usually becoming obsolete in the outer portion of large 

individuals. Surface of the shell marked by strong, more or less 

irregular, concentric undulations. 

Ren1arks.-This species has a rather long range irl the New Jersey 

Cretaceous beds, but it is most characteristically a member of the 

Merchantville fauna. It reaches its largest size at this horizon, those of 

the higher formations rarely exceeding 50 mm. in lcngtll, and usually 

hcing even smaller than this. (Weller) 

The most closely related species are probably P. clliptica Whit- 

field from the Manasquan formation (Eocene) of New Jersey and 

P. monnlouthensis from the hlonmouth formation of Maryland. 


MAGOTHY: 5 

MERCHANTVILLE : 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17 


WENONAH : 35 

RZT. LAUREL-NAVESINR: 37, 40, 47 

RED BANE: 59 

Range outside New Jersey: Delaware, North Carolina, South 

Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi. 

Type.-Burlington County, X. J., AXSP 16380. 

Family Gastrochenidae 

Gartrochaena whiffieldi Weller 1907 


Gaslrocliaena wkitfieldi Weller, 1907, p. 648, pl. 73, figs. 10-12. 

Descriptio?z.-Diameter of the tube 14.5 mm. at its larger, closed 

extremity, decreasing to 11 mm. in a distance of 22 mm. Shell 

broadly gaping ventrally and posteriorly, the beaks anterior; the di- 

mensions of the type specimen are: length, 16 mm.; height, 8.5 mm. 

Valves somewhat twisted, subtriangular in outline, truncated behind 

and pointed in front, but with tllc anterior pointed extremity inflecterl 

almost at a right angle so that in lateral view the valves appear to br: 

quadrangular, the dorsal margin gently convex posteriorly. A low, 

obtusely angular, very oblique umhonal ridge extends from the beak 

to the postero-basal angle, below this ridge the surface is slightly 

concave to the ventral margin, above it is convex nearly to the dorsal 



margin where it becomes a little concave. Surface of the shell marked 

by fine, concentric lines of growth which bend upward abruptly at the 

oblique umbonal ridge; upon the ventral region and especially upon 

the idected anterior extremities of the valves, the markings become 

somewhat sublamellose. 

Remarks.-This species is based upon a single very perfect cast 

of a complete shell, with a partial impression of the external surface 

shoving the surface markings. A east of the inner portion of the 

tube was also originally preserved, but this has been partially [le- 

stroyed in removing the shell. The tube differs from those in the 

Vincentovvn limesand which have been described as G. americam, 

and of which the shell has never been observcd, in its less slender form 

and in the absence of the conspicuous, irregular annulations. (\\Teller) 

Range in flew Jersey- 

NAVESINK: 46 

Typo.-Walnford, N. J., NJSJZ i560. 

Gastrochaena linguiformis Weller 1907 

Plate 36, . Figure - 11 

Gaslrochac~~u / ~ ? I ~ I ~ ~ ~ O \VclL.r, ~ I I I I S IYU;, p. 649, pl. 73, fig. !I. 

Carfrochuenn 11ar~srformi.i. (:root, Organist and Iticliclrds, 1954, p. 46. 

Description-Tubc of the type specimen with a iliameter of 

11 mm. Dimensions of the right valve: height, 7.3 mm. ; length, about 

19 mm. Valves of the shell linguiform, the dorsal and ventral margins 

nearly straight and subparallel, the posterior margin regularly 

rounded, thc anterior margin not preserved in the type. ]tight valve 

gently convex throughout, the left valve a little more convex and 

somewhat twisted. Valves marked by concentric lines of growth. 

(Weller) 

Remarks.-This species may be easily distinguished from G. whitfieldi 

by its more elongate and linguiform valves and the rounded 

posterior margin. It is too poorly preserved for comparison with 

other species. - 

Range in New Jersey- .< - 


Range outside h'ew Jersey: Delaware. 

Type.-? 

Kummelia americana (Gabh) 1860 

Gastrochaena americana Gabb, 1860, Jour. Aead. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd 

ser., vol. 4, p. 393, pl. 68, fig. 20. 

Gastrocl~aena americana, Whitfield, 1886, p. 203, pl. 26, figs. 17-16. 

'% & ? 

Gastrocl~aena amcricana, Weller, 1907, p. 649, pl. 73, fig. 13. 

: 

Gastroehaena an~ericana, Wade, 1926, p. 99, pl. 32, figs. 5-7. ! 

-' 

Kummelia americana, Stephenson, 1937, Jour. Wah. Aead. Sci., ~ ol. 

27, pp. 58-64, figs. 1-8. 


PELECYPOUA 

Description.-Tubes solitary, elongate-conical, the larger extremity 

rounded; attaining a length in the largest examples of 75 mm., and 

a maximum diameter of about 12 mm. ; the minor diameter is usually 

about 5 or 6 mm.; dianletcr increasing gradually and more or less 

irregularly, usually being 1 mm. in a length of from 6 mm. to 16 mm. 

Surface irregularly marked by annular wrinkles and coustrictior~s 

arising from what have been the rounded extremity of the tube at 

different stages of its growth. Some specimens have almost the appearance 

of vorn specimens of Orthocoras, but with the septa convex 

towards the larger instead of the sn~aller extremity. No remains of 

i~ bivalve shell have ever been observed. (Wcller) 

Eow~arks.-This species, although reported only from the Vinccntown 

formation of Kew Jersey, is known from the Cretaceous of Delaware 

( ?), Mississippi and Tennessee. 

1'ypo.-Timber Creek, N. J., ANSP 13403. 

Pholar cithara Morton 1834 


Pholas cithara Morton, 1834, Synop. Org. Rem. Cret. Gr. US., p. 68, 

pl. 9, fig. 10. 

Pliolas citlrara Whitficld, 1886, p. 187 (part). Not pl. 25, fig. 16. 

Pltolas citliora\iTeller? 19Oi: p. lic51. (part). Not pl. 74, fig. 7. 

Pkoladidea ? cithara Stephenson, 1923, p. 350, pl. 87, figs. 14-15, 

Pliolas cithara, Groot, Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 48. 

Descriptio?~.-"Shell subovate-elongate in outline, narrowest pos- 

I teriorly, inequilatcral, cquivalve, moderately convex, fullest anteriorly, 

becoming rather strongly compressed posteriorly. Beaks broad, 

not strongly prominent, iucurved, prosogyrate, situated about onefourth 

the length of the shell from the anterior extremity. Dimensions: 

Length about 20 mm.; height about 10 mm.; convexity, 5 mm. 

Hinge line straight. Antero-dorsal margin apparently convex; anterior 

margin rather sharply rounded; ventral margin slightly convex, 

subparallel to the hinge line; posterior margin slightly rounded. 

A sharply impressed line extends from the beak obliquely downward 

and bacltward to the midd!e of the ventral margin, dividing the 

surface into two areas; the forward area is marked by about 20 

rather fine, acute growth ridges; the posterior area immediately back 

of the impressed line is marked by an equal number of similar 

growth ridges which join the impressed line at a broad obtuse angle 

to the growth ridges in front of it, and which become obscure on the 

postero-dorsal slopcs; just back of the impressed line the surface is 

cancellated by about six radiating lines which become obscure posteriorly; 

these radiating lines arc a little weaker than the growth 

ridges." (Stephenson.) 

I Ren1arks.-According t.o Stephenson, the specimen figured by 



XThitfield as Pholas cithara is not similar to Alorton's type and should 

properly be referred to Pholas (9) pectcrosa Conrad. The specimen 

figured by Weller (Plate 47, figure 7) as P. cithara from the Wood- 

bury clay at Lorillard is also not that species and is described in this 

report as P. lorillardensis. 

Range in New Jersey-? 

Range outside ATew Jerse,y: Delaware 9, Xorth Carolina. 

Type.-"Blue Alarl of Afonmouth County." 

Pholas pectrosa Conrad 1852 


Pholas peclrosa Conrad, 1852, Proc. Aeacl. Wat. Sci. Phila., p. 200. 

Pholas citliara, \Vhitfielcl 1886, p. 187, pl. 25, figs. 14-16 (part) 

Pholas cithara, Weller, 1907, p. 651, pl. 74, fig. 7 (part) 

Pholas pectrosa, Gardner, 1916, p. 724, pl. 44; fig. 1. 

Pliolm pectrosa, Stephenson, 1941, p. 251, pl. 45, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-"Ovate cuneate; anteriorly inflated, contracted in 

the middle; posterior side cuneiform; disk with radiating ribs, larg- 

est anteriorly, and interrupted by concentric furrows; anterior side 

very short, margin obtusely rounded or snbtruncated; basal margin 

rounded ;~ntediorly, eontraeted medially, straight posteriorly." 

(Conrad) 

Remar1cs.-Confuse with P. cithara and P. lorillarde?isis. For 

further discussion see under those species. In view of the confusion 

in this genus, it is clifficnlt to determine the range of the various 

species. 


MERCHANTVILLE ? : S 

WOODBURy ? : 18,20 

WE;\'ONAH ? : 34,35 

TINTON :6'3 

Range ostsicle New Jorseg: Afaryland, >Iississipl)i, Texas. 

Tgpe.-'rinton Falls, N. J.; ANSI' 16272. 

Pholas lorillardensis R,icbards new species 


Pliolns cithorn Morton, Weller, 1907, p. 651 (part), 111. 74: lig. 7. 

(Not P. cithara Morton, 1834). 

Description.-Shell ovate in outline as in illustration. Gro~vtl~ 

lines fine near beak, becoming eoitrser toward the margin of t,llr: shall. 

Closely resembles I'holas citlinra Alorton with which it has been con- 

fused, but differs by being more truncate and by its coarser scnlp- 

ture. Dimensions: 31 mm. by 16.5 mm. 

Ren1arks.-The type is represented by a cast and mold. It was re- 


ferred to Pholas citharu llorton 11y Weller (1907). Eowever, Stephen- 

son (1929, p. 351) questions its identity vith that species. Therefore 

the new name is proposed. 

Range in hTew Jersey- 

IVOODBlJRY: 18 

Type-Lorillard, N. J. ; NJSM 959i. 

Family Pholadidae 

Xylophagella irregularis (Gabb) 1860 

Plate 39, Figures 1'7-19 

Teredo libidis Morton, 1834, Synop. Org, Rem. Cret. Gr. U.S., 1). 66 

(in part). 

l'eredo irregzilaris, Gabb, 1860, Jour. ilcad. Nat. Sci. Phil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 393, pl. 68, fig. 19. 

Tcredo contorta, Gabb, 1861, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 323. 

Teredo irregularis, IVhitfield, 1886, p. 191, pl. 25, figs. 18-19. 

Teredo irregzrlaris, \Veller, 190i, p. 656, pl. 74, figs. 1-3. 

Teredo irregzrlan's, Gardner, 1916, p. 729. 

Xylophagella irregzrlaris, Stephenson, 1941, p. 247. 

Descriptio?i.-Tubes as shown by their casts gregarious, exceedingly 

tortuous and contorted, sometin~es annulated, increasing gradually 

in size froin their point.of origin, the larger ones reaching a 

diameter of 10 inm. or more. Shell subglobular, cordate in outline 

from in front, the beaks a little in front of the middle of the hingeline, 

widely gaping behind and open in front; the postern-cardinal 

extremity somewhat produced in a rounded lobe. Anterior margin 

rounding from the hinge-line above into the upper margin of the 

large, deep, subrectangular, antero-basal hiatus which reaches above 

the mid-height of the shell; basal margin short; posterior margin 

obliquely subtruneate belolr,, bent abruptly backward near the hingeline, 

and continuing around the postern-cardinal lobe of the shell. 

Valves ventricose, the beaks prominent, much elevated above the hingeline 

and strongly incurved or enrolled; the surface curving steeply 

towards the antero-cardinal extremity and then deflected shortly 

before reaching the margin, curving less abruptly to the postern-cardinal 

extremity. In the casts a very deep and prominent furrow 

passes from the hinge-line just back of the beaks to the posterior 

margin just below the post-cardinal lobe of the shell; anot,her faint 

groove which is less eonspicuons upon thc larger individuals, crosses 

t,he post-umbont~l slope in a nearly vertical direction from the lower 

margin of the deep groove alrcady (Iescribed behind the betlks to the 

posterior extremity of the basal margin; surface of the anterior half 

of the shell, as s11olr.n in impressions of the exterior, marked by exceedingly 

fine, regular, concentric stri~, parallel with the shell margin, 

20 or more of which occupy the space of 1 millimeter. These 



stria: towards the antero-cardinal extremity, are crossed by finer 

radiating striie, which produce an exceedingly fine reticulate pattern 

upon the shell surface. &farkings of the posterior half of the shell 

unknown. (TVeller) 

Bemarks.-Casts of the irregular burrows of this spec' arcs arc sometimes 

of common occurcncc in the &Icrchantvill~: clay, penetrating 

masses of fossil ~,ood, and on tracing these burrolvs to their termination, 

casts of the shell can usually be found, sometimes in excellent 

condition. Some masses of the tubes are all much s~naller than 

tllose in other mrisses, but all thc tubes in one group are ~lsually of 

tipproximately the same dimensions. It was at first thought possible 

that the different sized tubes indicated different spocies, but tlic shells 

are all essentially the same, whether from large or small tubes, in all 

masses. observed in tlic &Ierchantville clay-marl. A mass of essentially 

identical tubes has been found in the Marshalltown elay-marl, 

however, associated with many individuals of Jlnrtesia bkz~lcata, 

which have a very different shell, described in this report as Tz~rnus 

kiimnreli. Other similar tubes occur sometimes in the Navesiuk marl, 

but the accompanying shells have not been obser\.cd; these tubes: 

however, seem to be straighter, and they probably belong to another 

species. 

The type specimen of 2'. irreyula~is is without data as to locality 

or horizon, am1 the description of tBo shell itself is too nlcagre to he 

of any use in identification. Inasmuch, however, as the 3ferchanvillc 

clay-marl is the horizon where burrows of this sort most frequcntl? 

occur,


Type.-(X. irregqrlaris) New Jersey -ANSP 15900. 

(T. contorta) Burlington County, N. J.; ANSI' 15908. 

Xylophagello kummeli (TVcller) 1907 


7'~rnzi.s lin~rurieli Tl'ellc~., 1907, p. 652, p1. 74, figs. 4-6. 

Sylophagclln ktmln~eli, Stephenson, 1941, p. 249. 

Deso.ipiio?~.-l'nbes penetrating masses of rood, exceedingly tortuous 

and contorted, gradually increasing in size from their point of 

origin and so far as observed, reaching a maximum diameter of 9 mm. 

The dimensions of a large shell are: length, 10 mm.; height, 9 mm.; 

depth of one valre, 5.5 mm. The hinge-line is about .7 of the total length 

of the shell. In antcrior view the shell is cordate in outline, each valve 

being irregularly suborate in lateral ~rien,. Beaks in front of the middle 

of the shell, pointed and strongly incurved, umbones very prominent, 

the mlves compressed posteriorly and not gaping. The antero-basal 

hiatus rectangular, large and deep, occupying nearly the entire anterior 

side of the shell, its upper margin two-thirds the total height of the shell 

from the ventral margin. Ventral and posterior margins rounded. 

[Jmbonal sulcus deep and narrow and slightly oblique, on each side 

the surface of the valre is raised in a slight rib which becomes stronger, 

especially the postcrior one, tonxrds the ventral margin of thc 

valve. In the internal cast a shallow ill-defined furrow originntt:~ 

on the posterior side of the beak and extends obliquely backward to- 

~rards the postero- ventral margin, becoming almost obsolete as it ap- 

proaches the margin. On the anterior side of the beak a narrower and 

shallo'ver, but more sharply defined furrow originates and continues to 

the inner nnglc of the anterior hiatus of the valve. The finer surface 

markings arc not well shown upon the internal cast, hut they nppnr- 

ently consist of fine and inconspicuons lines of growth. 

Remarks.-A single examplc of the species has been observed from 

the Merchantville formation at Lenola. This specimen is a smaller one: 

only G.5 mm. in length, and is a rcry imperfect internal cast. So far as 

can l)c determined it has cssent,ially thc same form and proportions as 

the type, hut the tvo fnrrows originating upon the anterior and pos- 

terior sides of thc beali can not be detected, and seem to have been 

absent. This may bc due to the smaller and possibly younger shell. 

(Weller) 

According to Stephenson, this should be referred to the genus 

X!~lophagella but the specimen does not retain the surface character- 

istics necessary for a critical comparison with other species of that 

Kenus. 



hL4RSEALLrl'OWN : 28 

1'upc.-Cotype-Chicago, 18548. 



Ma~esia cretacea (Gabb) 1860 

Plate 38, Figure 12; Plate 39; Figure 8 

Pholas cretaeea Gahb, ISGO, Jour. Acad. Xat. Sci. E'hil., 2nd ser., 

vol. 4, p. 393, p1. 68, fig. 18. 

11Iartesia cretacen, Qabh, 1876, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil., p. 304. 

Martesia cretacen, TVhitfield, 1866, p. 190, pl. 25, fig. 23. (Not figs. 20- 

22.) 

Martesia cretacen, TVellcr, 1907, p. 654, (Not figs. 8-11.) 

? illartesia cretaeea, Gardner, 1916, p. 727. 

Martesia cretncen, Stephenson, 1941, p. 250. 

Jlarfe~ia eretncea. Crroot: Organist and Richards, 1954, p. 49. 

Doscriptio?~.-Shell small; snbhemispherical in front, cuneate behind, 

the beaks strongly incnrved, nmhones prominent. The anterior 

nlargin ronnding regnlarly from the anterior extremitv of the hingeline 

into the straight basal margin, posterior margin subtruncate, postcardinal 

margin sloping haclrward from the posterior extremity of the 

hinge-line. Surface of each valve marked by a deep, narrow groove! 

estending from the heak obliquely backward to the ventral margin 

which it meets in front of the middle of the shell; in most individnals 

a second groove close to and parallel with the first, hut a little mido 

and shallover, is introduced a short distance below the beak and continues 

to the margin. The anterior region of the shell is marked hy 

fine cost= rvhieh bend shroptlp upward in front of tho oblique grooves, 

continuing to abovc the middlc of the shell, where they make a nearly 

rectangular turn and continue in a horizontal direction to the anterior 

margin, surrounding two sides of, and sharply differentiating, 

a smooth, triangular, slightly raised area in the antero-ventral region 

of each valve. The posterior rcgion of the shell is marked by broader, 

rounded cost=, parallel with the margin of the valves. 

The dimensions of a specimen of average size are: length, 7 mm. ; 

height, 4.5 mm. : greatest thickness, 4.8 mm. 

Remarks.-The name Pkolns cretacea was originally applied to a 

group of casts of the tuhcs of one of the Pholadidae, without any 

kno~vledge of the shell characters. At a later date the original author 

of the species rlescribed a singIe individual of a shell and referred it 

to the samc species as the previously described tubes "because it is 

of ahont the proper size to form such tubes." In themselves, the tubes 

of this group of pelecypods possess no characters which can be useil 

for specific determination, and consequently the species Pholas cretncca, 

afternarils referred to the genus Martesin, may be aonsidered as 

fonnrlerl npon the shell describeil by Gabh. Whitfield has illnstraterl 

Gabb's specimen anil redescribed it, hut he saw no additional specimens. 

In the recent colleetions of the Survcy 50 or more individuals 

of this spccies have been ohserved in a fragment of fossil mood from 

1 to 1% inches in cliamet,er and 8 inches long. The entire surface of 



this mood is filled with the burro~vs of this species, and in each burrow 

is a well preservccl shell or the internal cast of a shell. These specinlens 

show some variation in several characters, but a comparison with 

Gahb's typeof N. eretacca has shown them to be not essentially different 

from that species. Some of the examples are shorter than usual 

and consequently taper morc abruptly to the posterior extremity than 

t,he average form, hut the most important variation is the presence, or 

absence of the snpplementary ohliqne furrow in front of the primary 

one estending from the beak to the rentral margin. In the majority 

of indivi(1nals this fnrrom is present and its absence is more apt to be 

a feature of the smaller and presumably younger shells. In a few 

specimens of nearly masimnm size this furrow is nearly obsolete, 

hcing noticeable only near the ventral margin, and in one specimen 

it is absent from one valw alt,l~o~igh faintly indicated on t.he other. 

(J'vre1ler) 

Range in New JerseyilZERCHAXTVILLE 

: 15, 16 


Range o?ltside hTew Jersey: Delaware, Maryland ? 

Type.-Near IJnion! Raritan Rap; AXSP 159'75. 

Martesia cretacea magnatuba Richards 1943 


IIfnrtesh cvetacea n~ag?~ntuba R.ichards, 1943, p. 25, pl. 7, figs. 1-2. 

Description.-Similar in general nppearance to M. crctncoa (Gabb) 

hot considerably larger than any heretofore recorded specimen of 

t,hat species. (Richards) 

Rentnrks.-The type consists of a large piece of wood completely 

replaced hy Ii~nonite ~~ith nnmcro~is horings made by the clams. None 

of the original shells are preserved, and it is therefore impossible to 

give an adequate description. 

Ili. cretucen (Gabb) was originally described from a group of casts 

of t~ibes without knomledge of shell characters. The new rariety resembles 

the type of M. cretncoa in general appearance and preserriltion, 

hut differs from it in sizc. The type of If. cretnceu (ANSP 

15875) measures 2.6 mm. in length and 0.9 mm. in greatest diameter 

while the type and average specimen of variety magnatubn measures 

3.0 mm. in length and 1.4 mm. in greatest diameter. 

Gahh's locality for ]If. cretucea was merely given as "Raritan Bay, 

N. J."; however, the type at the Beodemy is labelled "near Union, 

Raritan Bay, N. .J." This is probably part of the Merchantville form;^. 

tion. 

Qahb subsequently describeil a single indiridnal of a shell (AXSI' 

2283) and referred it tn the same species; no loet~lity vns given other 

than "New Jersey." 



The New Jersey State Nuseum has spccimens.of P. cretacea fro111 

the 1\Iercliantrille formation (I~enola, N. J.) and the Marshalltown 

formation (Swedesboro, N. J.) identified by Weller, and the Academy 

has specimens from tlie Bterchantrille formation at Maple Shade, N. .T., 

and lferchantville, N. J. 

In viem of the close resemblance betwen the Raritan specimens 

and Gabb's original type and also in view of the probable long geolo- 

gical range of the species, it seems wisest merely to give a varietal 

name to the nev form r~hich belongs to a slightly older geological 

formation than the typical JI. cretacea. 

A relationship was also noted to 81. constricts (Phillips) from the 

Lover Cretaceous and basal Upper Cretaceous of England and with 

M. prisca (Sowerby) from the I~omer Cretaceoas of England. 

The large mass of tubes in the limonitized wood was collected by 

Meredith E. Johnson and is the property of thr New Jersey State 

Ifnsenm. A few individual tubes from the same mass are in the col- 

lections of the Acaclemy of Natural Sciences. 

Range in New Jersew- 

RARITAN : lb 

Type.-Sayreville, X. .T.; X.TSkI 10472. TARATYPE-AXSP 

15872. 

Goniochasma sp. 


Martesia cretacea Whitfield, 1886, p. 25 (part), pl. 25, figs. 20-22 

(not fig. 23). (Not 31. cretacea C:abb.) 

Martesia cretncea Weller, 7907, p. fi.54 (part), pl. 74, figs. 8-11 (?), 

not synonomy. (Not of Gabb.) 

Goniochasma sp. Stephenson, 1941, p. 250. 

Description.-"One internal mold, figured by Whitfield, probably 

incorrectly as JIartesia cretacea (Gabb), and two internal molds 

from the lfarshalltomn clay of iSew Jersey, fignred by Weller under 

the same name, also proliahly incorrectly, appear to helong in the subgenns 

Goniochosl~~n." (Stephenson, 1941, p. 250). 

Range in New Jerseu- 

DIARSHALIJTOWN: 28 

F

Plates 


PLATE 1 

Figure Page 

1. Cliona cretacica Fenton and Fenton, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 2234 x 1 ....................................................... 29 

2. C. cretacica Fenton and Fenton, Mullica Hill, N. J. 

ANSP 2234 x 1 ....................................................... 29 

3. C. cretacica Fenton and Fenton, New Egypt, N.J. 

NJSM 8185 x 4 ....................................................... 29 

4. C. cretacica Fenton and Fenton, New Egypt, N.J. 

NJSM 8185 x % ...................................................... 29 

5. C. cretacicn Fenton and Fenton, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal 

ANSP x 1 ........................................................... 29 


PLATE 1 


PLATE 2 

Figure Page 

1-3. Corynella jerseyensis Howell n. sp. (TYPE), New Jersey, 

PU 76407 x 1 ....................................................... 31 

4,5. Coeloptychium jerseyensis Shimer and Powers (TYPE) 

USNM 31176 x 1 ................................................... 30 

6. Cliona microtuberum Stephenson '/ North of New Egypt, N.J. 

NJSM 9848 x 1/2 ................................................... 29 


PLATE 2 


PLATE 3 

Figure rage 

1. Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson. Asbury Park, N. J. well 

at 628-629 feet. NJSM x 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 

2. M. cr;baria Stephenson, Lorillard, N.J. 

NJSM 7964 x 4 ..................................................... 33 

3. Astrangia cretacea (Bolsche), Milam County, Texas 

x I (after Wells) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 

4. Trochocyathus woolmani Vaughan (TYPE) Mount Laurel, N.J. 

well. ANSP 685 x 4 (corallum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

5. Same specimen as Figure 4 x 9 (calyx) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

6. Another specimen, "much enlarged" (costae) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 


PLATE 3 


PLATE 4 

Figure Page 

1. Serpula circularis Weller (TYPE) Swedesboro, N.J. 

NJSM 7712 x 3 ...................................................... 37 

2. Hamztlus wenonaharzus Howell (TYPE) Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 9683a x 2 ..................................................... 38 

3. Hamulus falcatus (Conrad), Mount Laurel, N.J. 

wellANSP683ax2 .................................................. 37 

4. H. falcatus (Conrad), Mount Laurel, N.J. 

wellNJSM683bx2 .................................................. 37 

5. Longitubus line~tus (Weller), Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 91 x 1 ........................................................ 40 

6. H. falcatzcs (Conrad), Mount Laurel, N.J. 

well ANSP 683 x 2 ................................................... 

7. H. falcatus (Conrad), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP15267 x 2 ..................................................... 37 

8. H. wenonahamcs Howell, Marlboro, NJ. 

NJSM 9680 x 1.5 .................................................... 38 

9. H. falcatus (Conrad) (COTYPE) Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 14891a x 2 .................................................... 37 

10. H. falcatus (Conrad), Maple Shade, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................. 37 

11. H. fa2cntus (Conrad) (COTYPE) Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 14891b x 2 .................................................... 37 


37


PLATE 5 

Figure Page 

1. Hamulus squamosus Gabb Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 17360 x 2 ..................................................... 39 

2. H. squamosus Gabb, Tippah County, Miss. 

ANSP 2268a x 2 ..................................................... 39 

3. H. major Gabb, Eufaula, Ala. 

ANSP 14831 x 1 ..................................................... 40 

4. Filogranula jerseyensis Howell n. sp., New Jersey 

PU 77354 x 5 ....................................................... 42 

5. Longitubus lineatus (WelIer), Maple Shade, N.J. 

x 1.8 ................................................................ 40 

6. Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson, Crosswicks, N. J. 

ANSP 15085 x 1 ..................................................... 39 

7. Diploconcha cretacea Conrad, Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 16619 x 1.2 .................................................. 41 

8. D. cretacea Conrad (operculum), Maple Shade, N.J. 

x about2 ............................................................ 41 

9. Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson, Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 15085 x 2 ..................................................... 39 

10. H. walkerensis praecursor Howell, Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 16618a x 2 ................................................... 40 

11. D. harbisonae Howell, Crawfords Corner, N. J. 


12. D. harbisonae Howell, Crosswicks, NJ. 

ANSP 15425 x 1 .................................................... 41 


PLATE 5 


PLATE 6 

Figure Page 

1-3. Faujasia geometrica (Morton), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

USNM 17753 (top, bottom and left side) x 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 

4-7. F. geometrica (Morton), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 1496 (top, bottom, left side and right side of TYPE) x 1 . . . . . . . . . . 45 


PLATE 6 


PLATE 7 

Figure Page 

1-3. Cardiaster maryland:'cus Clark, Brightseat, Prince Georges County, Md. 

(top, bottom and side of TOPOTYPE) x 1 (after Clark). ............ 51 

4,5. C. marylandicus Clark, Brightseat, Md. 

(top and bottom of another specimen, probably TYPE) x 1 

(after Clark) ..................................................... 51 

6-8. C. smocki Clark, 2.5 miles northwest, Matawan, N.J. 

NJSM, (left side, bottom and top of TYPE) x 1 (after Cooke, 1953) ... 50 

9-12. C. hilli Cooke n. sp., Anacacho limestone, Cline Mountain, Uvalde 

County, Texas 

USNM 108792 (posterior end, top, left side and bottom of TYPE) 

x 1 .............................................................. 50 

13,14. C. hiEli Cooke n. sp., Cline Mountain, Texas 

USNM 108792 (top and bottom of PARATYPE) x 2 .................. 50 

15-18. Hardouinia florealis (Morton), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 1495 x 1 (after Cooke, 1953) ................................. 48 


PLATE 7 


PLATE 8 

Figure Page 

1-4. Hemiaster delawarensis Clark, south side of Chesapeake and Delaware 

Canal, between Lorwood Grove and St. Georges, Del. 

(top, bottom, posterior end and right side) x 1 (after Clark, 1916) .... 53 

5-7. Hemiaster welleri Clark, (TYPE) 1 mile south lower Jamesburg, N.J. 

(Merchantville formation), NJSM (Left side, top and bottom of 

TYPE) x 1 (after Cooke, 1953) 53 

................................... 

8-12. Hemiaster ungula (Morton), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 1503 x 1 (left side, right side and bottom of TYPE) (after 

Cooke, 1953) ..................................................... 52 

13, 14. "Hemiaste?' kiimmeli Clark, LorilIard, N.J. 

NJSM x 1 (top and bottom of TYPE) ............................... 52 

15,16. Catopygus pusillus Clark, Wordills, Monmouth County, N. J. 

(Merchantville clay) USNM 2210 x 1.5 (top and posterior end of 

TYPE) (after Cooke, 1953) ....................................... 47 

17-20. Catopygus (OoZopygus) williamsi Clark, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 

(Navesink marl) USNM 103698 x 1 (top, posterior end, right side and 

bottom of TYPE) (after Cooke, 1953) .............................. 47 



PLATE 9 

Figure Page 

1,2. Cho~istoth~ris vanuxemi (Lyell and Forbes), Crosswieks, N. J. 

ANSP 19631 x 4 ................................................... 58 

3,4. Terebratulina atlantica (Morton), New Jersey, 

ANSP 19633 x 3 ................................................... 55 

5,6. Choristothyris plicata (Say), New Jersey 

ANSP 19630 x 3.5 ................................................ 56 

7,8. C. plicata (Say), Cream Ridge, N.J. 

ANSP x 2 ....................................................... 56 

9. Halyminites major Lesquereux, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

(Wenonah formation) x 1 ......................................... 42 

10. H. major Lesquereux, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

(Wenonah formation) ANSP x 1 ................................... 42 

11. Tube, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

x 1 .............................................................. 43 

12. Tube, Beers Hill, N.J. 

ANSP x 2 ........................................................ 43 

13. Choristothyris plicuta (Say) x 1 (after Whitfield) ................... 56 

14,15. Lingula subspatulata Hall and Meek, Lorillard, N.J. 

x 1 (after Weller) ................................................ 55 


PLATE 9 


PLATE 10 

Figure Page 

1. Nucula percrassa Conrad, New Jersey, 

ANSP 19570 x 1 ...................................................... 59 

2. N. percrassa Conrad, Haddontield, N.J. 

ANSP 19569 x 2.1 ................................................... 59 

3. N. slackiuna (Gabb) (TYPE), Crosswicks, N.J. 

x 1.8 ............................................................... 60 

4. Donax fordii Conrad (TYPE) = Nucula percrassa Conrad, Haddonfield 

N.J. 

ANSP 19700 x 1.8 59 

................................................... 

5. N. slackiana, (Gabb), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP18731 x 2.4 ................................................... 60 

6. N. slackim (Gabb) (TYPE), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18796 x 1.6 .................................................... 60 

7. Nuculana compressifrons Whitfield, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18730 x 6 ..................................................... 61 

8. N. pinnaformis (Gabb) (TYPE), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 19519 x 5.3 .................................................... 62 

9. N. mmlboroensis (Weller), near Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 9687 x 3.8 ..................................................... 62 

10. N. marlboroensis (Weller), Crawfords Corner, N.J. 


11. N. cliflwoodensis (Weller), (TYPE), Cliffwood Point, N.J. 


12. Yoldia gabbana (Whitfield), (TYPE), Freehold, N.J. (?) 

ANSP 18727 x 3.6 ................................................... 68 

13. Nuculana tintonensis (Weller), (TYPE), Beers Hill, N.J. 


14. N. longifrons (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18726 x 1.3 .................................................... 65 

15. N. protexta (Gabb), Navesink marl, N.J. 

(after Whitfield) x 1 ................................................. 64 


PLATE 10 


PLATE 1 1 

Figure Page 

1. Nuculana stephensoni Richards new name (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18728 x 1.7 ................................................ 66 

2. N. stephensoni Richards new name, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 19880 x 1.7 ................................................ 66 

3. N. longifrons (Conrad), Lorillard, N.J. 

NJSM 7757 x 0.9 .................................................. 65 

4. Yoldia papyria (Conrad), (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP18752x3.5 ................................................. 68 

5. Y. papyria (Conrad), Matawan, N.J. 

NJSM 7739 x 1.8 ................................................. 68 

6. Y. cliffwoodensis Weller (TYPE) near Matawan N.J. 

NJSM 8868 x 1.9 ................................................ 69 

7. Nuculana protexta (GaUb), Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 19571 x 1.3 ................................................ 64 

8. N. protexta (Gabb), Gloueester County, N.J. 

ANSP 18729 x 1.8 ................................................ 64 

9. Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb) , (TYPE), Eufaula, Ala. 

ANSP18799x1.6 ................................................. 70 

10. N. angulatz~m (Gabb) (TYPE), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18723 x 1.8 ................................................. 72 

11. N. brevifrons Conrad, (TYPE), Snow Hill, N.C. 

ANSP 2301 x 1 ................................................... 73 

12. N. brevifrons Conrad, Crawfords Corner, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 ................................................ 73 

13,14. Cucullaea antrosa Morton, (TYPE ?) , New Jersey 

ANSP2272 x 1 ................................................... 77 


PLATE 11 


PLATE 12 

Figure Page 

1. Cucullaea antrosa Morton, Navesink marl, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 ................................................. 77 

2. C. littlei (Gabb), Beers Hill, N. J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .................................................. 79 

3,4. C. cornpressirostra (Whitfield), Tinton Falls, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .................................................. 79 

5. Striarca congesta (Conrad), Lorillard, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .................................................. 89 

6,7. Cucullaea tippana Conrad, ( = C. vulgaris Morton), Swedesboro, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .................................................. 75 

8. C. woodburyensis WeIler, LorilIard, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .................................................. 78 


PLATE 12 


PLATE 13 

Figure Page 

1. Cucul2aea neglecta Gabb, (TYPE), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18765 x 1 .................................................. 78 

2. C. neglecta Gabb, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 22&0 x 1 ................................................... 78 

3. C. vulgaris Morton (TYPE ?), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 19568 x 1 .................................................. 75 

4. C. neglecta Gabb, (TYPE), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18765 x l .................................................. 78 

5. C. vulgaris Morton, Beers Hill, N.J. 

NJSM10222x0.8 ................................................. 75 

6. C. littlei (Gabb), Beers Hill, N.J. 


7. Trigonarca triquetra Conrad, Cliffwood, N.J. 

NJSMx 1 ........................................................ 81 

8. T. cuneiformis Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18718 x 7.. ............................................... 82 

9. Cucullaea littlei (Gabh), Beers Hill, N.J. 


10,ll. Breviarca haddonfieldensis Stephenson, (TYPE) 

ANSP 13141 x 1.8 ................................................ 82 

12,13. B. umbonata Conrad, Iladdonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 13313 x 2 .................................................. 83 

14,15. B. cuneata (Gabb), Mount Laurel, N.J. 

well ANSP 665 x 2 ................................................ 84 


PLATE 13 


PLATE 14 

Figure Page 

1. Arca uniopsis Conrad, (TYPE), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 16876 x 1 .................................................... 85 

2. A. obesa (Whitfield), (TYPE), Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSPl9516x1.6 ................................................... 87 

3. A. obesa (whitfield), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 19518 x 1.7 ................................................... 87 

4. Nemoarca cretacea Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18724 x 4.7 ................................................... 87 

5,6. Trigonurca triquetra Conrad, (PARATYPES), Snow Hill, N.C. 

ANSP 19572 x 1 .................................................... 81 

7,8. Glycymeris mortoni (Conrad), New Egypt, N.J. 

ANSP 16411 x 1 .................................................... 90 

9. G. mortoni (Conrad), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP x 0.6 ........................................................ 90 

10. G. microdentus (Weller), (TYPE), Crawfords Corner, N.J. 


11. G. compressa (Weller) , (TYPE), Middletown, N.J. 

NJSM 7510 x 2.3 ................................................... 92 


PLATE 14 


PLATE 15 

Figure Page 

1,2. Pinna laqz~enrn Conrad, Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP x 1 ......................................................... 93 

3. Inoceramus ? perovalis Conrad, (TYPE), Chesapeake and Delaware 

Canal, Del. 

ANSP 18803 x 1 .................................................... 99 

4. Gertrilli~~sis ensiformis Conrad, Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 19520 x 1.7 9.1 

................................................... 

5. Inoceranzzis quadrans Whitfield, (TYPE), near Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18710 x 0.5 ................................................. 96 

6. I. proximus Tuomey, Collingswood, N.J. 

ANSP 19325 x 0.9 ................................................... 95 

7. 1. proxinaus Tuomey, Lenola, N.J. 

ANSPf75x0.8 ..................................................... 95 

8. 1. confertim-annulatus Roemer, Summit Bridge, Del. 

ANSP19886x1.5 ................................................... 97 

9. I. pro-obliqua Whitfield, Holmdel, N.J. 



PLATE 15 


PLATE 16 

Figure Page 

1. Inoceramzis sp., Lenola, N.J. 

ANSP 5993 x 0.9 ................................................. 99 

2. Pteria petrosa (Conrad), Matawan, N.J. 


3. Pteria sp. Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 19353 x 1 ................................................. 102 

4. P. naviczcla Whitfield, (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18753 x 2 ................................................. 101 

5,6. Ostrea panda Morton, New Jersey 

ANSP 19352 x 1 ................................................. 105 

7. 0. cretacea Morton, Cliffwood, N.J. 

NJSM 7782 x 1 ................................................. 104 

8. 0. congesta Conrad, Cliffwood, N.J. 

NJSM 8854 x 1 .................................................. 105 

9. 0. congesta Conrad, Cliffwood, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 ............................................... 105 

10. 0. subspntzilata Forbes, Crawfords Corner, N.J. 


11. 0. monmouthensis Weller, Crawfords Corner, N.J. 

NJSM 7619~1.3 ................................................. 107 

12. 0. monmouthensis Weller, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 30487x 2 ................................................. 107 

13,14. 0. tecticosta Gabb, (TYPE), New Jersey 

ANSP 18761 x 1 ................................................. 107 

15. 0. nasuta Morton, New Egypt, N.J. 

ANSP 19350 x 1.2 ................................................ 110 

16. 0. mesenterica Morton, New Egypt, N.J. 

ANSP 19354 x 1.2 ................................................ 109 

17. 0. mesenterica Morton, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

Johns Hopkins Univ. x 1.5 ....................................... 109 


PLATE 16 


PLATE 17 

Figure Page 

1. Nucula whitfieldi Weller, (COTYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 

NJSM 7732 x 1.5 .................................................. 61 

2. N. whitfieldi Weller, (COTYPE), Crawfords Corner, N.J. 

NJSM 7685~2.2 .................................................. 61 

3. Nemodon conradi Johnson, (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18798 x 1.8 ................................................ 72 

4. Trigonarca cliffwoodensis Weller, (TYPE), Cliffwood, N.J. 


5. Arca rostellata Morton, Holmdel, N.J. 


6,7. Meleagrinella abrupta (Conrad), near Holmdel, N.J. 

ANSP 19670 x 2.4 ................................................ 103 

8. Gervilliopsis ensiformis (Conrad), Woodbury, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 .............................................. 94 

9,lO. Ostrea plumosa Morton, Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 7617 x 0.9 ................................................. 111 

11. Gervilliopsis minima Whitfield, (TYPE), Freehold, N.J. 

(after Whitfield) "enlarged" ...................................... 95 


PLATE 17 


PLATE 1 8 

Figure Page 

1. Pteria laripes (Morton) (after Whitfield) 

x 1 .............................................................. 101 

2. P. navicula Whitfield, Haddonfield, N.J. (after Whitfield) 

x 1 ................................................................ 101 

3. Ostrea denticulifera Conrad. (TYPE) = 0. plumosa Morton, Haddon- 

field, N.J. 

ANSP 18760 x 1 .................................................. 111 

4. Paranomia scabra (Morton), Upper Freehold, N.J. (after Weller) 

x 1 ............................................................... 149 

5,6. Plicatula mullicaensis Weller, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

(after Weller) x 1 ................................................ 137 

7,8. Nuculana whitfieldi Gardner, Friendly, Md. (after Gardner) 

x 4 ............................................................... 66 

9. N. whitfieldi Gardner, Brightseat, Md. (after Gardner) 

x 5 .............................................................. 66 

10. Inoceramus confertim-annulatus Roemer (after Whitfield) 

x 1 ............................................................... 97 

11. Pulvinites argenteus Conrad, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

(after Groot, Organist and Richards) x 1 ............................ 104 


PLATE 18 


PLATE 19 

Figure Page 

1. Ostrea monmoz~thensis Weller, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

USGS x 1 ........................................................ 107 

2. 0. falcata Morton, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del., 

Del. Geol. Surv. x 1 ............................................... 108 

3. 0. falcata Morton, New Jersey 

ANSP 19351 x 1 .................................................. 108 

4. 0. plumosa Morton, Arneytown, N.J. 

ANSP18807 x 1 ................................................... 111 

5,6. 0. plumosa Morton, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18760 x 1 .................................................. 111 

7. Gryphaea convexa (Say), Centerville, Md. 

................................................. 

(well) ANSP x 1 114 

8. G. convexa (Say), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP x 0.5 ...................................................... 114 

9. Exogyra ponderosa Roemer, Fellowship, N.J. 

ANSP 19362 x 0.6 ................................................. 115 


PLATE 19 


PLATE 20 

Figure Page 

1. Exogyra costata Say, New Jersey 

ANSP19881x0.8 .................................................... 117 

2. E. ponderosa erraticostata Stephenson, Haddonfield, N.J. 

.................................................... 

ANSP 19338 x 0.7 116 

3. E. costata spinifera Stephenson, Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 19577 x 0.5 .................................................... 119 

4. E. costata Say, (TYPE of Ostrea torosa Morton), Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 16575 x 0.7 ................................................... 117 


PLATE 20 


PLATE 21 

Figure Page 

1. Exogyra cancellata Stephenson, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 19882 x 0.7 .................................................... 119 

2. E. cancellata Stephenson, New Egypt, N.J. 

ANSP x 1 .......................................................... 119 

3. Gryplaaeostrea vomer (Morton), New Egypt, N.J. 

AMNH 8796 x 3 ..................................................... 113 

4. Trigonia mortoni Whitfield, Woodstown, N.J. 

ANSP 720 x 1 ...................................................... 121 

5. T. cerulia Whitfield, (TYPE), Beers Hill, N.J. 


6. T. kiimmeli Weller, Red Bank, N.J. 


7. T. eufaulensis Gabb, Timber Creek, N.J. 

NJSM 19347, x 2.5 .................................................... 123 

8. T. thoracica Morton (after Weller) (= T. mortoni Whitfield) ........ 121 


PLATE 21 


PLATE 22 

Figure Page 

1. Trigonia eufaulensis Gabb, Fellowship well, N.J. 

ANSP 19884 x 3 .................................................... 123 

2. Pecten whitfieldi Weller, Holmdel, N.J. 

NJSM8034x 1 ..................................................... 127 

3. P. cliffwoodensis Weller, (TYPE), Cliffwood, N.J. 

NJSM 7785 x 2 .................................................... 128 

4. P. bellisculplus (Conrad), Freehold, N.J. 


5. P. parvus (Whitfield), (TYPE) Freehold, N.J. 

NJSM 754m8 x 3 .................................................... -132 

6. Spondylus gregalis Morton, New Egypt, N.J. 


7. S. gregalis Morton, Freehold, N.J. 


8. Lima lorilld+densis Weller, (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 


9. L. reticutata Lyell and Forbes, Freehold, N.J. 


10. L. reticulata Lye11 and Forbes, Swedesboro, N.J. ;. 


11. L. monmouthensis (Whitfield), Marlboro, N.J. 


12. Plagiostoma erecta (Whitfield), (TYPE), Marshalltown, ( ? ) , N.J. 

NJSM9634x1.5 .................................................... 146 

13. Paranomia scabra (Morton), New Jersey 

ANSP 3965 x 2 ..................................................... 149 

14. A'nomia argentaria Morton (TYPE), New Jersey 

ANSP 19888 x 1 .................................................... 147 

15. A. argentaria Morton, Lenola, N.J. 

ANSP 7743 x 1.5 .................................................... 147 . 

. . 

16. A tellinoides Morton, Del. 

QNSP 19887 x 1 .................................................... 148 


PLATE 22 


PLATE 23 

Figure Page 

1. Pecten venustus Morton, Arneytown, N.J. 

ANSP 16165 x 1.1 .................................................. 133 

2. P. venustus Morton, Tinton Falls, N.J. 


3. P. burlingtonensis Gabb, Burlington Coun:y, N.J. 

ANSP 18756 x 0.5 ................................................... 129 

4. P. venustus Morton, New Jersey 

ANSP 19340 x 2 ................................................... 133 

5. P. quinquinarius Conrad, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP18805 x 1 .................................................... 131 

6. P. perlamelloszrs Whitfield (= P. burlingtonensis Gabb), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18758 x 1 ................................................... 129 

7. P. conradi (Whitfield), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18757 x 1.2 .................................................. 130 

8. P. tenuitestus Gabb, Burlington Coun:y, N.J. 

ANPS 18759 x 0.9 .................................................. 126 

9. P. (Neithea) quinquecostata Sowerby, Lenola, N.J. 

x 1.5 .............................................................. 135 

10. P. bellisculptus (Conrad), (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18755 x 2.5 ................................................. 129 

11. P. conradi (Whitfield), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP18757x1.2 ................................................... 130 

12. P. simplicius Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19367 x 1.2 .................................................. 134 

13. P. venestus Morton, Navesink formation 



F ",

PLATE 23 


PLATE 24' 

Figure Page 

1. Pecten craticulus Morton, Arneytown, N.J. 

ANSP 18804 x 1.. .................................................... 134 

2. PEicatula urticosa (Morton), New Jersey 

ANSP 18711 x 1.. ................................................... 13? 

3. P. urticosa (Morton) (TYPE?), New Jersey 

ANSP 18711 x 1 .................................................... 137 

4. P. urticosa (Morton), Lenola, N. J. 

ANSP 14 x 2 ....................................................... 137 

5,6. P. woodburyensis Weller (after Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 138 

7,8. Dianchora echinata (Morton), Woodmans farm, Monmouth County, N.J. 

ANSP 18713 x 1 .................................................... 140 

9. Liroscapha squamosa Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19412 x 2 ................................................. 141 

10. Spondylus gregalis Morton, Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18712 x 0.5.. .................................................. 139 

11. S. gregalis Morton, Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18712 x 0.5.. .................................................. 139 

12. Lima pelagica Morton (TYPE), N.J. 

ANSP 18754 x 1. ................................................... 142 

13. L. whitfieldi Weller, Holmdel, N.J. 



PLATE 24 


PLATE 25 

Figz~re Page 

1. Paranomia scabra (Morton), New Jersey 

ANSP 3969 x 1.. ................................................... 149 

2. Bnomia radiata Weller (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 


3. Mytilus smocki Weller (COTYPE), Walnford, N. J. 


4. M. oblivir~s Whitfield (TYPE), Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP19365 x 2 ..................................................... 152 

5. Volsella monmouthensis (Weller) , Matawan, N.J. 


6. V. burlingtonensis (Whitfield), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18801 x 1 .................................................... 153 

7. V. julia (Lea), Lorillard, N.J. 


8. V. wenonah ( WelIer) , Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 7681 x 4.. .................................................... 155 

9. Crenella serica Conrad, Swedesboro, N.J. 


10. C. elegantula Meek and Hayden, Beers Hill, N.J. 

NJSM 7500 x 2.5. ..................................................... 156 

11. Lithophaga ripleyana Gabb, Walnford, N.J. 

NJSM 9947 x 4.. ........ .:. ........................................ 156 

12. L. afinis Gabb (TYPE), N.J. 

ANSP 18802 x 1.2 ................................................... 157 

13. A'natina jerseyensis Weller, Marlboro, N.J. 


Id. A. ierseyensis Weller, Jamesburg, N.J. 



PLATE 25 


PLATE 26 

Figure Page 

1. Volseltu burlingtonensis (Whitfield), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18801 x 0.8 .................................................. 153 

2. Mytitus smocki Weller, Walnford, N.J. 


3. Pholadomya occidentalis Morton. Lenola, N.J. 


4. P. occidentalis Morton, Shrewsbury, N.J. 

AMNH 8829 x about 0.6.. .......................................... 158 

5. P. roemeri Whitfield, Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 9735 x 1.2.. ................................................. 159 

6. Cercomya peculiaris (Conrad), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18768 x 1.. .................................................. 161 

7. Periplomya elliptica (Gabb), Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 18767 x 1 ..... .,. ............................................. 164 

8. Corimya tenuis Whitfield, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 19358 x 1. .,... ............................................... 165 

9. Cymella bella texaiza Stephenson, Lorillard, N.J. 

NJSM 7723 x 0.9.. .................................................. 170 

10. C. bella texana Stephenson, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP x 3 ......................................................... 170 

11. Veniella conradi Morton, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18785 x 4. .................................................... 173 


PLATE 26 


PLATE 27 

Figure Page 

1. Anatina cliffwoodensis Weller. Cliffwood, N.J. 

NJSM 9554 x 3. ..................................................... 160 

2. A. jamesburgensis Weller (TYPE), Jamesburg, N.J. 

NJSM 8958 x 2 ..................................................... 161 

3. Anatimya anteradiata Conrad, Marlboro, N.J. 


4. A. lata (Whitfield), Marlboro, N.J. 


5. A. anteradiata Conrad (after Weller) ............................... 162 

6. Clavagella armata Morton, Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 20010 x 4.5 .................................................... 166 

7. Liopistha protexta (Conrad), Mullica Hill, N.J. 

ANSP 19885 x 3.2.. ................................................. 167 

8. L. protezta (Conrad), MiddIetown, N.J. 


9. Cymella unduta (Meek and Hayden), Marlboro, N.J. 

NJSM 974$6 x 3.. .................................................... 171 

10. Lio~istha alternata Weller, Jamesburg, N.J. 


11. L. kiimmeli Weller, Lenola, N.J. 

NJSM 7757 x 2.... ................................................ 169 


PLATE 27 


PLATE 28 

Figure Page 

1. Cuspidaria jerseyensis Weller, Crawfords Corner, N.J. 

NJSM 7568 x 3.. ................................................... 172 

2. C. ventricosa (Meek and Hayden), Red Bank, N.J. 

.................................................... 

NJSM 7516 x 4. 172 

3. VenielZa inflata Morton = V. conradi Morton, Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18786 x 2 ..................................................... 173 

4. Etea delawarensis (Gabb) , Clementon, N.J. 

ANSP 19370 x 2 ..................................................... 177 

5. Veniella conradi Morton, Swedeshoro, N.J. 


6,7. V. (Etea) carolinensis var. aspera Stephenson, Swedesboro, N.J. 


8. V. trapizoidea Conrad, Lenola, N.J. 

ANSP 83 x 2 ....................................................... 175 

9. V. subovalis Whitfield =V. trapezoidea Conrad) (TYPE), Crosswicks, 

N.J. ANSP 18788 x 1.5.. ............................................. 175 


PLATE 28 


PLATE 29 

Figure Page 

1. Eriphyla decemn-ria (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18794 x 1.6 .................................................. 182 

2. Uddenia conradi (Whitfield), Jamesburg, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 191 

3. Eriphyla parilis (Conrad), Marlboro, N.J. 


4. E. declivis (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 183 

5. E. parilis Conrad (after Whitfield) 

x 1 ................................................................. 183 

6. Crassatellites prorus Conrad, Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18739 x 2 .................................................... 186 

7. Crassatella monmouthensis Gabb (= Veniella trapezoidea Conrad), New 

Jersey, ANSP 19389 x 1.2 .......................................... 175 

8. Crassatellites transversus (Gabb), New Jersey, 

................................................... 

ANSP 18744 x 1.. 185 

9. C. subpl-nus (Conrad), Red Bank, N.J. 

................................................... 

NJSM 7511 x 0.7 187 

10. C. vadosus (Morton), New Jersey 

................................................... 

ANSP 19396 x 1.. 189 

11. Etea delawnrensis (Gabb), Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 19883 x 1 .................................................... 177 

12. Crassatellites szibplanus (Conrad), Arneytown, N.J. 

ANSP1871.3 x1 ..................................................... 187 

13. C. subplanus (Conrad), Arneytown, N.J. 

ANSP18743 x 1 ...................................................... 187 

14. Veniella conradi Morton, Swedesboro, N.J. (after Weller) 

x 1 ................................................................. 173 

15. Crassatella monmouthensis Gabb (= Veniella trapezoidea Conrad,) 

(TYPE), Monmouth County N.J., ANSP 18738 x 0.9.. ................. 175 


PLATE 29 


PLATE 30 

Figure Page 

1. Crassatellites Einteus (Conrad) (af~er Weller), Swedesboro, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 190 

2. C. linteus Conrad (after Weller) , Swedesboro, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 190 

3. Diceras ductyloides Whitfield, Walnford, N.J. 

................................................... 

NJSM 7579 x 1.5.. 194 

4. Caprotin@ jerseyensis Weller (TYPE), Crawford Corner, N.J. 

NJSM 7547 x 2.. 195 

................................................... 

' 5. Unicardium umbonata (Whitfield), New Egyp?, N.J. 

ANSP 20013 x 1 ..................................................... 195 

6. Lucina sp., Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18749a x 6 .................................................... 199 

7. L. glebula Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18749 x 6.. ................................................... 196 

8. L. glebula Conrad (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18749 x 2.. ................................................. 196 

9. L. glebula Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18749 x 2.5.. ................................................ 196 

10. L. swedesboroensis Weller, Swedesboro, N.J. 

NJSM 9654 x 2.5. .................................................. 197 

11. L. swedesboroensis Weller, Swedesboro, N.J. 


12. Crassatellites carolinensis Conrad, North Carolina 

(after Conrad) x 1 ................................................ 184 

13. Crassatellites prorus Conrad (after Whitfield), Crosswicks, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 186 

14. C. prorus Conrad (after Whitfield), Crosswicks, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 186 


PLATE 30 


PLATE 31 

Figure Page 

1. Etea delawarensis (Gabb) (TYPE), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18733 x 2 .................................................... 177 

2. Crassatellites cuneatus (Gabb), Lenola, N.J. 

NJSM 7747 x 2.5 .................................................... .185 

3,4. C. hodgei Stephenson, Fellowship well, N.J. 

ANSP 19756 x 2.5 .................................................... 187 

5. Tenea pinguis (Conrad), New Jersey 

ANSP 18745 x 2.. ................................................... 219 

6, 7. Vetericardia crenalirata (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 13325 x 5.5 ................................................... 184 

8. V. crenalirata (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19377 x 5 .................................................... 184 

9. Scambula perplana Conrad (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18740 x 5.. .................................................. 192 

10,ll. Lucina parva Stephenson, Mi. Laurel well, N.J. 

ANSP 686 x 2.5 .................................................... 198 

12,13. Tenea parilis (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 1874.7 x 2.5.. ................................................ 218 


PLATE 31 


PLATE 32 

Figure Page 

1. Cardium wenonah Weller, Marlboro, N.J. 


2. C. longstreeti Weller (TYPE), Crawfords Corner, N.J. 


3. C. whitfieldi Weller (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 


4. C. ripleyanum Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

................................................... 

ANSP 18794 x 8.. 205 

5. C. spillmani Conrad, Marawan, N.J. 

...................................................... 

NJSM 7745 x 2 205 

6. C. spillmani Conrad, New Jersey 

x 1 ................................................................. 205 

7. C. uniformis Weller (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 

................................................... 


8. C. dzrrnosum Conrad, Middletown, N.J. 

NJSM 10204 x 1. .................................................. 210 

9. C. duosum Conrad (after Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 210 

10. C. tenuistriatum Whitfield, Lenola, N.J. 

x 1 .................................................................. 211 

11. C. dumosum Conrad (TYPE) Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 20012 x 1.. ................................................. 210 

12. C. longstreeti Weller, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del., 

....................................................... 

USGS x 2.. 201 

19. r. ---:i,'or;zis Weller (after Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................... 209 


PLATE 32 


PLATE 33 

Figure Pnge 

1. Cardiz~m ezcfazcle~~sis Conrad, Mt. Laurel well, N.J. 

ANSP 663 x 3 ........................................................ 200 

*, 

2. C. cliflwoodensis Weller (TYPE), Cliffwood, N.J. 


3. C. lorillardensis Weller (TYPE), LoriIIard, N.J. 

NJSM 7721 w 1 ..................................................... 204 

4. C. kiimmeli Weller (COTYPE), Beers Hill, N.J. 

NJSM SICS x 0.5.. .................................................. 207 

p 

.................................................... 

11. C. trillineatzcm Weller, Atlantic Highlands, N.J. 

NJSM 7553 x 4.. 210 

12,13. C. eufaulensis Conrad, Fellowship well, N.J. 

ANSP 19~62 x 3 ..................................................... 200 

14. C. pilsbryi Weller, Maple Shade, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 213 

15. C. pilsbryi Weller, Lenola, N.J. 


16. Protocardium jerseyensis Weller, Jamesburg, N.J. 


17. Fzilvia tenuis Whitfield, Holmdel, N.J. 


18. Isocardia cliffwoodensis Weller (TYPE), Matawan, N.J. 


19. Isocardia tintonensis Weller, Beers Hill, N.J. 


20. Cyprimeria densata (Conrad) (TYPE), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 18773 x 0.5.. .................................................. 220 

21. C. excavata (Morton), Swedesboro, N.J. 


22. C. heilprini Whitfield (TYPE), = C. densata (Conrad), Crosswicks, N.J. 

ANSP 18771~ 1 220 

..................................................... 


PLATE 33 


PLATE 34 

Figure Page 

1. Cyprimeria welleri Stephenson (after Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 223 

2. C. welleri Stephenson (af:er Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 223 

3. Aphrodina cretacea (Conrad) (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 4143 x 2.. .................................................... 225 

4. A. cretacea (Conrad) (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 4143 x 2.. ................................................... 225 

5. A. tippana jerseyensis Richards, Morristown, N.J. 

NJSlVl 8990 x 0.6.. .................................................. 224 

6,7. A. eufaulensis (Conrad), Swedesboro, N.J . 


8,9. Cypremaria depressa Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

AlVSP 4138 x 0.8 .................................................. 222 


PLATE 34 


PLATE 35 

Figure Page 

1. Legumen concentricurn Stephenson, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP16316x 1 ..................................................... 227 

2. TeElina gabbi Gardner, Shrewsbury River, N.J. 


3. Linearia metmtriatz Conrad, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 19897 x 1.. ................................................... 231 

4,5. L. metastriata Conrad, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19417 x 2 .................................................... 231 

6. L. ornatissima Weller, Lorillard, N. J. 


7. Aenona eufaulen.sis (Conrad) (after Weller), Haddonfield, N.J. 

x 3 ................................................................ 235 

8. A. eufaulensis (Conrad) (af:er Weller), Haddonfield, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................. 235 

9. A. papyria Conrad (after Weller), Haddonfizld, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 236 

10. Solyma lineolatus Conrad, Lenola, N.J. 

ANSP x 1 .......................................................... 237 

11,12. Cymbophora trigonalis Stephenson (after Weller), Cliffwood, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 243 

13. Siliqua ? ventricosa n. sp. Richards, N.J. 

ANSP 17179 x 1.. .................................................. 242 

14. Cymbophora lintea? (Conrad), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 16261 x 7.. ................................................... 244 

15,16. C. lintea (Conrad), Snow Hill, N.C. 

ANSP 15258 x 2.4.. ................................................. 244 

17. Legumen planuhtum Conrad (after Conrad) 

x 1 ................................................................ 227 


PLATE 35 


PLATE 36 

Figure Page 

1. Legumen concentricurn Stephenson, Maple Shade, NJ. 

ANSP19404x2 ..................................................... 227 

2. L. concentricum Stephenson, Matawan, N.J. 

NJSM 7760 xl ...................................................... 227 

3. L. ellipticum Conrad (TYPE), N.J. 

ANSP 16340 x 1.8 ................................................... 229 

4,s. Tellina georgiana Gabb, Crawfords Corner, N.J. 


6. T. gabbi Gardner, Shrewsbury River, N.J. 


7. T. gabbi Gardner, Marlboro, N.J. 


8. Linearia coniracta Whitfield (TYPE), Holmdel, N.J. 


9. Tellinamera eborea (Conrad) (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18769 x 1.5 ................................................... 235 

10. T. eborea (Conrad), Marlboro, N.J. 



PLATE 36 


PLATE 37 

Figure I'cige 

1. Leptosolen biplicata (Conrad), Marlboro, NJ. 


2. L. terminalis Weller (TYPE), Jamesburg, N.J. 


3. L. elongata Weller (TYPE), Middletown, N.J. 

NJSM 10220 x 1.8. ................................................... .241 

4. Siliqua cretacea (Gabb), Rurlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 16325 x 1 .................................................... 241 

5. Solyma lineolatus Conrad (TYPE), Hnddonfield, N.3. 

ANSP 16327 x 2.. .................................................. 237 

6. Mactra pentangularis Weller (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 

................................................... 

NJSM 7731 x 2.5. 243 

7. Cyrnbophora tellinoides (Whitfield) (TYPE), Marlboro, N.J. 


8. Schizodesma appressa Gabb, Marlboro, N.J. 



PLATE 37 


PLATE 38 

Figure Page 

1. Corbula foutkei Lea, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19419 x 2 .................................................... 250 

2. C. ~Eifjuioodensis Weller (TYPE), Cllffwood, N.J. 

NJSM 9579 x4 ...................................................... 253 

3. C. jerseyensis Weller, CliEwood, N.J. 


4. C. swedesboroerasis Weller, Swedesboro, N.J. 


5. C. foulkei Lea, Haddollfield, N.J. 

ANSP 19619 x 2.. .................................................. 250 

6. C. crassiplica Gabb, Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP19606 x 4 ..................................................... 231 

7. C. bisulcata Conrad, Cliffwood, N.J. 


8. Fanopea decisa Conrad, Matawan, N.J. 


9. Gastrochaena whitfieldi Weller, Brewer's Pits, Walnford, N.J. 


10. Kiimmelia americana (Gabb), Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 19423 x 2.. ................................................... 2.78 

11. Gastrochaena linguiformis Weller, Summit Bridge, Del. 

ANSP 19416 x 1.2 .................................................. 258 

12. Martesia cretacea (Gabb), New Jersey 

ANSP 2283 x 2.. ................................................... 264 

13. Sphaerola umbonata (Whitfield) (TYPE), = Unicardium, N.J. 

ANSP 18748 (cast of interior) x 1.. .................................. 195 

14. Corbula foulkei Lea (TYPE), Haddonfield, N.J. 

ANSP 18766 x 1.. .................................................. 250 


PLATE 38 


PLATE 39 

E'igure Page 

1-3. Corbula lorillardensis Weller (after Weller), Lorillard, N.J. 

x 2 ............................................................... 249 

4. C. bisulcata Conrad, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

JHU x 1.5.. ........................................................ 249 

5. Panopea decisa Conrad, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

USGS x 1.. ......................................................... 256 

6. Pholas lorillardensis Richards (TYPE), Lorillard, N.J. 

NJSM 9597 x 2 ..................................................... 261 

7. P. cithara Morton, Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP19415 x 2 ..................................................... 259 

8. Martesia cretacea (Gabb) (after Gabb) 

x 1 ................................................................. 264 

9. Pholas cithura Morton, Chesapealre and Delaware Canal, Del. 

ANSP 19415 x 1 .................................................... 259 

10. P. pectrosa Conrad, Tinton Falls, N.J. 

ANSP 16272 x 1. .................................................... 260 

11. Xylophugella kiimmeli (Weller) (after Weller), Swedesboro, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................. 263 

12. X. kiimmeli (Weller) (after Weller), Swedesboro, N.J, 

x 1 ................................................................. 263 

13-16. Goniochasma (after Weller) , Swedesboro, N.J. 

x 2 ............................................................... 267 

17. Xylophagella irregularis (Gabb), Burlington County, N.J. 

ANSP 15908 x 0.6.. ................................................. 261 

18. X. irregularis (Gabb), Maple Shade, N.J. 

ANSP 15078 x 0.5.. ................................................ 261 

19. X. irregularis (Gabb), NJ. 

ANSP 15900 x 1 ................................................... 261 


PLATE 39 


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PLATE 40 

Figure Page 

1. Ambonlcardia cookii Whitfield, Sayreville, N.J. 


2. Geloina ? tenuidens (Whitfield), Sayreville, N.J. 


3. Callistinu ? johnsoni (Richards), Sayreville, N.J. 


4. C. ? johnsoni (Richards) (TYPE), Sa~revjlle, NJ. 


5. Mytilus ? planus Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 


6. Plicatula howelli Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 


7. Leptosolen elongata Weller ?, Sayreville, N.J. 


8. Astarte ? annosa Conrad, South River, N.J. 

(after Conrad) x 1 .................................................. 181 

9. Astarte oeta Conrad, South River, N.J. 

(after Conrad) x 1.. ............................................... 180 

10. Corbula greywaczi Richards (squeeze of TYPE) Sayreville, N.J. 



PLATE 40 


PLATE 4 1 

Figure Page 

1,2. Martesia cretacea magnatz~ba Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, NJ. 

NJSM 10472 x 1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 


PLATE 41 


PLATE 42 

Figure Page 

1. Barb~ia ? cuniculana Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 88 

2. B ? cuniculana (PARATYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 2 ................................................................ 88 

5,4. Nemodon obeszcs Stephenson (COTYPES), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 2 ............................................................... 74 

5. Phelopteria dalli (Stephenson), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ................................................................ 102 

6. Ostrea soleniscus Meek, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 .............................................................. 113 

7. Phelopteria dalli (Stephenson), Sayreville, NJ. 

x 1 .............................................................. 102 

8. ldonearca blanpiedi Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................... 80 

9. Opis ? elevata biangulata Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1.5 .............................................................. 181 

10. P1ica:ula howelli Richards, Sayreville, NJ. 

x 1.5 ............................................................. 138 

11. Ostrea jersiana Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................... 112 

12. Flicatula ferrata Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1.5 .............................................................. 139 

(From Stephenson, 1954) 


PLATE 42 


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PLATE 43 

Figure Page 

1. Geloina ? tenuidens (Whitfield), Sayreville, N.J. 

NJSM 7794 x I.. ................................................... 178 

2. Corbicula ? whitfceldi Richards, Sa~reville, N.J. 


3. Corbicula ? emacerata Whitfield (TYPE), Woodbridge, N.J. 


4. Astarte veta Conrad (TYPE), South River, N.J. 

ANSP 14360 x 1.. .................................................. 180 

5. Pinna sp. Sayreville, X.J. 

NJSM 10574 x 1 .................................................. 

6-9. Corbula manleyi Weller, Sayreville, N.J. Univ. Chicago 

10833 x 1 .......................................................... 247 

10. Corbicula ? whitfieldi Richards, Sayreville, N.J. 


11. Cardium sayri Richards, Sayreville, N.J. 

c NJSM 10442 x 1. .................................................. 214 

12. Anomia argentaria Morton, Sayreville, N.J. 


13. Exogyra sp, Sayresville, N.J. 

NJSlVI 10444 x 1. .................................................. 121 

14. Cardium raritanensis Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

10538 x 1 ......................................................... 214 

15. Anchura raritanensis Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, NJ. 

NJSM 10434 x 1.. .............................................. .Part 2 

16. Avellana ? raritana Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 


17. Aliofusus sayri Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 


18. Avelana pelagana Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

NJSM 10540 x 1.. ............................................... .Part 2 

19. Amauropsis cadwaladeri Richards (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

NJSM 10436 .................................................... Part 2 


PLATE 43 


PLATE 44 

Figure Page 

1. Inoceramus proximzts Tnomey, Sayreville, N.J. 

............................................... 

NJSM 10472 x 0.5.. 95 

2. Anchura bakeri Richards (TYPE), Suyreville, N.J. 

NJSM 10448 x 1.. ............................................. .Part 2 

3. Turritella bakeri Richards (TYPE I, Sayrcville, N.J. 

NJSM 10575 x 1.. ............................................... .Part 2 

4,5. Gyrodes aff. petrosus Morron, Sayreville, N.J. 

NJSM 10542 x 1.. 

.............................................. 

.Part 2 

6. Corbz~Ea nzanleyi duplex Ri-hards (squeeze of TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

NJSM10537 x 1 .................................................... 248 

7. Fasciolaria sp. Sayreville, N.J. 

ANSP 15801 x 1.. ............................................... .Part 2 


PLATE 44 


PLATE 45 

Figure Page 

1. Cliona retijormis Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 ............................................................ 30 

2, 3. Pteropoma raritanum (Richards), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1.5 .......................................................... Part 2 

4. Linearia lirulifera Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................ 234 

5. Naritra polliciformis Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................ .Part 2 

6,7. N. polliciformis Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 ........................................................... .Part 2 

8. Paladmete pridina Stephenson (PARATYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 .......................................................... .Part 2 

9. P. pristina Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 .......................................................... Par 2 

10. Lirpsa lepida Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 2 .................................... .I.. ................... .Part 2 

11. Caryocorbuka ovisana Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 ............................................................. 255 

12. Voysa ? cuniculana Stephenson (TYPE), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 3 ............................................................ Part 2 

13,14. Anchura pontana Stephenson, Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1 ............................................................ Part 2 

15. Geloina ? tenzcidens (Whitfield), Sayreville, N.J. 

x 1.5 ........................................................... 178 

(From Stephenson, 1954) 


PLATE 45 


PLATE 46 

Figure Page 

1. Hardouina emmonsi Stephenson, Matawan, N.J. 

................................................ 

ANSP 30488 x 1 49 

2. Cardium tenuistriatum Whitfield. Well at Lavalette, N.J. (1220 fe-t) 

.................................................. 


3. Turritella sp. Well at Lavalette, N.J. (1220 feet) 

NJSM x 1 ....................................................Part 2 

4,6. Emarginuh ladowae Eichman. Haddonfield, N.J. 

nNSP 20394 x 5.5.. 

......................................... 

..Part 2 

5. Periplomya elliptica, Mullica Hill, N.J. 

AIVSP 18/67 x 1 ................................................. 164 

7. Picurotomaria tintonensis Whitfield, Tinton Falls, N.J. 

x 1 ......................................................... .Part 2 

8. Lundia halli Gahb. Well at Lavale:te, N.J. (1220 feet) 

NJSM x 1 ..................................................... Part 2 

9,lG. Exogyra woolmani Richards. Well near Harrisville, N.J. (1650 feat) 

ANSP x 2.. .................................................... 121 

11,12. Turritella bonaspes Gardner (after Whitfield) 

x 1 .......................................................... .Part 2 

13. Pholas cithara Morton. (=P. petrosa Conrad), Monmouth County, 

N.J. (after Morton) x 1 .......................................... 259 


PLATE 46 



A 

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INDEX 

Page Pluto 

Academy of Natural Sciences 1 

Aenona eufaulensis (Conrad) 235 35 

Aenona papyria Conrad 236 35 

Aeora cretacea Conrad 225 

Ambocardia cookii Whitfield 179 40 

American Philosophical Society 1 

Amusium conradi Whitfield 130 

Amusium simplicum 134 

Anatimya anteradiata Conrad ..... 162 27 

Anatimya lata (Whitfield) ........... 163 27 

Anatina cliffwoodensis Weller ..... 160 27 

Anatina elliptica Gabb ................... 164 238 

Anatina jamesburgensis Weller ... 161 27 

Anatina jerseyensis Weller ........... 159 25 

Anomia argentaria Morton ......... 147 22. 43 

Anomia radiata Weller ................... 149 25 

Anomia tellinoides Morton ........... 148 22 

Aphrodina cretacea (Conrad) ..... 225 34 

Aphrodina eufaulensis (Conrad) . 226 34 

Aphrodina johnsoni Richards ...... 226 

Aphrodina tippana jerseyensis 

Richards ......................................... 224 34 

Aphrodina tippana Whitfield ....... 224 

Arca eufaulensia Gabb ................... 70 

Area obesa (Whitfield) ................. 87 14 

Arca rosteUata Morton ................... 86 17 

Area uniopsis Conrad ..................... 85 14 

Astarte ? annosa Conrad ............... 181 40 

Astarte crenalirata Conrad ........... 184 

Astarte parilis Conrad ................... 183 

Astarte veta Conrad ....................... 180 40. 43 

Astrangia (Coenangia) cretacea 

(Bolsche) ..................................... 33 

Astrea cretacea. Bolsche 33 3 

............... 

Atlantic Highlands ......................... 24 

Avicula abrupta. Conrad ............. 103 

Avicula Iaripes Morton ................. 101 

Avicula linguaeformis ................... 100 

Avicula petrosa Conrad ................... 100 

Azinea alta . Whitfield ................... 90 

Axinea compressa WeVeUer ............... 92 

Axinea congesta ............................. 89 

Axinea microdentus WeUer ......... 91 

Axinea mortoni Conrad ................. 90 

Axinea subaustralis ......................... 90 

Rarbatia ? cuniculana Stephenson 88 42 

Barnsboro ........................................... 25. 26 

Beers Hill ........................................... 26 

Birmingham ..................................... 25 

Bordentown ..................................... 22 

Page 

Breviarca ........................................... 267 

Breviarca cuneata (Gabb) ........... 84 

Breviarca haddonfieldensis 

Stephenson ................................... 82 

Breviarca saffordi ........................... 82 

Breviarca umbonata (Conrad) ... 83 

Burlington ......................................... 22 

"Burlington County" ..................... 22 

C 

....................... 

........... 

Callista delawarsnsis 226 

Callista eufaulensis Conrad 226 

Callistina ? johnsoni (Richards) 226 

Camptonectes bellisculptus Conrad 129 

Camptonectes burlingtonensis ....... 129 

Camtonectes parvus . Whitfield ..... 132 

Caprotina jerseyensis Weller ......... 195 

Cardiaster hilli Cooke ..................... 50 

Cardiaster marylandicus Clark ..... 51 

Cardiaster smocki Clark ................. 50 

Cardium ............................................. 267 

Cardium cliffwoodensis Weller ..... 203 

Cardium dumosum Conrad ........... 210 

Cardium eufaulensis Conrad ......... 200 

Cardium eufaulensis Whitfield ....... 211 

Cardium kummeli Weller ............... 207 

Cardium liuteum Conrad ............... 244 

Cardium longstreeti Weller ........... 201 

Cardium lorillatdensis Weller ....... 204 

Cardium pilsbryi Weller ................. 213 

Cardium protextrm, Conrad ......... 167 

Cardium (Protocardium) 

perelongatum Whitfield ................ 205 

Cardium raritanensis Richards 214 

.... 

Cardium ripleyanum Conrad ......... 205 

Cardium sayri Richards ................ 214 

Cardium spillmani Conrad ............ 205 

Cardium tenuistriatum Whitfield . 211 3 

Cardium trillineaturn Weller ......... 210 

Cardium uniformis Weller ............. 209 

Cardium wenonah Weller ............... 199 

Cardium whitfieldi Weller ............... 202 

Caryocorbula ? ovisana 

Stephenson .................................... 255 

Cassidulus berryi Twitchell ........... 49 

Cassidulus emmonsi Stephenson ... 49 

Cassidulus florealis (Morton) ....... 48 

Catop~gus (Oolop~gus) williamsi 

Clark ........................................... 47 

Catopygus pusillus Clark ............... 47 

Cercomya peculiaris (Conrad) ..... 161 

Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ... 7, 27 

Choristothyris plicata (Say) ......... 56 

Choristothyris vanuxemi Lyell 

and Forbes ..................................... 58 


Page Plate 

Cibota obesa Whitfield .................... 87 

Cibota rostellata .............................. 86 

Cibota uniopsis ................................ 85 

Clavagella armata Morton ............ 166 27 

Clementon .......................................... 21 

Cliffwood ............................................ 21 

"Cliffwood clays" ............................ 15 

Cliona cretacica Fenton & Fenton 29 1 

Cliona microtuberuni 

Stephenson .................................... 29 

Cliona retiformis Stephenson ....... 30 

Clypeaster fiorealis Morton ........... 48 

Clypeaster geometricus Morton .... 45 

2 

45 

Coeloptyehium ? jerseyensis 

Shimer&Powers ........................ 

Collingswaod .................................... 

Colts Neck ........................................ 

"Columbus sand" ............................. 

Corbicula ? annosa .......................... 

Corbicula annosa Whitfield .......... 

Corhicula ? emacerata Whitfield ... 

Corhicula ? whitfieldi Richards ..... 

"Corhula" ........................................... 

Corbula bisulcata Conrad ............... 

Corhula cliffwoodensis Weller ....... 

Corbula crassiplica Gabh ............... 

Corhula foulkei Lea ......................... 

Corbula greywacsi Richards ........... 

Corbula jerseyensis Weller ............. 

Corhula lorillardensis Weller ......... 

Corbula manleyi duplex Richards . 

CorhuIa manleyi WelIer ................... 

Corhula subcompressa. Whitfield . 

Corbula swedesboroensis Weller ... 

Corbula ventricosa Meek & 

Hayden ........................................... 

Corimya tenuis Whitfield ............... 

Corynella jerseyensis Howell ........ 

Crassatella cuneata Gabb .............. 

Crassatella delawarensis Gabb ........ 

Crassatella lineata Shumard ........ 

CrassateUa lintea Conrad ............... 

Crassatella monmouthensis Gabb 

Crassatella prora Conrad .............. 

Crassatella pteropsis Gabb ............ 

Crassatella subplana Conrad ......... 

Crassatella transversa Gabb ........ 

Crassatella vadosa Morton ............. 

Crassatellites carolinensis Conrad 

Crassatellites ? conradi ................... 

Crassatellites cuneatus (Gabb) ..... 

Crassatellites hodgei Stephenson ... 

Crassatellites linteus (Conrad) ... 

Crsrssatellites prorus ....................... 

Crassatellites subplanus (Conrad) 

Crassatellites transversus (Gahh) 

Crassatellites vadosus (Morton) .. 

Crawfords Corner ............................ 

Cream Ridge .................................... 

Crenella elegantula Meek & 

Hayden .......................................... 

Crenella serica Conrad ..................... 

Crosswicks ........................................ 

Crosswicks Creek ............................ 

30 

23 

26 

2 

INDEX 


Page Plate 

Crosswicks formation ..................... 16 

Cucullaea antrosa Morton .............. 7 711. 1 2 

Cucullaea eompressirostra 

(Whitfield) ................................... 7912 

Cucullaea fauna .............................. 18 

Cucullaea littlei ............................... 7912 . 13 

CucuIIaea neglecta Gabb ............... 7813 

Cucullaea tippana ........................... 7 5 1 2 

Cucullaea vulgaris Morton ........... 7513 

Cucullaea woodburyensis Weller . 78 12 

Cultellus eretacea Gabb ................... 241 

Cuspidaria jerseyensis Weller ..... 172 28 

Cuspidaria ventricosa (Meek & 

Hayden) ........................................ 172 28 

Cymbophora lintea (Conrad) ....... 244 35 

Cymbophora tellinoides 

(Whitfield) ................................... 245 37 

Cymbophora trigonalis 

Stephenson ..................................... 

Cymella bella .................................... 

Cymella bella texana Stephenson . 

Cymella meeki ................................... 

Cyrrella undata (Meek & Hayden) 

C'yprimeria cretacea . Weller ............ 

Cyprim.eria cretacensis. Conrad .... 

Cyprimeria densata (Conrad) ..... 

Cy~rimeria depressa Conrad ........ 

Cyprimeria excavata (Morton) .... 

Cyprimeria heilprini Whitfield ..... 

Cyprimeria spissa. Whitfield ....... 

Cyprimeria welleri Stephenson ..... 

Cythere eeacavata Morton ............ 

D 

Dentaliurn falcatum. Conrad ......... 37 

Dentaliurn falcatum . Whitfield ..... 39 

Desmatocium trilobitum Gabh ....... 31 

Dianchora echinata (Morton) ....... 140 24 

Diceras dactyloides Whitfield ....... 194 30 

Dione delawarensis ......................... 226 

Dione delawarensis Gabb ............. 220 

Diploconcha cretacea Conrad ....... 4 1 5 

Diploconcha harhisonae Howell ..... 4 1 5 

Diploschiza cretacea ....................... 147 

Donas fordii Conrad ....................... 5 9 1 0 

Dosina ? erecta Whitfield ............... 146 

Dosinia depressa Conrad ............... 222 

Dosinia gabbi Whitfield ................... 218 

Dosinia haddonfieldensis Lea ....... 222 

E 

Englishtown formation ................... 16 . 23 

Eriphyb conradi ............................. 191 

Eriphyla decemnaria (Conrad) ..... 182 29 

Eriphyla declivis (Conrad) ........... 183 29 

Eriphyla parilis (Conrad) ........... 183 29 

Etea carolinensis ............................... 175 29 

Etea delawarensis (Gabh) ............ 177 28. 31 

Etea trapezoidea ............................... 175 

Eudea dichotoma Gabh ................... 31 

Exogyra ............................................. 267 

Exogyra cancellata Stephenson ... 119 21 

Exogyra costata Say ....................... 117 20

Page Plate 

Exogyra costata var . spinifera 

Stephenson .................................... 

Exogyra costata war . spinosa . 

119 20 

Stephenson .................................... 119 

Exogyra ponderosa Roemer ........ 115 19 

Exogyra ponderosa var . errati- 

costata ........................................... 116 20 

Exogyra woolmani Richards ........ 121 46 

Exogyra zones ................................ 19 

Faujasia f1oreal;s (Morton) ........ 

Faujasia geometrica (Morton) .. 

Fellowship 

...................................... 

Filogranula jerseyensis Howell .. 

Fort Dix ............................................ 

Fragum tenuistriatum .................. 

Freehold ............................................ 

Fulpia ............................................... 

Fulvia tenuis Whitfield .................. 

Gastrochaena americana Gabb .... 258 

Gastrochaena linguiformis Weller 258 38 

Gastrochaena whitfieldi Weller .. 257 38 

Geloina ? tenuidens (Whitfield) ... 178 40. 43. 

45 

Gervillia ensiformis. Conrad ....... 94 

Gervilliopsis ensiformis (Conrad) 94 15 . 17 

Gervilliopsis minima Whitfield ..... 95 17 

Gl~cymeris compressa (Weller) ... 92 14 

Glycymeris microdentus (Weller) 91 14 

Glycymeris mortoni (Conrad) ..... 90 14 

Glycymeris whitleyensis ................ 90 

Gnathodon ? tenuidens Whitfield . 178 

Goniochasma .................................... 267 39 

Goniosoma inflata Conrad ............ 173 

Gouldia conradi Whitfield ............... 191 

Gouldia decemnaria Conrad ........... 182 

Gouldia declivis Conrad ................. 183 

GouLdia parilis ................................. 183 

Gryphaea convexa (Say) ............... 114 19 

Gryphaea dissimilaris Weller ...... 115 

Gryphaea mutabilis Morton ......... 114 

Gryphaea vesicularis (Lamarck) 114 

Gryphaea vomer .............................. 113 

Gryphaeostrea vomer (Morton) .. 113 21 

INDEX 

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Hardouinia ? stetsoni Stephenson 49 

Harrisonville ..................................... 23 

"Hazlet sand" ................................. 16 

Hemiaster delawarensis Clark ... 5 3 8 

"Hemiaster kiimmeli Clark ........... 5 2 8 

Hemiaster nngula (Morton) ....... 5 2 8 

Hemiaster welleri Clark ................. 5 3 8 

Holaster unqula (Morton) ........... 52 

Holmdel .............................................. 24 

Hornerstown ..................................... 18 

Hurffville ........................................... 25 

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... 

Zdoncarca antrosa 77 

Idonearea blanpiedi Stephenson 8 0 4 2 

Zdonearea compressirostra 

Whitfield ........................................ 79 

Zdonearea littlci Gabb .................... 79 

Zdonearca medians. Whitjield ...... 75 

Idonearca tippana .......................... 75 

Idonearea vza'gar~s .......................... 75 

Znoceramus barabiui Whitfield .... 97 

Inoceramus confertim-annulatus 

Roemer ........................................... 9 715. 1 8 

Znoceramus peculiaris Conrad ....... 161 

Inoceramus ? perovalis Conrad ..... 9 9 1 5 

Inoceramus pro-ohliqua Whitfield . 98 15 

Inoceramus proximus Tuomey ....... 9 515. 4 4 

Inoceramus quadrans Whitfield ..... 9 6 1 5 

Inoceramus sagensis. war . quadrans 

WFitfteld ........................................ 96 

Znoceramus sagensis. Whitfield .... 95 

Zsocardia cliffwoodensis Weller .... 216 33 

Isocardia tintonensis Weller ........ 216 33 

Jacohstown ........................................ 25 

Jamesburg ........................................ 22 

Kummnlia americana (Gabh) ...... 258 38 

Haddonfield ....................................... 23 

Halyminites major Lesquereux ..... 42 

Hamulus ialcatus (Conrad) ........ 37 

Hamulz~s lineatus. Weller .............. 40 

Hamulus major Gabb .................... 40 

Hamulus squamosus Gabb ............ 39 

Hamulus walkerensis praecursor 

Howell ........................................... 40 

9 

4 

5 

5 

5 

L 

Lavalette ............................................ 

Leda angulata. Gabb ...................... 

Lcda cliffwoodensis Weller ............ 

Leda compressifrons Weller .......... 

Leda gabbana .................................... 

Leda longifrons Conrcd ................ 

Leda marlboroensis Weller ............ 

Leda pinna forma Gabb ................. 

Leda wrotezta Gabb ........................ 

Leda slackiana Gabb ...................... 

~~d~ tintonensis weller ................ 

60 

63 

Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson 39 

Hamulus wenonahanus Howell .... 38 

Hardouinia berryi (TwitcheU) .. 49 

Hardouinia florealis (Morton) ..... 48 

Hardouinia mortonis emmonsi ..... 49 

4 

7 

46 

Leda whitfieldi .................................. 66 

L~~~~~~ uppressurn whitfield .... 227 

Legumen concentricum 

Stephenson .................................... 227 35 . 36 

Legumen ellipticum Conrad .......... 229 36 


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Legumen planulatum Conrad ...... 227 

Leiopistha inflata. Whitfield ........ 167 

Lenola ................................................ 22 

Leptosolen biplicata (Conrad) .... 239 

Leptosolen ? clongata Weller ........ 241 

Leptosolen ? terminalis Weller .... 240 

Lima auctilineata ............................ 144 

Lima lorillardensis Weller ............ 143 

Lima monmouthensis (Whitfield) 145 

Lima pelagica Morton .................... 142 

Lima reticulata Lyell & Forbes .... 144 

Lima whitfieldi Weller .................... 143 

Linearia contracta Whitfield ........ 233 

Linearia lirulifera Stephenson .... 234 

Linearia metastriata Conrad ........ 23 1 

Linearia ornatissima Weller ........ 232 

Lingula subspatulata Hall and 

Meek ................................................ 55 

Liopistha alternata Weller ............ 168 

Liopistha kiimmeli Weller .............. 169 

Liopistha protexta (Conrad) ...... 167 

Liroscapha squamosa Conrad ...... 141 

Lithodomus aflnis .......................... 157 

Lithodomus riplegana .................... 156 

Lithophaga affinis Gabb ................ 157 

Lithophaga ripleyana Gabb .......... 156 

Lithophaga riplegana. Weller ...... 157 

Longitubus lineatus ( Weller) ...... 40 

Lorillard ............................................ 22 

Lucina cretacea . Weller ................ 196 

Lucina glebula Conrad .................... 196 

Lucina parva Ste~henson .............. 198 

Lucina pinguis Conrad .................. 219 

Lucinn smockana lvhitfield .......... 220 

Lucina sutedesboroensis Weller .... 197 

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Mactra pentangularis Weller 243 37 

Magothy formation 15 21 

Manasquan 18 

Maple Shade 22 

Marlboro 24 25 

Marshalltown 23 

Marshalltown formation 16 

Martesia cretacea (Gabb) ............ 264 38. 39 

Martesia cretacea magnatuba 

Richards ........................................ 265 41 

Matawan ............................................ 21. 22. 24 

Matawan group ................................ 15 

Meleagrinella abrupta (Conrad) 103 17 

Merchantville .................................... 22 

Merchantville formation .............. 15 . 21 

Meretrix eufaulensis ........................ 226 

Meretrix tippana. Weller .............. 224 

Micrabacia americana. Weller ...... 33 

Micrabacia cribraria Stephenson 33 3 

Micraster ungula (Morton) .......... 52 

Middletown ........................................ 24. 26 

Modiola burlingtonensis Whitfield 153 

Modiola juliae Lea .......................... 154 

Modiola monmouthensis Weller ... 152 

Modiola wenonah Weller .............. 155 

Monmouth group ............................ 17 

INDEX 


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Mount Laurel .................................... 22. 25 

Mount Laurel and Navesink 

formation ...................................... 

Mount Laurel sand .......................... 

Mullica Hill ...................................... 

Ml~aia (Diplodonta) parilis 

24 

17 

25 

Conrad ............................................ 218 

Mgsia gibbosa . Gabb ...................... 219 

Mytilus oblivius Whitfield ............... 152 25 

Mytilus ? planus Richards ............ 152 40 

Mytilus smocki Weller .................... 151 25. 26 

Naritra polliciformis Stephenson 

Navesink marl .................................. 

Neithea quinquecostata ................. 

Nernoarca cretacea Conrad .......... 

Nemodon angulatum (Gabb) ...... 

Nemodon brevifrons Conrad ........ 

Nemodon conradi Johnson ............ 

Ncmodon eufaulensis ...................... 

Nemodon eufaulensis (Gabb) .... 

Nemodon obesus Stephenson ........ 

New Egypt ......................................... 

Nucula monmouthensis WhitSLeld 

Nucula percrassa Conrad .............. 

Nucula slackiana (Gabb) .............. 

Nucula whitfieldi Weller ................ 

Nuculana cliffwoodensis (Weller) . 

Nuculana compressfrons 

Whitfield ........................................ 

Nuculana gabbana. Whitfield ...... 

Nuculana longifrons (Conrad) .. 

Nuculana marlboroensis ................ 

Nuculana pinnuformis .................... 

Nuculana pinnaformis (Gabb) .. 

Nuculana protexta Gabb .............. 

Nuculana stephensoni Richards .. 

Nuculana tintonensis (Weller) .. 

Nuculana whitfieldi Gardner ........ 

Nncularia papgria Conrad ............ 

Opis ? elevata triangulata 

Stephenson .................................... 181 

Ospriosolen ventricosa Conrad ...... 242 

Ostrea ( Alectryonia) jerseiana 

Stephenson .................................... 112 42 

Ostrea congesta .............................. 105 16 

Ostrea convexa. Say ...................... 114 

Ostrea crenulimarginata ................ 111 

Ostrea cretacea Morton ................ 104 16 

Ostrea denticulifera. Conrad ........ 111 18 

Ostrea falcata .................................. 109. 110 

Ostrea falcata Morton .................... 108 19 

Ostrea larva ...................................... 108 

109 

110 

Ostrea mesenterica Morton .......... 109 16 

Ostrea monmouthensis Weller ...... 107 16. 19 

Ostrea nasuta Morton ..................... 110 16 

Ostrea panda Morton .................... 105 16 

Ostrea plumosa Morton ................ 111 17. 19

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Ostrea soleniscus Meek .................. 113 42 

Ostrea subspatulata Forbes .......... 106 16 

Ostrea tecticosta Gabb .................... 107 16 

Ostrea torosa . Morton .................... 117 

Ostren urtieosa Morton .................. 137 

Pnchyeardium bzcrlingtonense 

Whitfield ...................................... 

Panopea decisa Conrad .................. 

Paracyathus ? vaughani Weller .... 

Pnmnomia lineata ................... . 

Paranomia scrthra (Morton) ........ 

Parnsmllia balanophylloides ........... 

Pccten ............................................... 

Peeten argillensis Weller ................ 

Pecten bellisculptus (Conrad) .... 

Pecten burlingtonensis Gabb ........ 

Prcten cliffwoodensis Weller ........ 

Pecten conradi (Whitfield) .......... 

Pecten craticulus Morton .............. 

Pecten ( Neithea) quinquecostata 

Sowerhv .......................................... . . . 

Pecten parvus (Whitfield) ............ 132 22 

Pecten perlamellosus ...................... 129 23 

Pecten planieostatzcs, Whitfield .. 126 

Pecten quinquenarius .................... 131 23 

Pecten simplicii~s Conrad .............. 134 23 

Pecten tenuitestus Gabb ................ 126 23 

Pecten tenuitestus, Whitfield ......... 127 

Pecten venustus Morton ................ 133 23 

Pecten whitfieldi Weller ................ 127 22 

Pedalion ............................................ 267 

Penns Grove ................................... 23 

Periplomya elliptica ........................ 238 

Periplomya elliptica (Gabb) ........ 164 26. 46 

Periplomya truncata ...................... 238 

Periplomya truneata Whitfield .... 164 

Peronaeoderma georgiana Gabb .. 230 

Peronidella ........................................ 31 

Perrisonta protexta Conrad .......... 66 

Phelopteria dalli (Stephenson) ..... 102 42 

Pholadidea 2 cithara ...................... 259 

Pholadomya occidentalis Morton 158 26 

Pholadomya roemeri Whitfield .... 159 26 

Pholadomya undata Meelc & 

Hayden .......................................... 171 

Pholas cithara Morton .................. 259 39. 46 

Pholas cretacea Gabb ...................... 264 

Pholas ? lata Whitfield ..................... 163 

Pholas lorillardensis Richards ....... 261 39 

Pholas pectrosa Conrad ................ 260 39 

Phgllobrissus pusillus (Clark) 47 

.... 

Pinna ................................................... 267 45 

Pinna laqueata Conrad .................. 93 15 

Plaeuna scabra Morton ................... 149 

Placunanomia lineata .................... 149 

Plagiostoma echinatum Morton ... 140 

Plagiostoma erecta (Whitfield) ... 146 22 

Plagiostoma gregalis Morton ...... 139 

Plngiostoma pelagica Morton ...... 142 

Plicatula ferrata Stephenson ...... 139 42 

INDEX 

Page Plate 

Plicatula howelli Richards ............. 138 40. 42 

Plicatula mullicaensis Weller ........ 137 18 

Plicatula urticosa (Morton ) ........ 137 24 

Plicatula woodburyensis Weller .. 138 24 

Poricy Brook .................................... 24 

Potomac group ................................ 14 

Proorrsstdulus florealis (Morton) 48 

Protocardium jerseyensis Weller ... 214 33 

Ptcrin ? dalli Stephenson ............... 102 

Pteria laripes (Morton) ................ 101 18 

Pteria navicula Whitfield .............. 101 16. 18 

Pteria petrosa (Conrad) .............. 100 16 

Pulvinites argenteus Conrad ........ 104 18 

Pygurostomn geometricurn 

(Mortou) ...................................... 46 

Pygurus flowalis (Morton) ........... 48 

Pygurus geometricus (Morton) .. 46 

Rndula peLrgica ................................. 11% . 143 

Rndula rrticulata ............................ 144 

Rangia ? tenuidens .......................... 178 

Raritan formation .................... . 14 

Red Rank ................................. . ... 24. 26 

Red Bank formation ....................... 26 

Red Bank sand .................... . ...... 17 

Red Valley ..................................... 26 

Runnemede ....................................... 24. 25 

Srrngu:nolaria eretacensis Courad 222 

Sayrevillc ...................................... 21 

Scambula perplana Conrad .......... 192 31 

Schizo

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Tenea parilis (Conrad) 

Tenea pinguis (Conrad) 

Terebratella vanuzemi 

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