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Upper Campanian ammonites from the Mount Laurel Sand at Biggs Farm, Delaware

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

W. J. Kennedy  and
W. A. Cobban
W. J. Kennedy
Affiliation:
Geological Collections, University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, United Kingdom
W. A. Cobban
Affiliation:
qU.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Mail Stop 919, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225
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Abstract

The Mount Laurel Sand at Biggs Farm, Delaware, yielded a diverse ammonite fauna comprising Pachydiscus (Pachydiscus) sp., Placenticeras cf. P. placenta (DeKay, 1828), Placenticeras n. sp., Eulophoceras sp., Nostoceras (Nostoceras) draconis Stephenson, 1941, Didymoceras cheyennense (Meek and Hayden, 1856a), Anaklinoceras reflexum Stephenson, 1941, Anaklinoceras tenuicostatum n. sp., Oxybeloceras meekanum (Whitfield, 1877), Solenoceras annulifer Morton, 1841, Baculites ovatus Say, 1820, B. undatus Stephenson, 1941, Hoploscaphites vistulensis Błaszkiewicz, 1980, and Jeletzkytes compressus (Roemer, 1841). The last named two species occur in Europe and indicate an upper but not uppermost upper Campanian horizon. Several species also occur in the Western Interior and suggest correlation with the Didymoceras cheyennense zone and part of the Baculites compressus zone of the upper Campanian in that region.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 6 , November 1994 , pp. 1285 - 1305
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