Kirkwood Formation
228 distinct taxa, from 614 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name.
The Paleobiology Database files this name in 3 countries. That can be one body of rock crossing a border, or two rocks that happen to share a name. The database does not say which, so nothing below is added across them.
New Jersey · US
186 taxa · 540 fossils · 23–5.3 MyaMembers recorded: Shiloh Marl, Alloway Clay, Asbury Park, lower, Shiloh marl.
Macrostrat dates this rock 23–7.2 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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17 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Chesapecten madisonius
- Turritella cumberlandia
- Mercenaria mercenaria
- Astarte distans
- Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta
- Nucula (Nucula) proxima
- Marvacrassatella melina
- Neverita duplicatus
- Parvilucina crenulata
- Corbula inaequalis
- Odontoceti
- Turritella aequistriata
- Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata
- Isognomon maxillata
- Mactra clathrodon
- Cyclocardia granulata
- Dallarca subrostrata
- Glycymeris parilis
- Balanus
- Carditamera arata
- Chesacardium craticuloides
- Crassinella
- Mariacolpus plebeia
- Mitrella
- Crepidula fornicata
- Dosinia acetabulum
- Ensis directus
- Euspira heros
- Lunatia hemicrypta
- Mulinia lateralis
- Acanthodesia
- Astarte perplana
- Bicorbula idonea
- Crassostrea virginica
- Leptomactra delumbis
- Murexiella cumberlandiana
- Mya producta
- Mytilus
- Pecten humphreysii woolmani
- Polinices
The 40 most often recorded, of 186.
Eastern Cape, Western Cape · ZA
42 taxa · 73 fossils · 149–126 MyaFiled under the Uitenhage Group. Members recorded: Uppermost.
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11 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Cladophlebis
- Zamites
- Pseudoctenis
- Araucaria
- Dinosauria
- Onychiopsis
- Brachiosauridae
- Diplodocinae
- Eusauropoda
- Podocarpus
- Pteridopsida
- Sphenopteris
- Theropoda
- Titanosauriformes
- Allosauroidea
- Bivalvia
- Carnosauria
- Crocodylia
- Dicraeosaurinae
- Dictyozamites
- Gastropoda
- Iguanodontidae
- Iyuku raathi
- Lepisosteidae
- Macronaria
- Marchantites
- Mesoeucrocodylia
- Nqwebasaurus thwazi
- Opisthias
- Ornithischia
- Ostracoda
- Paranthodon africanus
- Reptilia
- Ricciopsis
- Sauropoda
- Sphenodontia
- Sphenodontidae
- Squamata
- Taeniopteris
- Teleostei
The 40 most often recorded, of 42.
Recorded under country code O6
1 taxa · 1 fossils · 143–133 MyaFiled under the Uitenhage Group.
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1 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.