Title

Ancestral horseshoe crab (suborder Synziphosurina) from the Bloomsburg Red Beds (Upper Silurian) of Northwestern New Jersey

Authors

R. Metz, Kean University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Abstract

The first occurrence in New Jersey of an ancestral horseshoe crab (suborder Synziphosurina), has been identified in overbank flood and crevasse splay deposits of the Upper Silurian Bloomsburg Red Beds from the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. The monospecific presence of the ichnogenus Skolithos strongly suggests a brackish water origin for the synziphosauran-bearing strata.

Publication Title

Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences

First Page Number

227

Last Page Number

231

Recommended Citation

Metz, R., "Ancestral horseshoe crab (suborder Synziphosurina) from the Bloomsburg Red Beds (Upper Silurian) of Northwestern New Jersey" (2000). Kean Publications. 2778.
https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/keanpublications/2778