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Howell, Benjamin Franklin. (1948). New records and descriptions of Upper Cretaceous and Eocene serpulid worms from New Jersey. Notulae Naturae. 202: 1-7.
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Howell, Benjamin Franklin
1948
New records and descriptions of Upper Cretaceous and Eocene serpulid worms from New Jersey
Notulae Naturae
202: 1-7
Publication
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Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB
Kristian Fauchald's Polychaeta DB
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In 1943 the writer first reported Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson from Upper Cretaceous rocks of New Jersey. His record was based on a specimen in the paleontological collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (A.N.S.P. 15085), the original label of which did not state the formation or locality from which the fossil came; but he expressed the opinion that it had probably been collected from the Woodbury Formation. He is now able to report the discovery of three examples of what appears to be a new subspecies of this H. walkerensis in the Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation at Maple Shade, New Jersey, a formation that lies immediately beneath the Woodbury Formation.
The known specimens of this new subspecies from the Merchantville Formation are all tube fillings with none of the tube, itself, preserved. They resemble in form the filling of the tube thought to have come from the Woodbury Formation and to be referable to Hamulus walkerensis that has been referred to above; but they are only one-half to two-thirds the size of that tube. They probably represent an ancestor of H. walkerensis, and they are described as such herewith.
In 1943 the writer first reported Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson from Upper Cretaceous rocks of New Jersey. His record was based on a specimen in the paleontological collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (A.N.S.P. 15085), the original label of which did not state the formation or locality from which the fossil came; but he expressed the opinion that it had probably been collected from the Woodbury Formation. He is now able to report the discovery of three examples of what appears to be a new subspecies of this H. walkerensis in the Upper Cretaceous Merchantville Formation at Maple Shade, New Jersey, a formation that lies immediately beneath the Woodbury Formation.
The known specimens of this new subspecies from the Merchantville Formation are all tube fillings with none of the tube, itself, preserved. They resemble in form the filling of the tube thought to have come from the Woodbury Formation and to be referable to Hamulus walkerensis that has been referred to above; but they are only one-half to two-thirds the size of that tube. They probably represent an ancestor of H. walkerensis, and they are described as such herewith.
America, North
Systematics, Taxonomy
Hamulus walkerensis praecursor Howell, 1948 † (original description)
Hydroides primitiva Howell, 1948 † (original description)
Protula vincentownensis Howell, 1948 † (original description)
Hydroides primitiva Howell, 1948 † (original description)
Protula vincentownensis Howell, 1948 † (original description)
