Table T12. Pollen and dinocyst occurrences.
Sample
number
Depth (ft)
Comments


Miocene or Holocene extant pollen types; poor samples
28406 30.0–30.2 Modern pollen; no fusain
28407 64.5–64.7 Modern pollen; poor sample
28408 103.0–103.2 Modern pollen; poor sample
28409
120.0–120.4
Modern pollen; no fusain
Barren Cretaceous lithotype
28410 1070.6–1070.8 Fusain; no palynomorphs
28411
1080.5–1080.7
Fusain; no palynomorphs
Zone VII; Magothy; Santonian
28412 1106.7–1106.9 Magothy
28413


1136.3–1136.5


Good sample, no staining makes it hard to see
Heidelbergipollis sp. A
Trudopollis sp. B
Zone V; lower Magothy; South Amboy Fire Clay
28414
1183.2–1183.4
Poor sample; ?Zone V SAFC
Poropollenites sp. Doyle SAFC
28415


1241.2–1241.4


SAFC; Zone 5
Complexipollis sp. E
Complexipollis sp. B
Poropollenites sp. as in Doyle
28416 1263.6–1263.8 Barren; fusain abundant; almost no palynomorphs
28417
1284.5–1284.7
Barren
Zone IV; Raritan–Woodbridge; upper Cenomanian
28418

1317.0–1317.2

Dinoflagellate fragment (marine)
Atlantopollis sp. as in Woodbridge Clay member
Wilsonisporites woodbridgei
28419
1317.2–1317.4
Raritan–Woodbridge age
Complexipollis sp. O; Raritan Formation
28420 1360.1–1360.3 Barren; very poor, mostly fusain
28421






1410.7–1410.9






Brackish water environment
Microforaminifer linings of trochoid arenaceous types
Complexipollis sp. P; index form for Raritan
Momipites sp.; a triporate not known in Zone III
Clavatipollenites sp.
Ajatipollenites sp. A
Tricolpites vulgaris
Fragment of a dinocyst
Boundary between Zones III and IV is uncertain because Sample 28422 is almost barren.


Zone III; lower Cenomanian; upper Patapsco
28422 1511.0–1511.2 One pollen grain; Zone III; fusain abundant
28423

1541.3–1541.5

Good sample; Zone III; upper Patapsco
Tricolpites vulgaris
Tricolporites subtlus
28424 1560.3–1560.5 No diagnostic pollen; fusain abundant

Note: All samples terrestrial except Raritan–Woodbridge.