Chesapeake Bay (Middle Calvert) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed 12

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18517: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
"Prosthennops xiphodonticus" = Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus
"Prosthennops xiphodonticus" = Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus Barbour 1925 peccary