Also known as Westmoreland State Park

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Peritresius virginianus type specimen is from "about four feet above the beach level" and the other fossils are from "about seven feet" above it. Author lists this cliff as having exposures of Calvert, Choptank and St. Mary's Formations

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; diatomaceous, gray, blue claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. T. Berry, W. G. Lynn in 1935; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. T. Berry. 1937. More complete remains of a chelonian, Syllomus crispatus Cope, from the Miocene of Virginia. American Museum Novitates 953:1-19 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28368: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 10.02.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

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