PBDB Collection

Stratford Bluffs, Zone 14-16 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Stratford Cliffs, Big Meadow

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 74.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; brown, yellow, sandy claystone

• relatively non-diverse mollusc assemblage, open-marine, shallow shelf, quiet water, soft bottom; embayment, short-term eustatic transgression events, long-term regression trend

• no lithological description given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1965. A new whalebone whale from the Miocene Calvert Formation. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 247(1):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45508: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Carnivora - Phocidae	"Leptophoca cf. proxima" = Leptophoca proxima², "Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima⁴ "Leptophoca cf. proxima" = Leptophoca proxima² Van Beneden 1876 seal "Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima⁴ Van Beneden 1876 seal
Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae	"Eurhinodelphis ashbyi n. sp." = Xiphiacetus cristatus⁵ "Eurhinodelphis ashbyi n. sp." = Xiphiacetus cristatus⁵ Du Bus 1872 toothed whale
Cetacea - Kentriodontidae	Delphinodon sp.⁶, cf. Kentriodon sp.⁶ Delphinodon sp.⁶ Leidy 1869 toothed whale cf. Kentriodon sp.⁶ Kellogg 1927 toothed whale
Cetacea -	"Aglaocetus patulus n. sp." = Atlanticetus patulus³, Pelocetus calvertensis "Aglaocetus patulus n. sp." = Atlanticetus patulus³ Kellogg 1968 whale Pelocetus calvertensis Kellogg 1965 whale
Cetacea - Cetotheriidae	Cetotheriidae indet.⁶ Cetotheriidae indet.⁶ Brandt 1872 whale
Aves
Charadriiformes - Alcoidae	Miocepphus mcclungi⁷ Miocepphus mcclungi⁷ Wetmore 1940 auk
Actinopteri
Acanthomorphata - Malacanthidae	Lopholatilus ereborensis¹ Lopholatilus ereborensis¹ Carnevale and Godfrey 2014

¹Carnevale and Godfrey 2014; ²Dewaele et al. 2017; ³Kellogg 1968; ⁴Koretsky 2001; ⁵Myrick 1979; ⁶Uhen 2007; ⁷Wijnker and Olson 2009