Randle Cliff Beach, south Zone 14-15 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.7° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Zone 14 or 15

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

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

• relatively non-diverse mollusc assemblage, open-marine, shallow shelf

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: C. L. Gazin and R. L. Collins. 1950. Remains of land mammals from the Miocene of the Miocene of the Chesapeake Bay Region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 116(2):1-21 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 49945: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion calvertensis1 Gibson 1983
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
? Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Orycterocetus crocodilinus2 Cope 1867 sperm whale
presumably Zone 11
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Cynorca proterva Cope 1867 peccary
 Carnivora - Phocidae
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima3
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima3 Van Beneden 1876 seal