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
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•Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.
Environment/lithology: foreshore; brown, yellow, sandy claystone
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 | |
Nonion calvertensis1 Gibson 1983 | |
Mammalia | |
? Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros | |
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Cynorca proterva Cope 1867 peccary | |
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima3
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