Also known as Scientists Cliffs

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Scientists Cliffs; Middle Miocene, Calvert and Choptank Formations, Zones 14-17. Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying,

• Collected from bulk samples and individuals specimens.

Primary reference: D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51716: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Margaret Shalap

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