Also known as Little Cove Point
Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Little Cove Point Member (St Marys Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Little Cove Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Little Cove Point beds, St Marys Formation, Zones 21-23.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; diatomaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected from bulk samples and individuals specimens. Collection of Zullo.
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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 51727: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Arossia bohaska n. sp. Kline 1997 barnacle
Arossia newmani Zullo 1992 barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
Chesapecten covepointensis Ward 1992 scallop | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam | |
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
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Florimetis biplicata Conrad 1834 tellin clam | |
Spisula subcuneata Conrad 1838 clam
Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam | |
Dosinia acetabulum, Mercenaria cuneata, Mercenaria tetrica, "Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis
Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Wagner 1839 venus clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Urosalpinx subrusticus d'Orbigny 1852 murex snail | |
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail | |
Busycon fusiforme whelk
Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk
Busycotypus rugosum Conrad 1843 whelk | |
Bulliopsis marylandica Conrad 1862 snail
Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta Conrad 1868 snail | |
Buccinofusus chesapeakensis Petuch 1988 snail | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella subvariabilis
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