Locality 408 (Little Cove Point Mbr, St Marys Fm) (Miocene of the United States)

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

• Back-barrier and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sand) intervals

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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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

• Exhaustive for Cirripdia. Not complete with respect to molluscan fauna. Type material is reposited in USNM, ANSP, and University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Arossia bohaska n. sp. Kline 1997 barnacle
Arossia newmani Zullo 1992 barnacle
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten covepointensis Ward 1992 scallop
 Arcida - Arcidae
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Chesacardium laqueatum Conrad 1830 cockle
subspecies eschelmani
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
Florimetis biplicata Conrad 1834 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula subcuneata Conrad 1838 clam
Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam
subspecies thori
Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Wagner 1839 venus clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Urosalpinx subrusticus d'Orbigny 1852 murex snail
Ecphora gardnerae Wilson 1987 murex snail
subspecies germonae
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk
Busycotypus rugosum Conrad 1843 whelk
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Bulliopsis marylandica Conrad 1862 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Buccinofusus chesapeakensis Petuch 1988 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
subspecies plebeia
Turritella subvariabilis d'Orbigny 1852 turret shell
subspecies bohaski