Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• early late Barstovian, Zone 12
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: A. C. Myrick. 1979. Variation, taphonomy, and adaptation of the Rhabdosteidae (=Eurhinodelphidae) (Odontoceti, Mammalia) from the Calvert Formation of Maryland and Virginia. University of California, Los Angeles 1-411 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 57785: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Schizodelphis sulcatus Gervais 1853 toothed whale
Schizodelphis barnesi Myrick 1979 toothed whale
"Eurhinodelphis morrisi n. sp." = Xiphiacetus bossi Kellogg 1925 toothed whale |