Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.6° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 72.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• late early Barstovian, Zone 3-6: changed to 4-6 because Plum Point Member doesn't include zone 3

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; 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 57786: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.01.2006

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