Parker Creek, north, Zone 12 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as south of Dares Wharf

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; brown, sandy claystone

• sparse molluscs, low in diversity; subtropical environment in embayment and dry onshore; area not far from shore, bay, short-term eustatic transgression events, long-term regression trend
• brownish sandy clay

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. B. Shattuck. 1904. Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text xxxiii-clv [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 70823: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2007, edited by Margot Nelson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail
var. umbilicata
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Cytherea staminea" = Melosia staminea, "Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria
"Cytherea staminea" = Melosia staminea Conrad 1838 venus clam
"Venus mercenaria" = Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog
Chondrichthyes
 Carcharhiniformes - Hemigaleidae
Hemipristis serra5 Agassiz 1835 ground shark
 Lamniformes - Alopiidae
Alopias palatasi n. sp.3 Kent 2018 thresher shark
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Platanistidae
Pomatodelphis sp.2, "Schizodelphis crassangulum" = Zarhachis crassangulum5
Pomatodelphis sp.2 Allen 1921 toothed whale
"Schizodelphis crassangulum" = Zarhachis crassangulum5 Case 1904 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Schizodelphis morckhoviensis2 Du Bus 1872 toothed whale
Eurhinodelphis sp.5 Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 toothed whale
 Cetacea -
Parietobalaena palmeri5 Kellogg 1924 whale
 Carnivora - Phocidae
? Leptophoca sp.5, "Leptophoca cf. proxima" = Leptophoca proxima1, "Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima4
? Leptophoca sp.5 True 1906 seal
"Leptophoca cf. proxima" = Leptophoca proxima1 Van Beneden 1876 seal
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima4 Van Beneden 1876 seal
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Miocepphus mcclungi6 Wetmore 1940 auk