Queen Tree Landing, Zones 14-16 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: St. Marys County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, brown, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone

• sand; silty, clayey, massive, olive-brown

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71641: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens Ward and Blackwlder 1975 scallop
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria sp. Schumacher 1817 quahog
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus marylandica Schoonover 1941 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora meganae Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail
subspecies meganae