Holland Cliff, Zone 10 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Holland Cliffs

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.6° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 72.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Strontium dating indicates the age of bed 10 to be 16.2–15.8 Ma, or possibly somewhat older (16.4 Ma) [48, 49]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; 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

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. D. Uhen. 2007. USNM Chesapeake Group Cetacean Collection Data. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71924: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.05.2007

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Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Parietobalaena palmeri
Parietobalaena palmeri Kellogg 1924 whale