Arundel Clay Facies, Potomac Group: Cretaceous, Maryland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus sp. Agassiz 1834
Reptilia
Dinosauria indet. (Owen 1842)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Maryland
Coordinates: 39.4° North, 77.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.5° North, 37.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Cretaceous
Key time interval:Cretaceous
Age range of interval:145.00000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Aptian age
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: claystone
Lithology description: Arundel Clay (Aptian)
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:124917
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Shalap
Created:2012-02-29 02:40:56 Last modified:2012-02-28 09:40:56
Access level:the public Released:2012-02-29 02:40:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

40462. T. R. Lipka. 1996. Recovery of new dinosaur and other fossils from the Early Cretaceous Arundel Clay facies (Potomac Group) of central Maryland, U.S.A. Special Publication - The Paleontological Society 8:241 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]