Federalsburg, Caroline Co. - Pamlico Fm (Pleistocene): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Maryland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Brachidontes recurvus (Rafinesque 1820)
recombined as Ischadium recurvum
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin 1791)
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara transversa (Say 1822)
recombined as Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia lateralis (Say 1822)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus 1758)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura caudata (Say 1822)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Mangilia cerina (Kurtz and Stimpson 1851)
recombined as Kurtziella cerina
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius obsoletus (Say 1822)
recombined as Ilyanassa obsoleta
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Columbella (Astyris) lunata (Say 1826)
recombined as Astyris lunata
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Maryland County:Caroline
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 75.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 75.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:18 feet
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pamlico
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Pamlico Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon-Wisconsin (MacClintock and Richards 1936), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Shells up to an elevation of 18 ft
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: No detailed lithologic data reported in text. Cape May Formation contains sands and clays, hence siliciclastic. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be unlithified given age and figured specimens in Richards (1962).
Environment:marine indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: No specific environment provided in text for individual collection.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Shattock (1906), Smith (1920), Richards (1936), Blake (1955). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoratative publication, and somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments and list synonymies.
Metadata
Also known as: Maryland Loc. 2
Database number:66707
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-10-12 18:54:21 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:group members Released:2007-10-12 18:54:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
18974. H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

19011 H. G. Richards. 1936. Fauna of the Pleistocene Pamlico Formation of the southern Atlantic coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 47:1611-1656 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]