Wakefield, west, Zone 12-13: Langhian, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Malacanthidae
Lopholatilus sp. Goode and Bean 1879
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
Eurhinodelphis bossi Kellogg 1925
1 specimen
recombined as Xiphiacetus bossi
Eurhinodelphis sp. Van Beneden and Gervais 1880
Mammalia - Cetacea - Physeteridae
Orycterocetus crocodilinus n. sp. Cope 1867
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Westmoreland
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 77.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 73.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Langhian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
Key time interval:Langhian
Age range of interval:15.98000 - 13.82000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chesapeake Formation:Calvert Member:Plum Point
Regional section:Shattuck Regional bed:12-13
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:estuary/bay
Geology comments: sparse molluscs, low in diversity; subtropical environment in embayment and dry onshore; area not far from shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:71799
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:Z. Tieman Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-05-10 12:25:06 Last modified:2010-07-05 21:06:22
Access level:the public Released:2007-05-10 12:25:06
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24251. M. D. Uhen. 2007. USNM Chesapeake Group Cetacean Collection Data. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

32709 L. W. Ward and G. W. Andrews. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Calvert, Choptank, and St. Marys Formations (Miocene) in the Chesapeake Bay Area, Maryland and Virginia. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 1-169 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]