Chesapeake Bay (Choptank): Barstovian, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops niobrarensis
Colbert 1935
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| recombined as Colbertchoerus niobrarensis | ||||||||||
| Drum Cliff, bed 17; "Hesperhys" of Tedford and Hunter 1984 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctus wangi n. sp.
Jasinski and Wallace 2015
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Jasinski and Wallace 2015 | |||||||||
| USNM 534040 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Gomphotherium cf. calvertensis
Gazin and Collins 1950
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= Gomphotherium cf. obscurum
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Calvert |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 76.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 73.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Choptank |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Regional section: | Shattuck | Regional bed: | 17 |
| Regional order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:includes beds 17 to 19: Wright and Eshelman 1987 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18519 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-05-14 17:38:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3383. | R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 59151 | S. E. Jasinski and S. C. Wallace. 2015. A Borophagine canid (Carnivora: Canidae: Borophaginae) from the middle Miocene Chesapeake Group of eastern North America. Journal of Paleontology 89(6):1082-1088 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 3776 | D. B. Wright and R. E. Eshelman. 1987. Miocene Tayassuidae (Mammalia) From the Chesapeake Group of the Mid-Atlantic Coast and their Bearing on Marine-nonmarine correlation. Journal of Paleontology 61(3):604-618 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |