Also known as USGS Locality 26394
Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.7° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 72.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Fairhaven Member (Calvert Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• 10 feet thick bed. Hemingfordian NALMA
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, medium, gray, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60848: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 25.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pecten humphreysii Conrad 1842 scallop |