Patuxent River - end of Landing Road, above Nottingham (Miocene of the United States)

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

• Sand, yellowish-gray (5 Y 8/1), indurated; fine to medium

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
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten humphreysii Conrad 1842 scallop