Also known as YPM-4

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.6° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Plum Point Mbr of the Calvert Fm, Chesapeake Grp. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: YPM. FIDELITY: Moderate ecologic fidelity, unsure if this true bulk sample.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69024: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2007

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