Point no Point (Miocene of the United States)
Where: St. Mary's County, Maryland (38.1° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 74.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: St Marys Formation (Chesapeake Group), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
• unclear what zone this is from
Environment/lithology: foreshore; silty, sandy claystone
• foreshore, muddy, shallow shelf
• clay, silt, and very fine to fine sand
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1904. Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text 1-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70865: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Mammalia | |
Siphonocetus clarkianus Cope 1895 whale |