Windmill Point, Zones 22-23 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Little Cove Point Member (St Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 10

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; silty sandstone

• sand, silty, very fine

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Probably collected from individuals specimens. Collection of Zullo

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71631: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Cirripdia. Not complete with respect to molluscan fauna. Type material is reposited in USNM, ANSP, and University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
Cancer zahrae
Cancer zahrae Bahman et al. 2020 crab
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
subspecies plebeia
 Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria cuneata
Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea goldfussii
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam