Point no Point: Tortonian, Maryland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea
Siphonocetus clarkianus Cope 1895
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Siphonocetes
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Maryland County:St. Mary's
Coordinates: 38.1° North, 76.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.3° North, 74.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Tortonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Tortonian
Age range of interval:11.62000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chesapeake Formation:St Marys
Regional section:Shattuck Regional bed:22-24
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: unclear what zone this is from
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: silty,sandy claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: clay, silt, and very fine to fine sand
Environment:foreshore
Geology comments: foreshore, muddy, shallow shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:70865
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-04-10 11:28:49 Last modified:2017-02-26 16:35:50
Access level:database members Released:2007-07-10 11:28:49
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15442. E. C. Case. 1904. Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text 1-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

33214 T. G. Gibson. 1962. Revision of the Turridae of the Miocene St. Mary's Formation of Maryland. Journal of Paleontology 36(2):225-246 [M. Uhen/S. Strother]
27984 S. M. Kidwell. 1997. Anatomy of extremely thin marine sequences landward of a passive-margin hinge zone: Neogene Calvert Cliffs Succession, Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 67(2):322-340 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]