Also known as Windmill Point
Where: Dorchester County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.3° N, 72.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Windmill Point Member (St Marys Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Windmill Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Windmill Point beds, St Marys Formation, Zone 24.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Probably collected from individuals specimens. Collection of Zullo
Primary reference: D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51722: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella subvariabilis
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Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta Conrad 1868 snail
Bulliopsis marylandica Conrad 1862 snail
Bulliopsis quadrata Conrad 1830 snail | |
Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk
Busycotypus rugosum Conrad 1843 whelk
Busycon fusiforme whelk | |
Buccinofusus parilis Conrad 1832 snail | |
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail | |
Conus deluvianus Green 1830 cone shell | |
Urosalpinx subrusticus d'Orbigny 1852 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte perplana Conrad 1840 clam | |
Florimetis biplicata Conrad 1834 tellin clam | |
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Leptomactra delumbis Conrad 1832 clam
Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam | |
Lirophora alevata, Dosinia acetabulum, Mercenaria tetrica, "Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis
Lirophora alevata venus clam
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Wagner 1839 venus clam | |
Glossus santamaria Ward 1992 clam | |
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster | |
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop | |
Dallarca idonea, "Rasia andrewsi" = Anadara (Rasia) andrewsi
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam
"Rasia andrewsi" = Anadara (Rasia) andrewsi Ward 1992 ark | |
Thecostraca | |
Chesaconcavus santamaria Zullo 1992 barnacle |