Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Conoy Member (Choptank Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Formerly Calvert Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. B. Shattuck. 1904. Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text xxxiii-clv [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70847: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Wagner 1839 venus clam | |
Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella plebeia plebeia Ward 1992 turret shell |