Tar Bay (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Virginia (37.3° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Formation (Chesapeake Group), Burdigalian to Burdigalian (20.4 - 11.6 Ma)

• in the argillaceous beds of the lower part of the Calvert formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, argillaceous lithology not reported

• in the argillaceous beds of the lower part of the Calvert formation

Size class: macrofossils

• well-preserved tooth of Physeter vetus and rostrum from Istiophorus

Primary reference: E. Berry. 1917. A sail fish from the Virginia Miocene. American Journal of Science 43(258):461-464 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105548: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 22.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• added by Carrie Cross BIO 334
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Physeter vetus Leidy 1869 sperm whale
Actinopteri
 Istiophoriformes - Istiophoridae
Istiophorus sp. Lacépède 1802