Cheapeake Beach, south (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Maryland (38.7° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Calvert Formation (Chesapeake Group), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: R. L. Collins and W. G. Lynn. 1936. Fossil Turtles from Maryland. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76(2):151-173 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 126602: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 09.04.2012

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Cheloniidae
"Chelonia marylandica n. sp." = Syllomus aegyptiacus
"Chelonia marylandica n. sp." = Syllomus aegyptiacus Lydekker 1899 sea turtle