UNCW Loc. Z-893 - Drumcliff [Drumcliff Mbr, Choptank Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Drumcliff Member (Choptank Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Drumcliff Member of the Choptank Formation, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Zone 17 (Shattuck, 1904) of the Choptank Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified lithology not reported

• LITHOLOGY: Not described in text. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimen.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Zullo

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: V. Zullo. REPOSITORY: University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).

Primary reference: V. A. Zullo. 1992. Revision of the balanid barnacle genus Concavus Newman, 1982, with the description of a new subfamily, two new genera, and eight new species. The Paleontological Society Memoir 27:1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160353: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquate nomenclature, but species resolution identifications.
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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Chesaconcavus chesapeakensis
Chesaconcavus chesapeakensis Pilsbry 1916 barnacle