Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.6° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Strontium dating indicates the age of bed 10 to be 16.2–15.8 Ma, or possibly somewhat older (16.4 Ma) [48, 49]. (Marx & Fordyce, 2015)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 168458: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.04.2015, edited by Margot Nelson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Brevirostrodelphis dividum True 1912 toothed whale | |
Xiphiacetus bossi Kellogg 1925 toothed whale | |
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