Where: Southampton County, Virginia (36.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 75.3° W)
When: Chesapeake Group, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Upper Miocene, Chesapeake Group, Eastover Formation (7.0–6.0 Ma) and St. Marys Formation (10.0–8.0 Ma).
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: S. J. Rahmat, I. A. Koretsky, J. E. Osborne and A. A. Alford. 2017. New Miocene Monachinae from the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland, USA). Vestnik zoologii 51(3):221-242 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 187943: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Terranectes magnus n. gen. n. sp., Terranectes parvus n. sp.
Terranectes magnus n. gen. n. sp. Rahmat et al. 2017 seal
Terranectes parvus n. sp. Rahmat et al. 2017 seal |