Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; brown, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. R. Barwick. 1939. Miocene porpoise (Delphinodon dividum) from southern Maryland. American Midland Natualist 22:154-159 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45506: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2004, edited by Margot Nelson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines6
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Mammalia | |
"Metaxytherium calvertense" = Metaxytherium crataegense6
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Eurhinodelphis sp.6, Schizodelphis barnesi4, "Eurhinodelphis vaughni n. sp." = Xiphiacetus bossi5, "Eurhinodelphis whitmorei n. sp." = Xiphiacetus cristatus5
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Priscodelphinus atropius6, "Delphinodon dividum" = Brevirostrodelphis dividum, "Miminiacetus pappus" = Liolithax pappus1
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon6
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon6 Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento and Balk
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