Locality 403 (Boston Cliffs Mbr, Choptank Fm) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Camp Conoy

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Camp Conoy; Middle and Upper Miocene (Serravallian), St Leonard and Boston Cliffs Members, Zones 18(?)-19, Choptank Fm. Samples taken from lower 1.6 m of section.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, medium-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• Open shelf conditions created channel deposits of clean, medium-size sand, and allowed for abundant growth of molluscan fauna and subsequent cirriped development.
• Unconsolidated fossiliferous medium sand.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected from individual specimens.

Primary reference: D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51715: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Cirripdia. Not complete with respect to molluscan fauna. Type material is reposited in USNM, ANSP, and University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Arossia sp., Chesaconcavus sp., Chesaconcavus cf. rossi, Chesaconcavus aff. santamaria, Chesaconcavus myosulcatus, Chesaconcavus proteus
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Chesaconcavus sp. Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus cf. rossi Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus aff. santamaria Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus myosulcatus Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus proteus Conrad 1834 barnacle
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten sp.
Chesapecten sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1975 scallop