Locality 410 (Little Cove Point Mbr, St Marys Fm) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Chesapeake Ranch Club

Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Little Cove Point Member (St Marys Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Chesapeake Ranch Club; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Little Cove Point beds, St Marys Formation, Zones 21-23. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; diatomaceous claystone

• Back-barrier and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sand) intervals

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected from bulk samples and individuals 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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 51717: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Mark Uhen

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.
Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Arossia cummembrana n. sp. Kline 1997 barnacle
Arossia cf. newmani Zullo 1992 barnacle
Arossia bohaska n. sp. Kline 1997 barnacle
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Alca cf. torda Linnaeus 1758 razorbill