Also known as Little Cove Point
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)
• Little Cove Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Little Cove Point beds, St Marys Formation, Zones 21-23.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; diatomaceous claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected from bulk samples and individuals specimens. Collection of Zullo.
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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 51727: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Spisula subcuneata Conrad 1838 clam
Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam | |
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis, Mercenaria tetrica, Mercenaria cuneata, Dosinia acetabulum
"Clementia inoceriformis" = Clementia (Clementia) inoceriformis Wagner 1839 venus clam
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog
Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog | |
Florimetis biplicata Conrad 1834 tellin clam | |
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Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam | |
Chesapecten covepointensis Ward 1992 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella subvariabilis
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Urosalpinx subrusticus d'Orbigny 1852 murex snail | |
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail | |
Buccinofusus chesapeakensis, Busycon fusiforme, Busycotypus coronatum, Busycotypus rugosum, Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta, Bulliopsis marylandica
Buccinofusus chesapeakensis Petuch 1988 true whelk
Busycon fusiforme whelk
Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk
Busycotypus rugosum Conrad 1843 whelk
Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta Conrad 1868 true whelk
Bulliopsis marylandica Conrad 1862 true whelk | |
Thecostraca | |
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Arossia newmani Zullo 1992 barnacle
Arossia bohaska n. sp. Kline 1997 barnacle |