Also known as Rose Croft Point

Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.2° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 74.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Rose Croft Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Middle Miocene (upper Serravallian), Windmill Point beds, St Marys, Zone 24. Samples take from the upper 0.8 m of the section. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Probably collected from 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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 51728: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005, edited by Mark Uhen

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