Locality 405 (Little Cove Point Mbr, St Marys Fm) (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Drum 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)

• Drum Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Little Cove Point beds, St Marys Formation. Zone 21. 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 Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 51733: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005

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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., Arossia newmani, Chesaconcavus cf. rossi, Chesaconcavus cf. santamaria
Arossia sp. Newman 1982 barnacle
Arossia newmani Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus cf. rossi Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus cf. santamaria Zullo 1992 barnacle