Fourteenth Street (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Ballard Street

Where: Richmond County, Virginia (37.5° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: C. E. Ray. 1976. Phoca wymani and other Tertiary seals (Mammalia: Phocidae) described from the eastern seaboard of North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 28:1-33 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57111: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Pisces
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"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
 Cetacea - Kentriodontidae
Kentriodon pernix Kellogg 1927 toothed whale
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocinae indet. Gray 1821 seal
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima Van Beneden 1876 seal
Monachinae indet. Trouessart 1897 seal