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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pisces | |
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Mammalia | |
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
Kentriodon pernix Kellogg 1927 toothed whale | |
Phocinae indet. Gray 1821 seal
"Leptophoca lenis" = Leptophoca proxima Van Beneden 1876 seal
Monachinae indet. Trouessart 1897 seal |