Mason Mill Pond, Zone 3b (Miocene of the United States)
Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 73.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Fairhaven Member (Calvert Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• Zone 3b (bed D), Hemingfordian NALMA
Environment/lithology: marine; white, argillaceous sandstone
• white to pinkish clayey sand
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. C. Dooley. 2005. A new species of Squalodon (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the Middle Miocene of Virginia. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 8:1-43 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57953: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.01.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
Squalodon whitmorei n. sp.
Squalodon whitmorei n. sp. Dooley 2005 toothed whale | |