Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° 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)

• Unit A in Ward 1992 (Fig. 26), ~0.5 m of sand. Collection from Little Cove Point of St Marys Fm, at the base of the section, and underlies unit B of the Little Cove Point Mbr, St Marys Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59305: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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