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 B in Ward 1992 (Fig. 26), ~0.1 m of shell hash. Collection from Little Cove Point of St Marys Fm, overlying Unit A of the Little Cove Point, and underlies unit C of the Talbot Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal 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 59306: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
| |
Bivalvia | |
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Mercenaria subcuneata quahog | |
"Spisula" subcuneata Conrad 1838 clam | |
Chesacardium sp. Ward 1992 cockle | |
Chesapecten covepointensis Ward 1992 scallop | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam |