Also known as Maryland Loc. 16

Where: St. Mary's County, Maryland (38.1° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 76.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Talbot Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Talbot Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon (Rasmussen and Slaughter 1955, 1957), Pleistocene (Richards 1962). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: The bluff rises 15 feet above the beach and is highly fossiliferous.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Shattock (1906), Smith (1920), Richards (1936), Blake (1955). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66721: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.10.2006, edited by Samantha Yost

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