Where: Anne Arundel County, Maryland (38.7° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 72.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Fairhaven Member (Calvert Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Popes Creek Sand bed occurs within zone 3b of the Fairhaven member

Environment/lithology: marine; diatomaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. B. Shattuck. 1904. Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene Text xxxiii-clv [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70592: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 29.03.2007

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