Also known as Kenwood Beach
Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; brown, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. G. Marx and R. E. Fordyce. 2015. Baleen boom and bust: a synthesis of mysticete phylogeny, diversity and disparity. Royal Society Open Science 2:140434 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70835: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2007, edited by Evangelos Vlachos and Margot Nelson
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Procolpochelys grandaeva6 Leidy 1861 sea turtle Basicranium (USNM 186969) consisting of right quadrate, right opisthotic, parts of right and left parietals, supraoccipital, basioccipital, and left exoccipital, collected by D. B. Mackie
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"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon5
"Carcharodon megalodon" = Otodus megalodon5 Agassiz 1835 megalodon Also studied in Pimiento et al. 2010
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"Isocardia fraterna" = Glossus fraterna4
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