Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drumcliff Member (Choptank Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• Formerly Calvert Formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; green, blue, sandy 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 70844: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella plebeia plebeia Ward 1992 turret shell | |
Ecphora meganae meganae Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens Ward and Blackwlder 1975 scallop | |
Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
Dallarca elnia Glenn 1904 clam | |
Panopea americana Conrad 1838 clam
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Bicorbula idonea Conrad 1833 clam | |
Timothynus subvexa Conrad 1833 clam | |
Glossus marylandica Schoonover 1941 clam | |
Mercenaria cuneata, Dosinia acetabulum blackwelderi, "Pleiorytis calvertensis" = Petricola (Petricolaria) calvertensis
Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog
Dosinia acetabulum blackwelderi Ward 1992 venus clam
"Pleiorytis calvertensis" = Petricola (Petricolaria) calvertensis Dall 1900 venus clam | |
Chesacardium laqueatum blackwelderi Ward 1992 cockle | |
Florimetis biplicata Conrad 1834 tellin clam | |
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam | |
Marvacrassatella turgidula Conrad 1843 clam | |
Astarte thisphila Glenn 1904 clam |