Portobello Point, Zones 22-23 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: St. Marys County, Maryland (38.2° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 74.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Little Cove Point Member (Saint Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; argillaceous, silty sandstone
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71635: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
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Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta Conrad 1868 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Mercenaria cuneata Conrad 1869 quahog | |
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Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |