Wakefield, west, Zone 12-13 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (37.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 73.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandy claystone

• sparse molluscs, low in diversity; subtropical environment in embayment and dry onshore; area not far from shore

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. D. Uhen. 2007. USNM Chesapeake Group Cetacean Collection Data. [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71799: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Physeteridae
Orycterocetus crocodilinus n. sp. Cope 1867 sperm whale
 Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
"Eurhinodelphis bossi" = Xiphiacetus bossi, Eurhinodelphis sp.
"Eurhinodelphis bossi" = Xiphiacetus bossi Kellogg 1925 toothed whale
Eurhinodelphis sp. Van Beneden and Gervais 1880 toothed whale
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Malacanthidae
Lopholatilus sp. Goode and Bean 1879