Church Point, east of, Zone 10-11 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; sandy claystone
• quiet water, soft bottom; variable to high amounts and diversity of molluscs; embayment
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
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 71813: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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Delphinidae indet. Gray 1821 dolphin | |