Haulover Inlet, Zone 17-18 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Drumcliff Member (Choptank Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, brown, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone

• Mollusk-dense pale yellow-brown to pale orange well-sorted sand; sub-tropical to temperate, in a current-swept channel-like basin. Overlain by a finer-grained sand and silt of deeper, stiller, possibly inner-bay waters, shallow neritic open-shelf marine.
• sand; fine, osft, very shelly, somewhat weathered, grayish yellow

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 71818: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Thinocetus arthritus Kellogg 1969 whale