Also known as B-545
Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 73.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Drumcliff Member (Choptank Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Drumcliff Mbr of the Choptank Fm, Chesapeake Grp. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From top of unit 3.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Kidwell in 1978; reposited in the YPM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: S.K. Kidwell, 1978. REPOSITORY: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University.
Primary reference: S. M. Kidwell. 1982. Stratigraphy, invertebrate taphonomy and depositional history of the Miocene Calvert and Choptank Formations, Atlantic Coastal Plain. Unpublished PhD thesis, Yale University 1-511 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79108: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma aphelium Dall 1892 top snail | |
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Crucibulum sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
"Crucibulum ? constrictum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum Conrad 1842 slipper shell | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, "Turritella variabilis" = Turritella (Torcula) variabilis
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
"Turritella variabilis" = Turritella (Torcula) variabilis Conrad 1830 turret shell | |
Ecphora sp. Conrad 1843 murex snail | |
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros, "Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Anadara staminea" = Dallarca staminea
"Anadara staminea" = Dallarca staminea Say 1832 clam | |
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens
"Chesapecten nefrens" = Chesapecten (Chesapecten) nefrens Ward and Blackwlder 1975 scallop | |
Isognomon maxillata Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
"Parvilucina crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata
"Parvilucina crenulatus" = Parvilucina crenulata Conrad 1840 clam | |
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis, Bicorbula idonea
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam
Bicorbula idonea Conrad 1833 clam | |
Aligena aequata Conrad 1843 aligena | |
? Pitar subnasuta venus clam
Macrocallista marylandica Conrad 1833 venus clam
Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam | |
Spisula subparilis, "Spisula subponderosa" = Mactrodesma subponderosa
Spisula subparilis Conrad 1841 clam
"Spisula subponderosa" = Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam | |
"Cerastoderma laqueatum" = Chesacardium laqueatum
"Cerastoderma laqueatum" = Chesacardium laqueatum Conrad 1830 cockle | |
Semele ? carinata Conrad 1830 clam | |
Astarte thisphila Glenn 1904 clam | |
"Eucrassatella turgidulus" = Marvacrassatella turgidula
"Eucrassatella turgidulus" = Marvacrassatella turgidula Conrad 1843 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus newtonensis Meyer and Aldrich 1886 tusk shell | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Thecostraca | |
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus
"Balanus concavus" = Concavus concavus Bronn 1831 barnacle |