Also known as B-556

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.5° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Boston Cliffs Mbr of the Choptank Fm, Chesapeake Grp. AGE: Middle Miocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From base of unit 10.

• 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 Unpublished PhD thesis, Yale University 1-511 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details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 79112: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.02.2008

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