Seahorse Beach, north (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Little Cove Point Member (St Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• bed 22 or 23

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. J. Godfrey and L. G. Barnes. 2008. A new genus and species of late Miocene pontoporiid dolphin (Cetacea: Odontoceti) from the St. Marys Formation in Maryland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28(2):520-528 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 81588: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.06.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Pontoporiidae
Stenasodelphis russellae n. gen. n. sp.
Stenasodelphis russellae n. gen. n. sp. Godfrey and Barnes 2008 toothed whale