Severn Formation: Cretaceous, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Scaphitidae
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Jeletzkytes criptonodosus
Riccardi 1983
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Discoscaphites conradi
(Morton 1834)
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Baculitidae
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Baculites elisasi
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Baculites baculus
Meek and Hayden 1861
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Prince George's |
| Coordinates: | 38.0° North, 76.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.9° North, 36.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1-8 |
| Key time interval: | Cretaceous |
| Age range of interval: | 145.00000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Severn |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty sandstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | all macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 125141 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | ||
| Created: | 2012-03-05 14:40:23 | Last modified: | 2014-12-04 10:13:28 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-03-05 14:40:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 40602. | M. R. Ross and D. E. Fastovsky. 2006. Trans-Atlantic correlations of Upper Cretaceous marine sediments; the Mid-Atlantic (USA) and Maastricht (Netherlands) regions. Northeastern Geology and Environmental Sciences 28(1):34-44 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] |