Pope's Creek south, Bed 2: Burdigalian, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| sp. A | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Charles |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 77.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 73.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Burdigalian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 20.44 - 15.98 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Calvert | Member: | Fairhaven |
| Local section: | Shattuck | Local bed: | 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Zone 2 falls within Fairhaven member | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17790 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen, J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-03-03 05:44:14 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3776. | D. B. Wright and R. E. Eshelman. 1987. Miocene Tayassuidae (Mammalia) From the Chesapeake Group of the Mid-Atlantic Coast and their Bearing on Marine-nonmarine correlation. Journal of Paleontology 61(3):604-618 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 1345 | M. R. Dawson. 1990. in Canada's Missing Dimension [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |