Drum Point: Tortonian, Maryland
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Cetotheriidae
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Cetotherium parvum
Trouessart 1898
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Platanistidae
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Zarhachis tysonii n. sp.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Paracetus mediatlanticus n. sp.
Cope 1895
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Cope 1895 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Aulophyseter mediatlanticus | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Priscodelphinus uraeus
(Cope 1869)
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1 specimen | ||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland | County: | Calvert |
| Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 76.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.5° North, 74.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Tortonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tortonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 7.24600 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | St Marys |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | offshore shelf |
| Geology comments: foreshore, muddy, shallow shelf | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Patuxent River mouth | ||
| Database number: | 55395 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-10-14 10:27:22 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:34:51 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2006-01-14 10:27:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15442. | E. C. Case. 1904. Systematic Paleontology: Mammalia. Maryland Geological Survey Miocene: Text 1-58 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 12331 | E. D. Cope. 1895. Fourth contribution to the marine fauna of the Miocene Period of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosphical Society 34:135-155 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
| 14893 | E. Kazár. 2002. Revised phylogeny of the Physeteridae (Mammalia: Cetacea) in light of Placoziphius Van Beneden, 1869 and Aulophyseter Kellogg, 1927. Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 72:151-170 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |