Zone 22/23 of Calvert Cliffs between Little Cove Point and Drum Point: Late Miocene, Maryland
collected by John Seyfried
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Ziphiidae
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Messapicetus sp.
Bianucci et al. 1992
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Maryland |
| Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 76.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.5° North, 74.6° West |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Late Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 11.63 - 5.333 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | St Marys | Member: | Little Cove Point |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: float specimen, believed to be from Zone 22 or 23 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty,sandy claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: clay, silt, and very fine sand | |
| Environment: | lagoonal |
| Geology comments: Inner bay, protected lagoonal, very shallow water, possibly estuarine | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collectors: | John Seyfried |
| Collection method comments: float specimen | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 73637 | ||
| Authorizer: | B. Beatty | Enterer: | B. Beatty |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-23 19:35:25 | Last modified: | 2014-12-15 16:39:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-23 19:35:25 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24695. | A. J. Fuller and S. J. Godfrey. 2007. A Late Miocene Ziphiid (Messapicetus sp.: Odontoceti: Cetacea) from the St. marys Formation of Calvert Cliffs, Maryland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(2):535-540 [B. Beatty/B. Beatty] |
Secondary references:
| 27984 | S. M. Kidwell. 1997. Anatomy of extremely thin marine sequences landward of a passive-margin hinge zone: Neogene Calvert Cliffs Succession, Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 67(2):322-340 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 32709 | L. W. Ward and G. W. Andrews. 2008. Stratigraphy of the Calvert, Choptank, and St. Marys Formations (Miocene) in the Chesapeake Bay Area, Maryland and Virginia. Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir 1-169 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |