Capital Beltway & Central Avenue (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Hampton Mall

Where: Prince Georges County, Maryland (38.9° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 58.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Aquia Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• top of chalky shell band

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. L. Olson. 1994. A giant Presbyornis (Aves: Anseriformes) and other birds from the Paleocene Aquia Formation of Maryland and Virginia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 107(3):429-435 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 109023: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.05.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
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Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
 Phaethontiformes - Prophaethontidae
? Prophaethon sp. Andrews 1899 bird