Also known as Delaware Geological Survey locality Id11-a

Where: Kent County, Delaware (39.2° N, 75.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 71.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fairhaven Member (Calvert Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• said to be early Hemingfordian, lower Calvert; Shattuck zone not state in text, interpreted from de Verteuil and Norris (1996).

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•Formerly Cheswold Sands member, but lower Calvert is Fairhaven member. Bed 3b is Burdigalian in age, or Hemingfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; medium-grained, coarse, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• generically determinate NISP 101 (mammals); total said to be "nearly 200 identifiable specimens... 50-60 mammal teeth per 1000 kg of matrix" by Cutler 1998; material is mostly from "spoil piles" and not in situ

Primary reference: R. J. Emry and R. E. Eshelman. 1998. The early Hemingfordian (early Miocene) Pollack Farm local fauna; first Tertiary land mammals described from Delaware. Delaware Geological Survey Special Publication 21:153-173 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18579: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Austin Hendy, Mark Uhen, Jason Head and Evangelos Vlachos

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