Where: Maryland (38.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 65.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Aquia Formation, Eocene (55.8 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• nearly perfect oval patch of crushing teeth

Collected by Mrs. Doris H. Blake in 1935; reposited in the USNM

• The specimen was collected by Mrs. Doris H. Blake in 1935 and turned over to me for examination through the courtesy of Dr. S. F. Blake and Mr. C. W. Gilmore. It is catalogued in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology of the United States National Museum as No. 13855.

Primary reference: G. S. Myers. 1936. A Third Record of the Albulid Fish Dixonina nemopiera Fowler, with Notes on an Albulid from the Eocene of Maryland. Copeia 1936(2):83-85 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 124191: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 07.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen