ammonites
Stratford Bluffs, Zone 14-16 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Stratford Cliffs, Big Meadow

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 73.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; brown, yellow, sandy claystone

• relatively non-diverse mollusc assemblage, open-marine, shallow shelf
• no lithological description given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1965. A new whalebone whale from the Miocene Calvert Formation. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 247(1):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45508: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2004