Popes Creek Eocene (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Charles County, Maryland (38.6° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 65.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Woodstock Member (Nanjemoy Formation), Eocene (55.8 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: S.F. Blake. 1941. Note on a vertebra of Palaeophis from the Eocene of Maryland. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 31(12):501-503 [J. Head/J. Head] more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55255: authorized by Jason Head, entered by Jason Head on 03.10.2005, edited by Mark Uhen