Also known as Drum Point

Where: St Marys County, Maryland (38.3° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Little Cove Point Member (St Marys Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Drum Point, Chesapeake Bay; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Little Cove Point beds, St Marys Formation. Zone 21. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; diatomaceous claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected from bulk samples and individuals specimens.

Primary reference: D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51732: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005

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