ammonites
PRI Loc. 95 (sample 28, replicate A) - Little Cove Point Mbr, St Mary's Fm (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.4° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Little Cove Point Mbr of St Mary's Fm, Chesapeake Group. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, restricted/sheltered, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coase sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector. REPOSITORY: PRI. FIDELITY: Moderate ecologic fidelity.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69017: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.02.2007

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