Dares Wharf, north of, Zone 11 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Calvert County, Maryland (38.6° N, 76.5° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 40.2° N, 69.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• Shattuck's zone 11, well above the wide shell stratum (Shattuck's zone 10)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; green, sandy claystone

• quiet water, soft bottom; variable to high amounts and diversity of molluscs; embayment, short-term eustatic transgression events, long-term regression trend
• no lithological description given

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1924. Description of a new genus and species of whalebone whale from the Calvert Cliffs, Maryland. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 63(15):1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45498: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.10.2004

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea -
Parietobalaena palmeri n. gen. n. sp.
Parietobalaena palmeri n. gen. n. sp. Kellogg 1924 whale
 Cetacea - Eurhinodelphinidae
"Eurhinodelphis bossi" = Xiphiacetus bossi
"Eurhinodelphis bossi" = Xiphiacetus bossi Kellogg 1925 toothed whale
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
"Metaxytherium calvertense" = Metaxytherium crataegense
"Metaxytherium calvertense" = Metaxytherium crataegense Simpson 1932 dugong