Also known as Stratford Cliffs, Big Meadow

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

• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 70.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

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

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