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Chesapecten, a New Genus of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the Miocene and Pliocene of Eastern North America
Chesapecten, a New Genus of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) From the Miocene and Pliocene of Eastern North America GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 861 Chesapecten) a New Genus of Pectinidae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) From the Miocene and Pliocene of Eastern North America By LAUCK W. WARD and BLAKE W. BLACKWELDER GEOLOGIC.AL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 861 A study of a stratigraphically important group of Pectinidae with recognition of the earliest described and figured Anzerican fossil UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON 1975 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ROGERS C. B. MORTON, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY V. E. McKelvey, Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ward, Lauck W Chesapecten, a new genus of Pectinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from the Miocene and Pliocene of eastern North America. (Geological Survey professional paper ; 861) Includes bibliography and index. Supt. of Docs. no.: I 19.16:861 1. Chesapecten. 2. Paleontology-Tertiary. 3. Paleontology-North America. I. Blackwelder, Blake W., joint author. II. Title III. Series: United States. Geological Survey. Professional paper : 861. QE812.P4W37 564'.11 74-26694 For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402- Price $1.45 (paper cover) Stock Number 2401-02574 CONTENTS Page Abstract --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Introduction -------------------------------------------------.----------------------------- 1 Acknowledgments ______________________________ -
The ECPHORA the Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 26 Number 1 March 2011
The ECPHORA The Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 26 Number 1 March 2011 Stranded Beaked Whale Features Shark Tooth Hill, California Homage to Jean Hooper Calvert Cliffs at Last Serpulid Worm Shells, Corrected Inside May 21 Lecture by Catalina Pimiento ―Giant Shark Babies from Panama‖ Dolphin Limb Donated by USNMNH President’s Message CMMFC Shirt Order(See Page 12) Unfortunately, this adult male beaked whale, Mesoplodon grayi, stranded Fossil Club Field Trips in western Victoria, Australia in January. Museum Victoria collected the and Events whole animal for future research. See an up-close image of the beak on Stranded Beaked Whale page 11. Photo © by Sean Wright; submitted by Erich Fitzgerald. ☼ The Smithsonian Institution recently donated these small dolphin flipper bones to the comparative osteology collection at the Calvert Marine Museum. Many thanks to Charley Potter for arranging/facilitating the donation. ☼ CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM www.calvertmarinemuseum.com 2 The Ecphora March 2011 President's Message in 2009. The phosphate is used for fertilizer and animal feed; the phosphoric acid ends up in that cold bottle of Coca Cola you swig after a day of The weather is warming up in eastern North collecting. Carolina, but it's been a tough 12 months for Much of the demand comes from the collecting south of the border. PCS Aurora skyrocketing need for fertilizer, especially overseas (Miocene) is still closed to fossil collecting as is the in India and China. Late last year rumors circulated Martin Marietta mine in Belgrade (Late Oligocene, that the Chinese were trying to buy the company. -
The ECPHORA the Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 24 Number 1 March 2009
The ECPHORA The Newsletter of the Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club Volume 24 Number 1 March 2009 Features Long-Term Service to the Fossil Club Crocodilian Femur For about the 27th straight year, Tim Miller and Mike Ellwood Bitten Dolphin have set up both an exhibit case and a hands-on demonstration booth at the Rostrum Montgomery County Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral Society's annual show Inside (held at the Gaithersburg, MD Fairgrounds on March 21/22). Mike was a Rhino Teeth member of the society from the late 70s till about 1995. The CMMFC Mako Tattoo exhibit attracts about 2500 visitors to its booth each year, many of them are Rare Fossil Dolphin children and their parents (or scoutmasters), and learning about the natural Club Dates for 2009 bounty we have in Southern Maryland and particularly, where they can go to collect them is always a big hit. Mike sets up under both his name (since Important Notice: he is an ex-member of the Mineral Society) and the Museum's, and they CMMFC Renewal Form hand out brochures for Calvert County, the Fossil Club, and the Museum. Within. Please renew your club membership. Editor’s Note: The Fossil Club is very grateful for their service and I Thank you. extend my thanks to all club members who so generously donate their time to the success of this scientific endeavor. Upcoming Lecture: Saturday, May 30th, 2009 Calvert Marine Museum Auditorium, 2:30. Dr. Karen Roberts will speak on: "The Evolving Ark: 60 Million Years of Life and Land in Australia" This presentation will explore the epic voyage of Australia as it separated from Antarctica and began its long drift north towards Asia, carrying as Exhibits by Mike Ellwood and Tim Miller are perennial favorites of those who visit the Montgomery County Gem, Lapidary, and Mineral passengers the most remarkable and unique Society's annual show. -
Fossil Footnotes
Fossil Footnotes Central Texas Paleontological Society March 2005 President’s Report FOSSIL of the MONTH Many of you have seen this before but it is worth Hi to all. Mercy this weather has been cold and showing again. It is a spectacular, perfectly nasty. I have been suffering with a bad cold as a preserved Cidarid sea urchin found by Mike result and am just now getting over it. I hope Smith a couple of years ago on a field trip to everyone else has made it through unscathed. Lake Travis hosted by Hal Hopkins. These are The one good thing, with all this rain, hopefully extremely rare and a once in a lifetime find. a lot of fossils will weather out for us to collect. Lower Cretaceous - Lower Glen Rose Formation We had a great February meeting with excellent attendance. A lot of new faces and new members attended which we were all very happy to see. Welcome to all of the new members. On a cool wet Saturday February the 19th four club members volunteered their time to man a table at the Austin Children’s Museum grand opening of there Dinosaur Expo. The four were Marcelle Spilker, David Lindberg, Mike Smith and Danny Harlow. There was excellent attendance and we all had a lot of fun showing the kids and parents Fossils of Texas. It will be open every Saturday on into the summer so go by a see it if you get a chance. See you at the March meeting! Danny March Meeting to be held on CTPS Minutes February 8, 2005 Tuesday, March 8, 2005 The meeting had a great turn out with several The March meeting will be at the LCRA new members. -
Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator Bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain Norman F. So hi 1 and Carl F. Koch2 Open File Feport 83-451 This report is preliminary and has not been reviewed for conformity with U.S. Geological Survey editorial Standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Pages are numbered one to four and seven to 239. 1. Washington D.C. 2. Old Dominion University Norfolk, Va, 1983 CONTENTS Page Introduction 1 Explanation 1 Explanation of Annotation 4 References 9 Molluscan Faunal Lists 11 ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1 Map showing location of collections 2 Relationships of stratigraphic units within the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone, East Gulf Coastal Plain TABLE Table 1 U.S. Geological Survey numbers of collections for each location Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) Mollusca from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the East Gulf Coastal Plain INTRODUCTION The following report contains lists of the molluscan fauna from 189 collections made at 161 localities or different levels at a locality in the rocks of the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone as exposed in western Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee (Figure 1). This compilation forms the data base for a series of studies published, in press or in preparation (Buzas, £t_ al. , 1982; Koch and Sohl, in press). The Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone was proposed by Sohl (1977) and traced through Late Cretaceous rocks of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains from New Jersey to Texas (Owens, et_jil_., 1977; Sohl and Smith, 1980). The base of the zone occurs above the base of the foraminiferid Globotruncana gansseri subzone of Pessagno (1967) and includes all subsequent younger Cretaceous deposits on the Coastal Plains (Figure 2). -
Three New Turonian Muricacean Gastropods from the Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California
THE VELIGER © CMS, Inc., 1996 The Veliger 39(2):125-135 (April 1, 1996) Three New Turonian Muricacean Gastropods from the Santa Ana Mountains, Southern California by L. R. SAUL Invertebrate Paleontology, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Abstract. Three new species of Praesargana, P. argentea, P. confraga, and P. kennedyi, are the first sarganines reported from southern California. These rare muricacean gastropods of late Turonian age occur in the Baker Canyon Sandstone Member and the overlying lower part of the Holz Shale Member of the Ladd Formation in the Santa Ana Mountains, Orange County, California. Inclusion of P. argentea and P. kennedyi in Praesargana broadens the concept of the genus to include species that have spiny sculpture, and species that lack a strong axial component to the sculpture. One species of Praesargana, P. condoni (White, 1889), was previously known from the Turonian of northern California. This threefold increase in diversity in a more southern fauna suggests that Praesargana may be indicative of a warm- temperate to tropical climate. Sarganinae resemble predaceous Muricidae rather than ciliary-feeding Trichotropidae, but have a fold on the columella and a protoconch more like that of Pyropsinae. For these reasons, despite recent assignments to other families, Sarganinae are included in the family Tudiclidae of the Muricacea. INTRODUCTION About 35 calices are present on the fragment, which pos- sibly used a gastropod shell as substrate. Corals are rare Although gastropods of Cretaceous age from the Santa in Pacific Slope Late Cretaceous deposits, and colonial Ana Mountains, Orange County, California, have been corals even rarer. -
Ecphora QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of the CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM FOSSIL CLUB Volume 13, Number 1 Winter 1997 Whole Number 43
The Ecphora QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM FOSSIL CLUB Volume 13, Number 1 Winter 1997 Whole Number 43 Reprinted from The Australian MagazineJuly 24-25 1993. COULD IT HAPPEN? Films in which scientists re-create dinosaurs by extracting DNA molecules fromfossilised remains and 'growing'them are not as fantastic as we might suppose. By Nigel Hawkes "I'll be damned!" says a breakfasting on passing jeeps. character in Michael Crichton's Gripping stuff, the book also novel Jurassic Park. "That might displays an up-to-the-minute just work." As it launches a knowledge of DNA, based on -------. publicity blitz of brontosaurian Crichton's friendship with .one of proportions to plug Steven the pioneers of a new field of Spielberg's film, Universal Pictures science, which we might call is echoing the sentiment. IfJurassic palaeogenetics. Park the movie can be·turned into a George Poinar, professor of hit by the sheer volume of entomology at the University of associated merchandise, they are California, has extracted DNAfrom home free - in the US alone more a bee preserved in amber for 40 than 100 companies have been lined million years. The bee was trapped up to sell 1000 products .associated on a conifer tree by sap flowingover with the film. The 'selling' of the it - killing it and sealing it from the film will be no less intensive in air, so preventing decay. In Jurassic Australia and elsewhere in the Park, the DNAcomes not from a bee world. but from a blood-suckinginsect that The power of the book, had recently feasted on the ample however, rests not on puff but flanks of a dinosaur. -
Stratigraphic Revision of Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene Beds of the Chesapeake Group, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain
Stratigraphic Revision of Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene Beds of the Chesapeake Group, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1482-D Stratigraphic Revision of Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene Beds of the Chesapeake Group, Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain By LAUCK W. WARD and BLAKE W. BLACKWELDER CONTRIBUTIONS TO STRATIGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1482-D UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 198.0 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY H. William Menard Director Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ward, Lauck W Stratigraphic revision of upper Miocene and lower Pliocene beds of the Chesapeake group-middle Atlantic Coastal Plain. (Contributions to stratigraphy) (Geological Survey bulletin ; 1482-D) Bibliography: p. Supt. of Docs. no. : I 19.3:1482-D 1. Geology, Stratigraphic-Miocene. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic-Pliocene. 3. Geology- Middle Atlantic States. I. Blackwelder, Blake W., joint author. II. Title. III. Series. IV. Series: United States. Geological Survey. Bulletin ; 1482-D. QE694.W37 551.7'87'0975 80-607052 For sale by Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, D.C. 20402 CONTENTS Page Abstract __ Dl Introduction 1 Acknowledgments ____________________________ 4 Discussion ____________________________________ 4 Chronology of depositional events ______________________ 7 Miocene Series _________________________________ g Eastover Formation ___________________________ 8 Definition and description ___________________ -
Assemblage, Ostrea Disparalis, Chione ?T!O Montmorillonite Was the Dominant Clay Min Cyma, and Ecphora Qttadricostata Tnnbilicata
TIJLANE STIJDIES IN GEOLOGY Volume 4, Number 2 May 27, 1966 STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER MIOCENE DEPOSITS IN SARASOTA COUNTY, FLORIDA HERBERT C. EPPERT . .TR . JJEPAH'l'JfEN'l' OF' GEOLOGY 'ITL.1 N£' UNII'b'RSJ'JT CONTENTS Page I. ABSTRACT __ ____ _ 49 11. INTROD UCTION 50 III. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 50 IV. PROCEDURE 50 V. STRATIGRAPHY 52 VI. MINERAL ANALYSIS OF THE AQUICLUDE 60 VII. SUMMARY ____ __ _ 60 VIII. LITERATURE CITED 61 I. ABSTRACT one ttlocyma, Ostrea cf. 0. tamiamiensis, The presence of undisputed Upper Mio Ostrea tamiamiensis monroensis, and En cene sediments in Sarasota County, Florida, cope macrophora tamiamiensis. has nor been widely known. Most authors Within the Upper Miocene deposits exists have stared that the Middle Miocene Haw an impermeable bur porous bed character thorn Formation is overlain by Pliocene to ized by a decrease in radioactivity and elec Recent deposits. The Upper Miocene is rep trical resistivity. These characteristics are resented in southern Florida by the Tamiami indicative of clay and the interpretation of Formation. The Upper Miocene age deter x-ray diffraCtion patterns verified the pre mination is based on the characteristic faunal dominance of clay minerals in rhe aquiclude. assemblage, Ostrea disparalis, Chione ?t!o Montmorillonite was the dominant clay min cyma, and Ecphora qttadricostata tnnbilicata. eral with lesser amounts of attapulgire and Fossil mollusks, echinoderms, and bryozoans alpha sepiolite. collected from ourcrops, quarries, and sink holes in this area definitely confirm the Based on evidence presented in this paper, presence of Upper Miocene sediments in the Upper Miocene deposits occurring in Sarasota County. -
Evolutionary Paleoecology of the Maryland Miocene
The Geology and Paleontology of Calvert Cliffs Calvert Formation, Calvert Cliffs, South of Plum Point, Maryland. Photo by S. Godfrey © CMM A Symposium to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Calvert Marine Museum’s Fossil Club Program and Abstracts November 11, 2006 The Ecphora Miscellaneous Publications 1, 2006 2 Program Saturday, November 11, 2006 Presentation and Event Schedule 8:00-10:00 Registration/Museum Lobby 8:30-10:00 Coffee/Museum Lobby Galleries Open Presentation Uploading 8:30-10:00 Poster Session Set-up in Paleontology Gallery Posters will be up all day. 10:00-10:05 Doug Alves, Director, Calvert Marine Museum Welcome 10:05-10:10 Bruce Hargreaves, President of the CMMFC Welcome Induct Kathy Young as CMMFC Life Member 10:10-10:30 Peter Vogt & R. Eshelman Significance of Calvert Cliffs 10:30-11:00 Susan Kidwell Geology of Calvert Cliffs 11:00-11-15 Patricia Kelley Gastropod Predator-Prey Evolution 11:15-11-30 Coffee/Juice Break 11:30-11:45 Lauck Ward Mollusks 11:45-12:00 Bretton Kent Sharks 12:00-12:15 Michael Gottfried & L. Compagno C. carcharias and C. megalodon 12:15-12:30 Anna Jerve Lamnid Sharks 12:30-2:00 Lunch Break Afternoon Power Point Presentation Uploading 2:00-2:15 Roger Wood Turtles 2:15-2:30 Robert Weems Crocodiles 2:30-2:45 Storrs Olson Birds 2:45-3:00 Michael Habib Morphology of Pelagornis 3:00-3:15 Ralph Eshelman, B. Beatty & D. Domning Terrestrial Vertebrates 3:15-3:30 Coffee/Juice Break 3:30-3:45 Irina Koretsky Seals 3:45-4:00 Daryl Domning Sea Cows 4:00-4:15 Jennifer Gerholdt & S. -
Marilyn Fogel CV
CURRICULUM VITAE Marilyn Louise Fogel Wilbur W. Mayhew Chair of Geoecology Director of the EDGE Institute Depts. of Earth Science and Environmental Science University of California Riverside 900 University Ave., Riverside, CA 92521 Phone: 209-205-6743 (cell and office); Email: [email protected]; [email protected] PROFESSIONAL PREPARATION B.S. Biology with honors, The Pennsylvania State University, 1970-1973. Ph. D. Botany and Marine Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Marine Science Institute, Port Aransas Marine Laboratory, 1974-1977, Drs. Chase Van Baalen, Patrick Parker, and F. Robert Tabita, Advisors. Dissertation title: "Carbon isotope fractionation by ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase from various organisms." Carnegie Corporation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1977- 1979, Dr. Thomas C. Hoering, Advisor. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences Department, UC Riverside- Sept. 1 to present. Director, EDGE Institute (Environmental Dynamics and Geo-Ecology Institute), Sept. 1 to present. Chair, Life and Environmental Sciences Unit, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced- July 2013-August 2016. Professor, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced-January 2013- August 31, 2016. Staff Member, Geophysical Laboratory-July 1979 to December 2012. Adjunct Staff Member- January 2013 to December 2013. Adjunct Professor, University of Delaware College of Marine Studies-1989 to 2014. Visiting Staff Member, Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1985-1986. Visiting Researcher, Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Institution-1994 to 1999. Visiting Professor, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College-1995. Research Professor, George Washington University, Dept. of Anthropology-April 1999 to July 2004. Research Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Environmental Research Center, 2003-2009. -
A Field Guide to the Fossils of Scientists' Cliffs
A Field Guide to the Fossils of Scientists’ Cliffs A brief introduction to the geological history of the area, with descriptions of the common (and not so common) fossils found here. July 2004 Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................................................................ 0 1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................................................... 3 1.2 OBJECTIVES ...................................................................................................................................................... 4 1.3 SCOPE .............................................................................................................................................................. 4 1.5 APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 5 1.6 DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION ............................................................................................................................... 5 2. GEOLOGY .............................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1 NAMING ROCK/SOIL UNITS ...............................................................................................................................