Vol 8, Number 3, Fall 1992

QUARTERLY
NEWSLETTER
OF THE CALVERT MARINE MUSEUM FOSSIL CLUB
Editor:
Volume 8, No.3
Fall 1992
Whole Number 29
Donna Richardson
301-872-4240
DUE DATE FOR NEXT ISSUE IS NOVEMBER 1. SEND MTERIAl. TO EDITOR AT
P.O. BOX 272, ST. INIGOES, MD 20684 AND/OR CALL NUMBER ABOVE.
IF YOU FIND SOMETHING GOOD ON A CMM TRIP, LET THE EDITOR KNOW!
MEMBERSHIP AND FIELD TRIP INFORMATION AT END OF ISSUE.
PSEUDODONTORNS:
CALVERT CLIFFS' BIG BIRDS
by Matt Andrea
Saturday, April 4 was a classic spring morning--crystal blue sky,
temperature in the lower bOs--perfect for fossil-hunting at Calvert Cliffs.
My Tidelines tide calendar indicated that low tide
at Chesapeake Beach would be at 10:51 a.m., so I threw my waders
into the trunk of my paleomobile and headed for Randle Cliff.
When I got to the beach I was alone and my mind was on BIG TEETH.
I walked south to the end of the beach, waded around the treefalls and cliffs, and began inspecting the mini-beaches that
appear sporadically between Brownie's Beach and the Randle Cliff
Naval Station.
It was there that I had my first encounter with
BIG BIRD--not the friendly character of Sesame Street fame, but
rather a bone fragment lying in the sand, unlike any I had previously found.
It was 2 1/2" long, 1/2" wide for most of its
length, and very porous.
At one end, where the bone was 1" wide,
there were two rounded nubs separated by a smooth depression.
At
the other end was a jagged diagonal break, filled with typical
blue-green Calvert sediment.
I agitated the bone in the water to
wash off the sediment, and then discovered that it was hollow.
The bone's general shape, the jagged break and the hollow interior were reminiscent of a broken chicken bone. This was pretty
neat, I thought, and I couldn't wait to show it to Dave Bohaska.
The opportunity for "show and tell" came the following Saturday.
I took my bone to the CMM Fossil Club Annual Meeting at Matoaka
Cottages.
Dave looked at it and said, "Definitely bird."
He
asked if he could take it back to the Smithsonian to have the
ornithologists
look at it. On April 15, Dave called me at my office to inform me that my specimen (which the Smithsonian wanted
to keep) was the proximal end of the scapula of a large species
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of pseudodontorn.
I gasped, "A what?"
He patiently broke the
name down into its component parts:
pseudo=false; dont=tooth;
ornis=a bird.
He asked if I had ever seen the large bird skeleton hanging in the Fossil Hall's "Life in the Ancient Seas"
exhibit.
I confessed I hadn't.
He invited me to come to the
Smithsonian to see that and other pseudodontorn specimens in the
collection.
I asked if he was free that day.
He was, so I
cancelled my lunch plans and walked across the mall to the Museum
of Natural History (10 minutes from my office at l'Enfant Plaza.)
Before meeting with Dave, I went to the Cenozoic exhibit of "Life
in the Ancient Seas." And there it was--hanging from the ceiling
--a reconstructed skeleton of the largest flying seabird that
ever lived, wings outstretched in a gliding position, its enormous "toothed" bill open as if to snatch its prey.
How could I
have missed it?! Beneath the flying skeleton were a number of
fossil bones, including an ulna, humerus, articulated vertebrae
and skull from Oregon; a bill with "teeth" from California; and a
"toothed" bill tip from Maryland donated by Wally Ashby. The
exhibit explained that pseudodontorns were related to pelicans
and boobies, that their wings were designed for gliding rather
than flapping, and that their pseudo-teeth were projections of
bone from the jaws rather than teeth of dentine and enamel.
Dave showed me other specimens from the Calvert Formation, and I
noted that many had been found and donated by Wally Ashby.
Dave
also showed me bones of an Oligocene pseudodontorn found near
Charleston, S.C. These remains, consisting of wing, leg, and
skull bones, are the largest and most complete found to date,
and one of the primary sources for the reconstructed skeleton in
the "Life of the Ancient Seas" exhibit.
Just befo~e I left the
Smithsonian, Dave introduced me to Ken Warheit, who has been studying pseudodontorns for a number of years.
Re4arding my specimen, Ken said, "Nice bone--please find us some more like that!"
After this encouragement, I wanted to learn more about these phenomenal birds.
I phoned Wally Ashby and Dr. Storrs Olson, a curator of the Smithsonian's Division of Birds.
They sent me copies
of press releases, newspaper articles and old issues of The
Ecphora (#10 & #11). I visited Wally Ashby at Scientists Cliffs,
who showed me areas in Beds 12 and 13 in the Calvert Formation
where many of his specimens were found.
Finally, I visited Dr.
Olson at the Smithsonian. He explained that pseudodontorns are in
the same order as pelicans, boobies, gannets, frigate birds, and
cormorants.
The common characteristic of these birds is that all
four of their toes are in the web.
The term "pseudodontorn" is
commonly used as the name of a family of birds that appears to
have lived through most of the Tertiary Period, from the Paleocene/Eocene to the Pliocene. Their remains have been found in
such diverse areas as France, England, the Caucasus, Nigeria, New
Zealand, Japan, Seymour Island (Antarctica)~ and, in the U.S.,
Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Oregon, and California.
According to Dr. Olson, three distinct genera of pseudodontorns
have been identified.
The earliest genus, Odontopterix, appears
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in the Paleocene/Eocene of England. The genus which inhabited the
Northern Pacific is known as Osteodontornis.
The genus which
lived in the Atlantic and South Pacific is called Pelagornis.
Dr.
Olson said there are probably three distinct species of Pelagornis in the Maryland Miocene, ranging from a "small" pelican-sized
bird with a nine-foot wingspan to a very large bird, similar to
the Charleston specimen, with a wingspan of up to eighteen feet.
Other recent Pelagornis finds by members of the CMM Fossil Club
include the proximal end of an ulna, found by Wally Ashby at Parker Creek; the proximal end of a femur, found by Donna Richardson
at Chancellor's Point; and a femur shaft fragment (possibly from
the same individual as Donna's specimen) found by Bob Shaw at
Chancellor's Point. The significance of Donna's and Bob's bones
is that they are the first evidence of Pelagornis in the St.
Mary's Formation.
Previously, no Pelagornis remains had been
confirmed above the Calvert in Maryland and Virginia, although
their presence at Lee Creek in the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene)
suggests that they should be found throughout the Miocene.
The excitement about pseudodontorns should not cause other fossil
birds to be overlooked.
Other birds found in the Calvert include
gannets, boobies, auks (two species), albatrosses, loons, a few
ducks, and a tropicbird, named Heliadornis ashbyi by Dr. Olson.
Bones of land birds from the quail/pheasant group have also been
found.
If you find what you think are fossil bird bones, Dave
Bohaska or Dr. Olson at the Smithsonian or Mike Gottfried at CMM
would be happy to look at them.
If there is sediment inside the
bone, don't wash it out as I did, since microfossils in the sediment can help pinpoint the bone's age. If you find bird bones in
the cliff, get the assistance of a paleontologist to remove them.
Finally, a message for all you BIG TEETH hunters.
If you look
down and see something that looks like the remains of last week's
Kentucky Fried Chicken, don't hesitate to bend down and pick it
up.
It might just be BIG BIRD~
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Lateral view of skull and mandible of pseudodontorn
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(pelagornis sp.). Drawing by Michael Tiffany.
Special thanks to Dave Bohaska~ Storrs Olson~ Ken Warheit~ and
Nally Ashby for their assistance. Illustration prepared by the
Smithsonian Exhibits Department and provided by Ken Warheit.
Acknowledgement also to Jim Henson and Children's Television
iforkshop~ creator and proprietor of Sesame Str~et "s Big Bird.)
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CMM FOSSIL CLUB TRIP REPORTS
MAZOI CREEK: On the weekend of June 5-6, the two remaining
members of the CMM club who signed up to trek to Chicago, Mike
Batista and Donna Richardson, made their separate, lengthy ways
to Orland Park south of Chicago.
The next morning they met up
with Gene Hartstein, the peripatetic CMM club member who graciously invited other club members to enjoy the hunt of a lifetime
at the famous Mazon Creek site (see article in Ninter '92 issue).
With five members of the Chicago club to which Gene belongs--Todd
McGee, Maurizio Bottoni, Jiangang Sun, Jurek Polanski, and Dave
Bergman--Mike and Donna participated in one of the stranger kinds
of fossil-hunting imaginable.
Gene and Dave launched their somewhat decrepit boats (Dave's wouldn't start and Gene had to bail
his all day) into a man-made lake four miles wide, once a coal
strip-mine and now the cooling pond for a Com Ed nuke.
The group
landed on the islands in the lake, former spoil-heaps from the
mine, and looked for red pyrite nodules, preferably large and
perfectly round but usually small and irregular.
The day was
fine, the company good, the water unnaturally warm (mostly from
the nuke). Occasionally one could find a nodule that was already
broken open, but usually they were whole.
This means that the
hunters wouldn't know what they found until they returned home
and completed a potentially endless ritual of soaking the rocks
(5 days), blasting them in the freezer for several hours, pouring
boiling water over them, and then letting them dry out again
(after about 15 rounds of freezing-thawing).
The editor has yet
to identify those of her nodules that have cracked open, but the
most common find is a jellyfish fondly called "the blob" by the
local hunters because of its featureless round appearance.
(If I
ever get mine identified and talk to Mike Batista, perhaps more
info on what we found will appear.)
The hope is that some turn
out to be jawless fish, perfect polychaete worms, and (please) a
Tully Monster.
At least none of them seems to glow in the dark.
Many thanks to Gene and the Chicago club; we hope this bizarre
but pleasant event may take place again with more CMM members.
LIVERPOOL POIRT:
June 13 was an exquisite day for a field trip
to this Paleocene site on the Potomac River in Charles County.
The group, led by Matt Andrea, included Jim and Jeana Evans; John
Rounseville and daughter Melissa; Pam Ogasawara; Stan, LaShea,
and Julie Johnson; Elizabeth Slaughter; Rick Flo; Tom McNelis;
Vicki Bushong; and Al and Cheryl Snelson. We initially missed the
entrance to the park (1.7 miles south of Liverpool Point Road on
MD Rte. 224).
We got to the river an hour before low tide, but
the water was high due to recent rains.
Everyone found plenty of
Carcharias (Odontaspis) teeth.
Matt found a small well-formed
Otodus tooth.
Vicki found a perfect Thecachampsa tooth and Tom
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found a small dermal scute.
Pam found what seemed to be a sea
.turtle phalange and Al found a 2 1/2" sea turtle scute.
John
found a shark vertebral centrum and Jeana found a 1 1/2" Otodus
tooth.
We came upon a place where large blocks of marl, loaded
with Turritella mortoni casts, had broken off the cliffs.
A
newer member asked, "How do you extract a Turritella from its
matrix?"
Another, clearly more experienced fossicker quickly
answered, "You unscrew it, of course~" They were actually quite
easy to remove from the eroded marl.
It was in Turritella territory that Cheryl made the "find of the day"--a complete f1yliobatis den tition, measuring 2 3/4" x 2".
About half the group later drove to another Paleocene site near
Rosecroft Raceway, south of the Beltway (the bed of a tributary
of Henson Creek, described in Glaser's Finding Fossils in ~aryland). There we found many casts of the clam Cucull~a gigant.a.
We do not advise others to visit this site in the summer as there
was poison ivy everywhere--but we rubbed our exposed body parts
with jewelweed as we left and no one was infected.
--~att Andrea
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Summer Sniglefest
Whoopsie-Doodle, v.i. To stop, back up, go round in circles,
do k-turns and invade peoples' driveways in a desperate effort to
find a site or to tailblaze a vanishing caravan leader.
Wannaaania, n.s.
The overwhelming urge to pay a dealer exorbitant prices for fossils that aren't worth it. COmmon at gem &
fossil shows, where it seems to be a form of group hysteria.
Snatchits, n.pl. Generic term for the tools used to avoid endless
bending, dousing of hands in cold water, and reaching under rocks
whp.re fauna lurk. Includes salad tongs, gem scoops, thingums
with baskets on the end, and variously-adapted garden tools.
D~J~ pfui (var. phooey), n.s.
The sinking feeling upon .rriving
at your favorite site and seeing your main rival returning up the
beach with handfuls of the prize specimens you anticipated collecting.
Often followed by an attack of the Greedipus complex.
Tooth couth, n.s.
The etiquette of collecting which makes fossickers spread out and eschew grabbing specimens from under others despite sevp~~ ~~~pt~ti2n
and superior reflexes.Reaches highest form in act of praising another's great find, while assuming
a fixed smile and gritting one"s teeth to avoid gnashing them.
Tooth sleuth, n.s.
One of those people who can find every good
tooth in the area and who comes up with prime specimens when no
one else can find a thing.
Usually lives a short but happy life.
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Several sniglets
in special
honor of Lee Creek fossiling:
Beyond the Pail. 1) A large, heavy fossil (e.g. whale
discovered several miles down into the Texasgulf pit.
sil which would have been desireable if found earlier
but which is now too heavy or too far from the car to
Boneanza,
n.s.
The Find of the Day.
Entitles
vertebrae)
2) Any fosin the day,
shlep back.
one to be the--
Boastmaster, n.s.
The fortunate one who gets the Find of the Day
and is entitled to tell everyone else about it at great length.
If person survives long enough, may show off the boneanza at the
Rendezview, n.s.
The gathering after a fossil hunt to guzzle
gallons of water, dump sand out of shoes, remove fauna, perform
as much oneupmanship as possible, and tell
Paleotales, n.pl.
Also known as Fossilies (pronounced fossillize). Grand sagas about encountering fearsome fauna and identifying a formation in order to find one's best tooth (when it was
at lunchtime--a Serendipitush).
really found by sitting on
it
Coprolights, n.pl.
Those unpleasant flashing red lights seen in
the rearview mirror as a result of too much whoopsiedoodling,
tailblazing, rushing to a site, or parking in a posted location.
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TREASURER"S
REPORT FOR FY 1992
Cash on hand 7-1-91
Income
Dues
Donation
Country contribution for PRAD
Expenses
Printing the newsletter
Postage
Misc.
$
390.63
1057.00
987.00
20.00
50.00
941.70
559.89
280.00
101.81
505.93
Cash on hand 7-1-92
On 7-1-92 the Fossil Club had 141 dues-paying members plus 11
non-paying advisors and honorary members.
We also send copies of
the Ecphora to 16 museums and sister fossil clubs.
---Wally
Ashby,
treasurer
THANKS TO THIS ISSUE"S CONTRIBUTORS: MATT ANDREA and WALLY ASHBY
(WHO BETWEEN THEM WROTE MOST OF IT), STEVE BRADY, AND SANDY
ROBERTS.
FOR FIELD TRIPS, SPECIAL THANKS TO TERRY CIRRINCIONE,
DAVE BOHASKA, AND MATT ANDREA.
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FOSSIL-RELATED
ARTICLES IN THE ECPHORA AND
SPRING 1976-SPRING 1992
THE BUGEYE TII'IES
by Wally Ashby
Titles are listed chronologically within the following groupings:
General, Plants, Invertebrates, Sharks & Rays, Bony Fish, Reptiles, Birds, Marine Mammals, Land Mammals, and Collecting Sites.
For back copies of The Ecphara, specify issues by date and send
50 cents per copy for printing costs plus SASE to the editor at
P.O. Box 272, St. Inigoes, MD 20684.
GENERAL
"Brief History of the Fossil Club."
I-No. 1, Summer 1985.
"Fossils on Stamps"
Winter 1986.
by Wally Ashby.
"Miocene Paleotemperatures"
3-No. 3, Summer 1987.
"Preparator"s Techniques"
3-No. 3, Summer 1987.
Anonymous,
The Ecphora, Vol.
The Ecphora, Vol. 2-No. 1,
The Ecphora, Vol.
by Reese Barrick.
by Howard Converse
Jr.
"Dating the Arrival of Tektites through Fossils"
Ecphora, Vol. 4-No. 2, Summer 1988.
The Ecphora, Vol.
by Al Robb.
"Norm Riker's Museum Annex" by Donna Richardson.
Vol. 6 (misnumbered Vol. 5)- No.1,
Spring 1990.
The
The Ecphora,
"The Ashbys'of Scientists Cliffs" by Donna Richardson.
The
Ecphora, Vol. 6 (misnumbered
Vol. 5)- No.2, Summer 1990.
"Elinor Cofer: The Nicest Fossicker in Ridge" by Donna Richardson. The Ecphora, Vol. 6-No. 3, Fall 1990.
"Connie Smi th of Matoaka Cottages"
Ecphora, Vol. 6-No. 4, Fall/Winter
by Donna Richardson.
1990.
The
"Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Rltgion and the Early History
of Paleontology in North America" by Michael D. Gottfried.
Bugeye Times, Vol. 16-No. 3, Fall 1991.
PLANTS
"Searching for Fossil Pine Cones" by Dixie Stark (as transcribed
by Dave Bohaska).
The Ecphora, Vol. 3-No. 1, Winter 1987.
"Palynological Studies in the Salisbury Embayment" by Laurent de
Verteuil.
The £cphora, Vol. 3-No. 2, Spring 1987.
INVERTEBRATES
"Abertell a aberti (sand do 11ar-)" by Sandy Roberts.
Vol. 6-No. 4, Winter- 1981.
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Bugeye
Times,
"Turritella plebeia Say, Turret Snail" by Sandy Roberts.
Times, Vol. 7-No. 1, Spring 1982.
"Scaphopods (Tooth shells)"
8-No. 1, Spring 1983.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye
Bugeye
Times~ Vol.
"The Naticidae or Moon Snails" by Sandy Roberts.
Vol. 8-No. 3, Fall 1983.
Bugeye
"Balanus concavus Bronn" by Sandy Roberts.
NO.4,
Winter 1983.
Times~ Vol. 8-
"Growth Rates of the Chesapecten Scallop"
Ecphora~ Vol. I-No.2,
Fall 1985.
Bugeye
Times,
by David Krantz.
The
"Chesapecten, the Chesapeake Fossil Scallop" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times~ Vol. 10-No. 4, Winter 1985-86.
"The Nomenclatural History of the Genus Ecphora"
Bohaska.
The Ecphora~ Vol. 3-No. 4, Fall/Winter
by David
1987.
"Fossil Geoduck Clam, Panopea americana" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times~ Vol. 13-No. 1, Spring 1988.
"Rediscovery of Fissuridea redimicula?"
Ecphora, Vol. 4-No. 4, Winter 1988-89.
by Donna Richardson.
The
"Xenophora conchliophora (The Carrier Shell)" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times~ Vol. 14-No. 3, Fall 1989.
.
"Betty Cridlin' s Elegant Ecphora" by Donna Richardson.
Ecphora~ Vol. 5-No. 4, Winter 1989/1990.
The
"Discinisca lugubr is" by Sandy Roberts.
NO.3,
Fall 1990.
Bugeye
Times~ Vol. 15-
"Isognomon maxillata"
No.1,
Spring 1991.
Bugeye
Times~ Vol. 16-
"Scuta and Terga"
Winter 1991/1992.
by Sandy Roberts.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye
Times, Vol. 16-No. 4,
"Ghastropods: Or, Not-So-Boring Boring Snails and Other Miocene
Monsters" by Donna Richardson. The Ecphora, Vol 7-No. 4,
Fall/Winter 1991.
SHARKS AND RAYS
"Carcharodon megalodon, the Great White Shark" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times~ Vol. 6-No. 3, Fall 1981.
"Ray Teeth"
1982.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye
"Tiger Shark Teeth" by Sandy Roberts.
4, Winter 1982.
8
Times~ Vol. 7-No. 2, Summer
Bugeye
Times~ Vol. 7-No.
"Dermal Denticles of Raja dux Cope" by Sandy Roberts.
Times, Vol. 9-No. 2, Summer 1984.
"Hemipristis serra Agassiz"
9-No. 3, Fall 1984.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bui/eye
Bugeye
Times,. Yol.
"Caudal Spines of the Miocene Stingrays" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times, Yolo 11-No. 4, Winter 1986/1987.
"Shar k Coprolites"
3, Fall 1987.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye
Times, Vol. 12-No.
"How Big is a Big Calvert Shark Tooth?" by Wally Ashby.
Ecphora, Yolo 4-No. 4, Winter 1988-1989.
"An Extinct Angel Shark, Squatina occidentalis"
Bugeye Times, Yolo 13-No. 4, Winter 1988-1989.
"Shark Vertebrae"
Summer 1989.
by Sandy Roberts.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bui/eye Times, Vol. 14-No. 2,
"Simplified Shark Tooth Identification"
Ecphora, Vol. 6-No. 3, Fall 1990.
BOBY FISH
"Hyperostoses ('Tilly Bones')"
Vol. 8-No. 2, Summer 1983.
Thtl
by Craig DeTal1ple.
by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye
Times,
"Ocean Sunfish from the Miocene of Maryland and Elsewhere."
ymous. The Ecphora, Vol. 2-No. 3, Summer 1986.
"Ocean Sunfish"
Fall 1986.
by Sandy Roberts. Bugeye
"Fish Scales" by Sandy Roberts.
Summer 1987.
Bugeye
Times, VoL
The
Anon-
11-No. 3,
Times, Vol. 12-No. 2,
"Common Fossil Bony Fish Remains" by George C. Fonger.
Times, Yolo 12-No. 4, Winter 1987-1988.
Bugeye
"Pharyngeal Teeth of the Black Drum Fish" by Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times, Vol. 13-No. 3, Fall 1988.
"Evidence of the Salmonid Enchodus ferox from the Severn Formation (Early Middle Maestrichtian, Cretaceous) of Maryland."
Anonymous.
The Ecphora, Vol. 5-No. 1, Spring 1989. "An Illustrated Check List of Bony Fish Remains from the
Paleocene and Eocene Pamunkey Group of Maryland and Virginia"
Bob Wiest.
The Ecphora, Vol. 6-No. 3, Fall 1990.
REPTILBS
"ThecachaJ1Jpsaantiqua Leidy" by Sandy Roberts.
Yolo 10-No. 2, Summer 1985.
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Bui/eye Times,
by
"Psephophorus calvertensis, a Miocene Leatherback Turtle" by
Sandy Roberts.
Bugeye Times, Vol. 11-No. 2, Summer 1986.
"A Review of Robert Weem's Paleocene Turtles from the Aquia and
Brightseat Formations" by Dave Bohaska.
The Ecphora, Vol. 4-No.
3 , Fa 1 1 1988.
BIRDS
"Restoration of a Miocene Bird (Pelagornis) Utilizing Techniques
in Taxidermy" by Jan J. Roth and E. Carol Roth.
Bug~ye Times,
Vol. 8-No. 1, Spring 1983.
"Fossil Tropicbird from Calvert Cliffs."
Vol. 2-No. 2, Spring 1986.
Anonymous.
The Ecphora,
"Pseudodontorns in the News." Smithsonian Institution
lease.
The Ecphora, Vol. 3-No. 4, Fall/Winter 1987.
"Collecting Pseudodontorns at Calvert
Ecphora, Vol. 4-No. 1, Spring 1988.
MAR INE
Cliffs"
press re-
by Wally Ashby.
MAf'II"IALS
"Fossil Seals from the Miocene of Maryland"
Bugeye Times, Vol. 5-No. 1, Spring 1980.
by Dave Bohaska.
"Sea Cows of the Chesapeake Bay" by Daryl P. Damning.
Times, Vol. 9-No. 1, Spring 1984.
Bugeye
"Miocene Dugongs of Calvert Cliffs"
Times, Vol. 10-No. 1, Spring 1985.
Bugeye
by Sandy Roberts.
"Whale Fossil Added to CMM Collections"
Times, Vol. 12-No. 3, Fall 1987.
by Dave Bohaska.
"Squalodon Find at Westmoreland State Park, Virginia."
mous.
The Ecphora, Vol. 7-No. 1, Winter/Spring 1991.
Bugeye
Anony-
"SEARCH Lectures Covered Fossil Record of Marine Mammals"
Gottfried.
Bugeye Times, Vol. 16-No. 2, Summer 1991.
LAND
The
by Mike
MA"I"IALS
"Miocene Land Mammals from Calvert Cliffs"
Bugeye Times, Vol. 11-No. 1, Spring 1986.
by Ralph E. Eshelman.
"Rare Tapirus Tooth Found at the Chesapeake Ranch Club" by David
Bohaska.
The Ecphora, Vol. 5-No. 3, Fall 1989.
COLLECTING
SITES
"Big Brook Cretaceous Fossils
Vol. 2-No. 2, Spring 1986.
(chart)."
"A New Severn Locality in Prince Georges
The Ecphora, Vol. 3-No. 2, Spring 1987.
10
Anonymous.
County"
The Ecphora,
by Albert Robb.
"McDaniel Says Fossil Dig is 'Unforgettable'"
he Ecphors, Vol. 4-No. 2, Summer 1988.
by Rita McDaniel.
"Death of a Collecting
5-No. 2, Summer 1989.
The Ecphors, Vol.
Site" by Mike Ellwood.
"I Wish I Were in Dixie (The Penn Dixie Quarry in New York,That Is
... )" by Linda Heritage. The Ecphors, Vol. 5-No. 3, Fall 1989.
"Map of Eastern North Caroline with Blowup of Aurora and the Lee
Creek Mine Area." The Ecphors, Vol. 5-No. 3, Fall 1989.
"Fossiling in Los Angeles"
5-No. 4, Winter 1989-1990.
by Marilyn Force.
The Ecphors,
Vol.
"Summer Adventures Digging in Montana" by Pamela C. Platt.
Ecphors, Vol. 6-No. 4, Fall/Winter 1990.
The
"Eocene Locality Near Upper Marlboro, MO" by Bob Wiest.
Ecphors, Vol. 6-No. 4, Fall/Winter 1990.
The
"An Early Cretaceous Fossil Locality in Prince George's County,
MD" by Bob Wiest.
The Ecphors, Vol. 7-No. 1, Winter/Spring 1991.
"Eocene Site at Harleyville,
Vol. 7-No. 2, Spring 1991.
"Collecting
Hartstein.
S.C." by Ron Ison.
The Ecphors,
Mazon Creek Fossils in Illinois" by Eugene F.
The Ecphors, Vol. 8-No. I, Winter 1992.
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COKING EVENTS
(NOTE:
All CMM fossil club field trips are limited. You must
call in on the date & time shown--NOT BEFORE. You may only call
in for yourself and immediate family members, i.e. spouse and
children of a paying member.
A single member (one without spouse
or children) may call in for self and one other fossil olub
member.
Only current members of fossil club and CHM can go on
trips. Call Sandy Roberts (410-586-1791) about club membership.
Sept. 12 Saturday. Willows. Limit 20. Calvert fm. Trip Leaders:
Terry Cirrincione and Steve Brady.
All-day event; grills and
tables available for lunch. Meet at 9 a.m. at Willows beach
parking lbt (Take Willows Rd. off Rte. 261; go thru development to beach; bear left.) To get to Willows Rd .from north:
Take Rte. 260 (Ches. Beach Rd.) left off Rte. 4; go south on
Rte. 261. From south: a mile n. of Pro Frederick, go rt. off
Rte. 4 onto Rte. 263 (Plum Pt. Rd.); go left onto Rte. 261.
Call-in to Steve Brady, Mon. Aug. 31 6-9 p.m., 410-257-9113.
Sept. 26 Saturday. Northern Prince Georges, County. Limit 10.
Early Cretaceous plant site, Potomac group. Lignitized conifer Cuppressinoxylon, possible amber, dinosaur bone fragments.
Call-in (and get directions) to Steve Brady, Mon.
Sept. 14, 6-9 p.m., 410-257-9113.
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Oct. 3 ANNUAL MEETING, FIELD TRIP AND PARTY, courtesy of Larry
and Connie Smith, Matoaka Cottages, st. Leonard, MD. (301586-0269. Arrive any time to collect. Business meeting around
7 p.m.; also party (bring food and drink to share), show and
tell (bring fossils, photos, slides). Take rte. 4 south.
About 8 mi. south of Prince Frederick, go left/east at Calvert Beach Rd. sign.
Go through St. Leonard.
Look for sign
on left for "Matoaka Cottages" (about 1 mi. from Rte.4).Turn
left at sign on gravel road; park as directed.
Oct. 17 Saturday. Ranch Club. Limit 20. "Zones" 22-3 of St.
Mary's fm. Trip Leaders: Dave Bohaska and Steve Brady.
Meet
8 a.m. at front gate of Ranch Club (take 7bO/Olivet Rd. off
Rte. 4 about 3-4 mi. n. of Solomons; stay left on 760 at fork
in road; gate is off 760 on right).
Call-in to Steve Brady,
Mon. Oct. 5, 6-9 p.m., 410-257-9113.
Nov. 21 Saturday.
Liverpool Point. Paleocene Nanjemoy formation;
sharks' teeth, Turritelld mortoni casts, other vertebrate
material. Trip leader: Matt Andrea.
Meet at Rtes. 301 and 6,
corner of parking lot of Safeway Shopping Center at 9 a.m.
Call-in to Matt Andrea evenings starting after Nov. 9, 6
.)J' m. -9 p.m., 202-232-3472.
SORRY--WE WERE UNABLE TO GET A LEE CREEK FIELD TRIP (NOR DID MANY
OTHER ESTABLISHED CLUBS IN THIS REGION). CALL-IN COMPETITION FOR
THESE TRIPS HAS BECOME FIERCE AND, SOME THINK, IS NOT HANDLED ENTIRELY APPROPRIATELY. IF YOU WISH TO DISCUSS THE PROBLEM, .PLEASE
BE SURE TO COME TO THE FALL MEETING AT MATOAKA.
CMM Fossil Club
P.O. Box 97
Solomons, MD 20688
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