Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONSVOLUME 121, NUMBER 12 Cfjarles; B. anb iWarp ^aux Malcotti^esiearcf) jFunb THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF WAILES BLUFF AND LANGLEYS BLUFF, MARYLAND (With One Plate) BYS. F. BLAKE U. S. Department of Agriculture (Publication 4129) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AUGUST 11. 1953 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONSVOLUME 121, NUMBER 12 Cljarles; JB. anb ifHarp ^aux OTalcottl^egearcl) Jf unb THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF WAILES BLUFF AND LANGLEYS BLUFF, MARYLAND (With One Plate) BYS. F. BLAKE U. S. Depa
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONSVOLUME 121, NUMBER 12 Cfjarles; B. anb iWarp ^aux Malcotti^esiearcf) jFunb THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF WAILES BLUFF AND LANGLEYS BLUFF, MARYLAND (With One Plate) BYS. F. BLAKE U. S. Department of Agriculture (Publication 4129) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AUGUST 11. 1953 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONSVOLUME 121, NUMBER 12 Cljarles; JB. anb ifHarp ^aux OTalcottl^egearcl) Jf unb THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF WAILES BLUFF AND LANGLEYS BLUFF, MARYLAND (With One Plate) BYS. F. BLAKE U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Publication 4129) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION AUGUST 11, 1953 BALTIMOEE, MD., V. B. A. Cfjarlejs 2S. anb iHarp *^aux SMaUott B^esicarcfj ifunb THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF WAILES BLUFFAND LANGLEYS BLUFF, MARYLAND By S. F. Blake U. S. Department of Agriculture (With One Plate) The most important Pleistocene locality in Maryland is Wailes Bluff,near Cornfield Harbor, on the eastern bank of the Potomac Riverabout 3 miles above its mouth, in St. Marys County. In the Pliocene-Pleistocene volume of the Maryland Geological Survey (Shattucket al., 1906) it was referred, like all the other fossiliferous localities ofmarine origin in Maryland, to the Talbot formation, at that time re-garded as the youngest of the Pleistocene formations found in theState. Since that time a younger formation, the Pamlico, defined by aterrace 25 feet above sea level (that of the restricted Talbot formationbeing at 42 feet), has been recognized on the Atlantic coast, and somewriters hav
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