Aquia Formation
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The Aquia Formation is a Paleocene
fossil site located near the Potomac River
in Maryland and Virginia.
Paleocene
The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "early recent", is a geologic epoch that lasted from about . It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic Era...
fossil site located near the Potomac River
Potomac River
The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. The river is approximately long, with a drainage area of about 14,700 square miles...
in Maryland and Virginia.
Sharks
- Carcharias hopei
- Cretolamna
- Otodus obliquusOtodus obliquusOtodus obliquus is an extinct mackerel shark which lived during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, approximately about 60 to 37.5 million years ago.-Known physiology:This shark is known from the fossil teeth and fossilized vertebral centra...
- Paleohypotodus rutoti
- Striatolamia striata
- Squalus