Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zone 1 Member (Yorktown Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Yorktown Formation, zone 1. Contact with underlying bed is evident but not very regular. Unit is 8 ft thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, medium-grained, brown, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Material from this locality are reposited in USNM and Wagner Free Inst. Sci.

Primary reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 59293: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006

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