Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Unit C in Ward 1992 (Fig. 11), ~2.0 m of sand. Collection from Sunken Meadow Mbr of Yorktown Fm, which overlies a thin unit of Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Fm and underlies the Rushmere Mbr of the Yorktown Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59297: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006

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