Pamunkey River - old Newcastle Bridge (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26406

Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 66.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piney Point Formation (Pamunkey Group), Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• 2.5 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, burrowed, medium-grained, glauconitic, gray, green, calcareous sandstone

• Sand, light-greenish gray (5 GY 7/1), calcareous, medium, quartz, glauconitic; mollusks abundant, Cubitostrea sellaeformis common; lower contact uneven, burrows extending down into the underlying unit...

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60765: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 22.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Cubitostrea sellaeformis
Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster