Mattaponi River - at Bowling Green Park (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26366

Where: Caroline County, Virginia (38.1° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 61.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Potapaco Member (Nanjemoy Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• 4 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, gray, green, silty sandstone

• Sand, olive-gray (5 Y 4/1), micaceous, glauconitic, fine, silty; molds of Venericardia common

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 60872: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 26.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia sp.
Venericardia sp. Lamarck 1801 clam