Elsing Green, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: King William County, Virginia (37.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 75.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Claremont Manor Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• stratigraphy from Ward (1992)

Environment/lithology: offshore; fine-grained, gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

• Back-barrier, and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sandy intervals). Offshore.
• sand, fine, greenish gray, clay, pebbles, bone, teeth, phosphate along lower contact

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: F. C. Whitmore. 1984. Stratigraphy and paleontology of the outcropping Tertiary beds. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Outcropping Tertiary Beds in the Pamunkey River Region, Central Virginia Coastal Plain 227-231 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 70531: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.03.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Balaenopteridae indet.
Balaenopteridae indet. Gray 1864 rorqual
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus fraterna
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam