Rickahock, Zone 14-16 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: King and Queen County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 74.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 12

•Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

Environment/lithology: coastal; diatomaceous, argillaceous siltstone

• silty, clayey, blocky, diatomaceous

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71627: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bacillariophyceae
 Rhaphoneidales - Rhaphoneidaceae
 Coscinodiscales - Heliopeltaceae
Actinoptychus virginicus Grunow 1883 diatom
 Bacillariales - Bacillariaceae