Sample# 17d - Upper Norfolk Mbr, Acredale Fm: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
R category
Rotaliidae
Ammonia limbatobeccarii
R category
Ammonia sobrina
R category
Ammonia tepida
R category
Bolivinidae
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
R category
Eponididae
Poroeponides lateralis
S category
Poroeponides cf. repanda
R category
Tubothalamea - Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Massilina sp. Schlumberger 1893
R category
Quinqueloculina compta
C category
Quinqueloculina jugosa
C category
Quinqueloculina poeyana
S category
Quinqueloculina seminula
C category
Quinqueloculina lamarckiana d'Orbigny 1839
C category
Elphidiidae
Elphidium articulatum
C category
Elphidium brooklynense
R category
Elphidium clavatum
C category
Elphidium galvestonense
S category
Elphidium gunteri
S category
Elphidium tumidum
S category
Elphidium poeyanum d'Orbigny 1948
S category
recombined as Elphidium latispatium pontium
Elphidium discoidale d'Orbigny 1839
C category
Haynesinidae
Haynesina germanica
S category
Buliminidae
Buliminella cf. elegantissima
R category
Globigerinidae
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826
R category
Nodosariata - Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Globulina sp. d'Orbigny 1839
R category
Nodosariata - Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Lagena sp. Walker and Boys 1784
R category
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Nonionidae
Nonion sp. Monfort 1808
R category
Nonionella atlantica
S category
Nonionella sp. Cushman 1926
R category
Protelphidium tisburyense
R category
Globothalamea - Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Buccella depressa
R category
Rosalina floridana
S category
Hanzawaia concentrica
S category
unclassified
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
R category
Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Cliona sp.
C category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Astrangia danae Agassiz 1850
S category
Polychaeta - Spionida - Spionidae
Polydora sp. Bosk 1801
C category
Polychaeta - Serpulimorpha
Hydroides dianthus
C category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Electridae
Electra monostachys (Busk 1854)
S category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Membraniporidae
Membranipora tenuis
C category
Cupuladria owenii
R category
Cupuladria biporosa Canu and Bassler 1923
R category
Discoporella umbellata (Defrance 1823)
R category
Subspecies: Discoporella umbellata depressa
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Hippoporidridae
Hippoporidra calcarea (Smitt 1873)
R category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cribrilinidae
Membraniporella cf. petasus
S category
Cribrilina punctata
R category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Bitectiporidae
Hippoporina porosa
R category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Microporellidae
Microporella ciliata (Pallas 1766)
S category
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Schizoporellidae
Schizoporella errata
C category
Stephanosella cornuta
S category
synonym of Multiporina
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Cryptosulidae
Cryptosula pallasiana (Moll 1803)
R category
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula proxima Say 1820
C category
recombined as Nucula (Nucula) proxima
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus squamosus
C category
Ischadium recurvum (Rafinesque 1820)
R category
Geukensia demissa (Dilwyn 1817)
R category
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea virginica (Gmelin 1791)
S category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845
S category
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara transversa (Say 1822)
A category
recombined as Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Noetia (Eontia) ponderosa (Say 1822)
S category
recombined as Eontia ponderosa
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella lunulata (Conrad 1834)
S category
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis directus (Conrad 1844)
A category
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Pandoridae
Pandora trilineata Say 1822
C category
recombined as Pandora (Pandora) trilineata
Pandora gouldiana Say 1822
R category
recombined as Pandora (Pandora) gouldiana
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Cumingia tellinoides (Conrad 1831)
A category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Tellina texana Dall 1900
C category
recombined as Angulus texanus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia lateralis (Say 1822)
S category
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin 1791)
A category
Pitar morrhuana (Dall 1902)
S category
recombined as Pitar morrhuanus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Kelliidae
Bornia longipes
C category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pholadidae
Barnea truncata (Say 1822)
R category
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula contracta Say 1822
A category
recombined as Caryocorbula contracta
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Divalinga quadrisulcata (d'Orbigny 1846)
C category
Gastropoda - Opisthobranchia - Cylichnidae
Acteocina canaliculata (Say 1826)
A category
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crepidula convexa Say 1822
C category
Crepidula plana Say 1822
A category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Eupleura caudata (Say 1822)
C category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cystiscidae
Granulina ovuliformis (d'Orbigny 1842)
R category
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycon carica (Gmelin 1792)
R category
Busycon contrarium Conrad 1840
R category
Busycon canaliculatum (Linnaeus 1758)
R category
recombined as Busycotypus canaliculatus
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Columbellidae
Anachis lafresnayi (Fischer and Bernardi 1857)
R category
recombined as Cotonopsis (Cotonopsis) lafresnayi
Gastropoda - Cerithiopsidae
Cerithiopsis greeni (Adams 1839)
R category
recombined as Cerithiopsis greenii
Gastropoda - Epitoniidae
Epitonium rupicolum (Kurtz 1860)
S category
recombined as Epitonium rupicola
Epitonium angulatum (Say 1831)
S category
Epitonium humphreysii (Kiener 1838)
R category
Epitonium multistriatum (Say 1826)
S category
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Diastoma alternatum (Say 1822)
R category
recombined as Bittiolum alternatum
Mammalia - Cetacea
Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Ray et al. 1968 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia
Coordinates: 36.8° North, 76.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Acredale Member:Norfolk
Local section:Womack Pit Local bed:2.93 m
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Collection from 2.93 m above base of section, from 0.73 m thick sandstone. Upper part of Norfolk Mbr. Late Pleistocene in age, presumably from stage 5 (70-125,000 ybp).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray,blue unlithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Silty sand, gray to blue-gray, fine to medium, serpulid worm-tube and bryozon encrusting bioherm, fossiliferous with in situ gastropods and pelecypods
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "Open marine" in stratigraphic column; "transitional marine faunas" in text., transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Articulated whole bodies:many
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UNSM
Collection method comments: Collected by authors. Collections reside in the USNM
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive and authoritative. Includes Foraminifera, Porifera, Coelenterata, Bryozoa, Annelida, in addition to Mollusca.
Metadata
Database number:57702
Authorizer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen Enterer:A. Hendy, M. Uhen
Modifier:B. Shipps Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-12-19 20:54:29 Last modified:2017-02-26 14:35:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-12-19 20:54:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15525. R. S. Spencer and L.D. Campbell. 1987. The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 92(327):1-124 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

16867 C. E. Ray, A. Wetmore, D. H. Dunkle and P. Drez. 1968. Fossil vertebrates from the marine Pleistocene of southeastern Virginia. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 153(3):1-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]