M 849: Ypresian, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia (Calorhadia) potomacensis
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana improcera
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Aequipecten perplanus (Morton 1833)
recombined as Pecten (Pecten) perplanus
subspecies "Aequipecten perplanus centrotus"
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella informal sp. P Lamarck 1799
Gardner 1933
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Caroline
Coordinates: 38.2° North, 77.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.6° North, 61.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Ypresian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Pamunkey Formation:Nanjemoy
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:99207
Authorizer:J. Sessa Enterer:L. Eccles, U. Smith
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-11-02 12:07:27 Last modified:2022-04-27 03:37:04
Access level:the public Released:2010-11-02 12:07:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

11845. K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

35951 J. Gardner. 1933. The Midway Group of Texas. The University of Texas Bulletin, Publication Bureau of Economic Geology (3301) [J. Sessa/L. Eccles]
11846 K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1966. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene Mollusks of the Southern and Eastern United States Part II. Gastropoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:471-1057 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Sessa]