Where: Isle of Wight County, Virginia (37.0° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yorktown Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Eastover Fm (Late Miocene), and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Chowan River Fm. It is unknown from which member of the Yorktown Formation that this collection is derived. AGE: Early to early-Late Pliocene on the basis of known age-range of the Yorktown Formation (Ward, 1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, medium-grained, yellow sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Smith in 1925; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: B. Smith, 1925. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca.
Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 79245: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.02.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula spinosium slipper shell
Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum Conrad 1842 slipper shell | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Ptychosalpinx fossulata true whelk
Ptychosalpinx multirugata true whelk
Ptychosalpinx laqueata true whelk | |
Lirosoma sulcosa Conrad 1830 snail
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815 snail | |
Trigonostoma sp. Blainville 1827 snail | |
Urosalpinx sp. Stimpson 1865 murex snail
""Trophon" tetricus" = Boreotrophon tetricus Conrad 1832 murex snail
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail | |
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832 volute | |
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata Conrad 1834 turret shell | |
Calliostoma philothropus top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Yoldia laevis Say 1824 clam | |
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
Panopea reflexa clam | |
Myochama sp. Stutchbury 1830 clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
"Agriopoma sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus, Chione cancellata, "Dosinia (Dosinidia) acetabulum" = Dosinia acetabulum
"Agriopoma sayana" = Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam
"Dosinia (Dosinidia) acetabulum" = Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam | |
Mulinia congregata clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam |