Where: Essex County, Virginia (37.7° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 75.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Windmill Point Member (St Mary's Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the Windmill Point Mbr of the St Mary's Fm, Chesapeake Group. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From base of cliff.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collected by Jones; reposited in the MCZ
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: Carol Jones, ~1970's. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard. FIDELITY: High ecologic fidelity.
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 79752: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
Clypeasteroida indet. Agassiz 1836 sand dollar | |
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula taphria Dall 1898 nut clam | |
Yoldia laevis Say 1824 clam | |
Saccella concentrica pointed nut clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam | |
Hiatella arctica Linnaeus 1767 clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
"Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
"Lirophora latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam | |
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella)
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis
"Caryocorbula inaequalis" = Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam | |
Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
Pandora (Clidiophora) crassidens Conrad 1838 clam | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
Chesapecten sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1975 scallop | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium attenuatum Say 1824 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata, Crepidula plana, Crepidula fornicata
"Crucibulum (Crucibulum) costatum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata Say 1820 slipper shell
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Turritella subvariabilis, "Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
Turritella subvariabilis d'Orbigny 1852 turret shell
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell | |
Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail | |
Ecphora sp. Conrad 1843 murex snail
Urosalpinx rusticus Conrad 1839 murex snail | |
"Siphonalia marylandica" = Mariafusus marylandica
"Siphonalia marylandica" = Mariafusus marylandica Martin 1904 snail | |
Nassarius peralta Conrad 1868 snail | |
Busycon coronatum whelk | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod |