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: Clay, 6.5 ft thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray, green 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 79754: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.03.2008

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