Where: Charles County, Maryland (38.5° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 61.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nanjemoy Formation (Pamunkey Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91550: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 01.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula (Nucula) potomacensis nut clam | |
Pitar (Pitar) ovatus Rogers and Rogers 1837 venus clam | |
Tellina (Angulus) virginiana Clark 1895 tellin clam | |
Teredo virginiana Clark 1895 clam | |
"Lucina" whitei Clark 1895 clam | |
Venericardia (Venericor) potapacoensis Clark and Martin 1901 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus bellulus Clark 1895 tusk shell | |
Dentalium "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Cypraea "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Cylichna venusta Clark 1895 snail | |
Tornatellaea "sp. D" Conrad 1860 snail |