Belvedere Beach, Eocene (Paleocene to of the United States)

Also known as Palaeophis virginianus type locality

Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 60.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Late/Upper Paleocene to Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 48.6 Ma)

• "Eocene deposits of the Aquia Creek stage" - NOTE: Powars et al. (2015) state that the 'Eocene' Aquia Creek stage has subsequently been divided (and re-dated) into the late Paleocene-early Eocene Aquia Formation and the early Eocene Nanjemoy Formation. This fossil could therefore be from either.

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone

• Coastal plain
• No original description, as fossils were collected from beach, but general lithology of both candidate formations (from Powars et al., 2015) are as follows: "fine, glauconitic quartz sand, variable amounts of clay and silt, shelly, micaceous".

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. G. Lynn in 1933; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. Lynn. 1934. A new snake Paleophis virginianus from the Eocene of Virginia. John Hopkins University Studies in Geology 11:245-249 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105244: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 18.02.2011

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Taxonomic list

• Originally added by Carrie Cross Bio 334

•P. virginianus types "lay on beach within short distance of each other"

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Reptilia
 Squamata - Palaeophiidae
Paleophis virginianus n. sp.
Paleophis virginianus n. sp. Lynn 1934 snake
USNM 13640 and 13641 (holotype), two posterior thoracic vertebrae