Where: Virginia (37.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 67.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Piney Point Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified, argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. E. Weems, L. E. Edwards, J. E. Osborne and A. A. Alford. 2011. An Occurrence of the Protocetid Whale "Eocetus" wardii in the Middle Eocene Piney Point Formation of Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 85(2):271-278 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 107512: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 09.04.2011, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Insecta | |
Samlandia sp. Herczek and Popov 2005 plant bug | |
Mammalia | |
Protocetidae indet. Stromer 1908 whale | |
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii Uhen 1999 whale | |
Dinophyceae | |
Deflandrea phosphoritica Eisenack 1938 | |
Palaeocystodinium golzowense Alberti 1961 | |
Hystrichokolpoma sp., Operculodinium sp., Cribroperidinium sp., Achilleodinium bioformoides, Lingulodinium machaerophorum, Thalassiphora pelagica
Hystrichokolpoma sp. Klumpp 1953
Operculodinium sp. Wall 1967
Cribroperidinium sp. Neale and Sarjeant 1962
Thalassiphora pelagica Eisenack 1954 | |
Glaphyrocysta sp. Gerlach 1961 | |
Elytrocysta sp. Stover and Evitt 1978
? Lophocysta sp. Manum 1979 | |
Heteraulacacysta sp. Drugg and Loeblich 1967
Wetzeliella sp. Eisenack 1938 |