Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 75.2° W)

When: Yorktown Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• the uppermost Miocene bed around Claremont, fossils taken from wall of pit and picked up from weathered-out material scattered about the floor of the pit

Environment/lithology: marine; marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• one finger (P. herbstii);

Collected by W.C. Mansfield, (1/250) in 22, 1922; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 150416: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 08.09.2013

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