UNCW Loc. Z-952 - Avery Pit [Yorktown Fm] (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: James City County, Virginia (37.4° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 75.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Yorktown Formation, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Lower Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the lower Yorktown Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified lithology not reported

• LITHOLOGY: Not described in text. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimen.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Zullo

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: V. Zullo. REPOSITORY: University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW).

Primary reference: V. A. Zullo. 1992. Revision of the balanid barnacle genus Concavus Newman, 1982, with the description of a new subfamily, two new genera, and eight new species. The Paleontological Society Memoir 27:1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160350: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquate nomenclature, but species resolution identifications.
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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Chesaconcavus proteus
Chesaconcavus proteus Conrad 1834 barnacle