Where: Southampton County, Virginia (36.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 75.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)
• or Yorktown Formation
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: found in the river bed
Primary reference: L. Dewaele, C. M. Peredo, P. Meyvisch and S. Louwye. 2018. Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. Royal Society Open Science 5(172437):1-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 192081: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.03.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Virginiaphoca magurai n. gen. n. sp.
Virginiaphoca magurai n. gen. n. sp. Dewaele et al. 2018 seal |