Wingard Loc. 098. Potomac River below Paspotansa Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 58.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paspotansa Member (Aquia Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, micaceous, black, green, silty sandstone

• Sand, olive-black (5 Y 2/1), silty, fine, micaceous; many Turritella, small gastropods common

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: G. L. Wingard. 1993. A detailed taxonomy of Upper Cretaceous and Lower Tertiary Crassatellidae in the Eastern United States - an example of the nature of extinction at the boundary. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1535 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 226587: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 16.07.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus alaeformis
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam