Where: Hanover County County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 66.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Piney Point Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• The sample was taken 3 ft (0.9 m) below the concretion layer in the Piney Point. Lower sample of the Piney Point.

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithology not reported

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by L. W. Ward; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1984. Sporomorph Correlation and Paleoecology, Piney Point and Old Church Formations, Pamunkey River, Virginia. In L. W. Ward, K. Krafft (eds.), Stratigraphy and paleontology of the outcropping Tertiary beds in the Pamunkey River region, central Virginia Coastal Plain - Guidebook for Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 1984 field trip 135-151 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 231682: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 28.08.2023

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