Also known as Belvedere Beach, Potamac River (Virginia) fauna

Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 58.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Paspotansa Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• Underlain by Piscataway Member (upper Paleocene) of the Aquia Formation, overlain by Marlboro Clay (upper Paleocene). May be overlain by Potapaco Member of the Najemoy Formation (lower Eocene) if the latter is eroded.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: interdistributary bay; lithified, micaceous, shelly/skeletal, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion, dissolution traces

Reposited in the UNSM

• Description of museum reposited specimen, other taxa collected and observed in the field are listed in the text

Primary reference: L. W. Ward and T.R. Waller. 1988. A new species of Pulvinites (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from the upper Paleocene Paspotansa Member of the Aquia Formation in Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 62(1):51-55 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35062: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.10.2003, edited by Mark Uhen

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