USGS Loc. 25309 - Urbana Creek [Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Fm] (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Kline Loc. 502

Where: Middlesex County, Virginia (37.6° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 74.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Urbana Creek, Middlesex; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Formation. From beach to 1.0 m above beach.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone

• Open shelf conditions
• Sandstone, with heavily calcified barnacle/mollusk shell hashes.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected from individuals specimens.

Primary reference: D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51719: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 14.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Cirripdia. Not complete with respect to molluscan fauna. Type material is reposited in USNM, ANSP, and University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Balanidae
Paraconcavus neusensis, Chesaconcavus sp., Chesaconcavus myosulcatus, Chesaconcavus proteus
Paraconcavus neusensis Zullo and Miller 1986 barnacle
Chesaconcavus sp. Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus myosulcatus Zullo 1992 barnacle
Chesaconcavus proteus Conrad 1834 barnacle