Where: Virginia (36.8° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Great Bridge Member (Acredale Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Collection from the base of section, from 0.64 m thick clay. Great Bridge Member of Acredale Fm. Late Pleistocene in age, presumably from stage 5 (70-125,000 ybp).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, green, silty, sandy claystone and unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: bulk,
• Collected by authors. Collections reside in the USNM
Primary reference: R. S. Spencer and L.D. Campbell. 1987. The fauna and paleoecology of the Late Pleistocene marine sediments of southeastern Virginia. Bulletins of American Paleontology 92(327):1-124 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 57704: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Electra monostachys Busk 1854 | |
Microporella ciliata Pallas 1766 | |
Gastropoda | |
Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell | |
"Epitonium rupicolum" = Epitonium rupicola Kurtz 1860 wentletrap
Epitonium multistriatum Say 1826 wentletrap
Epitonium angulatum Say 1831 wentletrap | |
"Littorina irrorata" = Littoraria irrorata
"Littorina irrorata" = Littoraria irrorata Say 1822 periwinkle | |
"Cerithiopsis greeni" = Cerithiopsis greenii
"Cerithiopsis greeni" = Cerithiopsis greenii Adams 1839 snail | |
"Anachis obesa" = Parvanachis obesa
"Anachis obesa" = Parvanachis obesa Adams 1845 snail | |
"Cantharus cancellarius" = Solenosteira cancellaria
"Cantharus cancellarius" = Solenosteira cancellaria Conrad 1846 true whelk | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
Abra aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
Tagelus plebeius Lightfoot 1786 clam | |
Macoma constricta, "Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica
Macoma constricta Bruguière 1792 tellin clam
"Macoma balthica" = Macoma (Macoma) balthica Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam | |
Raeta plicatella Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Bornia longipes clam | |
Paramya subovata, "Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria
Paramya subovata Conrad 1845 softshell clam
"Mya arenaria" = Mya (Arenomya) arenaria Linnaeus 1758 softshell clam | |
"Corbula swiftiana" = Caryocorbula caribaea, "Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta
"Corbula swiftiana" = Caryocorbula caribaea d'Orbigny 1845 clam
"Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta Say 1822 clam | |
Globothalamea | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |