Sample# 17b - Kempsville Mbr, Acredale Fm (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Virginia (36.8° N, 76.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kempsville Member (Acredale Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Collection from 4.94 m above the base of the section, from 0.61 m thick sandstone. Kempsville Member of Acredale Fm. Late Pleistocene in age, presumably from stage 5 (70-125,000 ybp).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, fine-grained, coarse, gray, blue, silty sandstone
• "nearshore marine" in stratigraphic column
• Sand, white to light brown-gray. medium to coarse, some pebbles and granules, shell material broken and abraded with some whole specimens, some in-situ specimens.
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 57706: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.12.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Exhaustive and authoritative. Includes Foraminifera, Porifera, Coelenterata, Bryozoa, Annelida, in addition to Mollusca.
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| Thecostraca | |
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Balanus improvisus Darwin 1854 barnacle | |
| Malacostraca | |
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Ocypode sp. Weber 1795 ghost crab | |
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Libinia dubia Milne-Edwards 1834 spider crab
Libinia emarginata Leach 1815 spider crab | |
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Cancer irroratus Say 1817 crab | |
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Amphipoda indet. Latreille 1816 amphipod | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turbonilla interrupta Totten 1835 snail | |
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Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell
Crepidula convexa Say 1822 slipper shell | |
"Dentimargo aureocincta" = Dentimargo aureocinctus
"Dentimargo aureocincta" = Dentimargo aureocinctus Stearns 1872 margin shell | |
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Atractodon stonei murex snail
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail
Urosalpinx cinerea Say 1822 murex snail | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana, Olivella mutica
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
"Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus, Busycon carica
"Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus Linnaeus 1758 whelk
Busycon carica Gmelin 1792 whelk | |
"Nassarius (Hinia) trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata, "Nassarius (Ilyanassa) obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta
"Nassarius (Hinia) trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata Say 1822 snail
"Nassarius (Ilyanassa) obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta Say 1822 snail | |
Colus pygmaeus, "Buccinulum undatum" = Buccinum undatum
Colus pygmaeus Gould 1841 true whelk
"Buccinulum undatum" = Buccinum undatum Linnaeus 1758 true whelk | |
"Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata
"Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata Say 1826 snail | |
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Kurtziella cerina Kurtz and Stimpson 1851 snail | |
"Terebra concava" = Strioterebrum concava, "Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra concava" = Strioterebrum concava Say 1827 auger snail
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail | |
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus, "Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail | |
"Teinostoma cryptospira" = Teinostoma umbilicatum
"Teinostoma cryptospira" = Teinostoma umbilicatum Lea 1843 snail | |
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Caecum cooperi Smith 1860 snail | |
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Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
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Modiolus squamosus mussel | |
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Musculus lateralis mussel | |
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Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
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Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
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Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop | |
"Noetia (Eontia) ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa
"Noetia (Eontia) ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa Say 1822 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
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Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam | |
"Pandora gouldiana" = Pandora (Pandora) gouldiana
"Pandora gouldiana" = Pandora (Pandora) gouldiana Say 1822 clam | |
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Barnea truncata Say 1822 clam | |
"Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta
"Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta Say 1822 clam | |
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Bornia longipes clam | |
Rangia cuneata, "Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
Rangia cuneata Sowerby 1831 clam
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam | |
"Petricola pholadiformis" = Petricolaria pholadiformis, Mercenaria campechiensis
"Petricola pholadiformis" = Petricolaria pholadiformis Lamarck 1818 venus clam
Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin 1791 quahog | |
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Dinocardium robustum Lightfoot 1786 cockle | |
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
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Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam | |
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Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
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Cyclocardia borealis Conrad 1831 clam | |
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Astarte castanea Say 1822 clam | |
| Gymnolaemata | |
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Cryptosula pallasiana Moll 1803 | |
| Mammalia | |
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Halichoerus grypus Fabricius 1791 grey seal | |
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Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus | |
| Aves | |
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Pinguinus impennis Linnaeus 1758 Great auk
Uria aalge Pontoppidan 1763 Common murre | |
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Larus hyperboreus Gunnerus 1767 glaucous gull | |
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Morus bassanus Linnaeus 1758 northern gannett | |
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Phalacrocorax auritus Lesson 1831 double-crested cormorant | |
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Branta bernicla Linnaeus 1758 brant | |
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Podiceps auritus Linnaeus 1758 horned grebe | |
| Actinopteri | |
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Sphyraena sp. Artedi 1793 barracuda | |
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Gadus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cod | |
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Pogonias sp. Lacépède 1802 | |
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Cynoscion sp. Gill 1861 | |
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Lophius sp. Linnaeus 1758 anglerfish | |
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Opsanus sp. Rafinesque 1818 toadfish | |
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Prionotus sp. Lacépède 1802 sea robin | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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Myliobatis sp. Cuvier 1816 eagle ray | |
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Carcharias sp. Rafinesque 1810 sand shark | |