Sample# 17a - 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 5.55 m above the base of the section, from 1.37 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; lithified, fine-grained, medium, pebbly, brown, yellow, argillaceous, carbonaceous sandstone

• "nearshore marine" in stratigraphic column
• Sandy, light brown to brown-yellow, fine to medium, cross-bedded, lenses and stringers of peaty clay, lenses of granules and pebbles, ghosts of bivalves, disarticulated and oriented convex up.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

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 57707: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive and authoritative. Includes Foraminifera, Porifera, Coelenterata, Bryozoa, Annelida, in addition to Mollusca.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam