Also known as Claremont

Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• 1.6 m mabove Isognomon maxillata interval, 7.9 m above the base of the cliff, Placopecten clintonius and Pterygocytheris inexpectata zones

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; fine-grained, yellow sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 57908: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.01.2006

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