Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Unit C in Ward 1992 (Fig. 11), ~2.0 m of sand. Collection from Sunken Meadow Mbr of Yorktown Fm, which overlies a thin unit of Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Fm and underlies the Rushmere Mbr of the Yorktown Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59297: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella pilsbryi Gardner 1928 turret shell | |
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Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Chesapecten clintonius scallop
Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop | |
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Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam | |
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
Mercenaria inflata quahog | |
Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
Panopea reflexa clam | |
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Astarte vaginulata clam |