Where: Henrico County, Virginia (37.5° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 76.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rushmere Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• 10 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60660: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 19.05.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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