Where: Prince George County, Virginia (37.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 76.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rushmere Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 4 feet thick
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, medium-grained, 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 60667: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 19.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |
"Mercenaria tridacnoides" = Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides
"Mercenaria tridacnoides" = Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides Lamarck 1818 quahog |