Pamunkey River - 0.5 mile east of Wickham Crossing (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26337

Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 59.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Piscataway Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• 2.5 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

• Sand, olive-gray (5 Y 4/1), clayey, fine, glauconitic, poorly sorted; many small bivalves and Ostrea

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 60967: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 28.05.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Testudines - Pancheloniidae
"Osteopygis roundsi n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi
"Osteopygis roundsi n. sp." = Euclastes wielandi Hay 1908 turtle
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp.
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster