Grimes Landing (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Piping Tree Ferry, Locality 45, Stop 17

Where: King William County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 73.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: D. P. Domning. 1984. Fossil sirenians from the Pamunkey River, Virginia. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Outcropping Tertiary Beds in the Pamunkey River Region, Central Virginia Coastal Plain 224-225 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66065: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sulidae indet.1 Reichenbach 1849 booby
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Miocepphus mcclungi1 Wetmore 1940 auk
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Dugongidae
"Metaxytherium calvertense" = Metaxytherium crataegense
"Metaxytherium calvertense" = Metaxytherium crataegense Simpson 1932 dugong
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
"Amphicyon cf. idoneus" = Cynelos idoneus3
"Amphicyon cf. idoneus" = Cynelos idoneus3 Matthew 1924 bear-dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Archaeohippus sp.3 Gidley 1906 anchitheriine horse
 Cetacea -
Rhabdosteus sp.2 Cope 1867 toothed whale
 Cetacea - Platanistidae
Zarhachis sp.2 Cope 1868 toothed whale
perhaps reworked