Where: Nansemond County, Virginia (36.8° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: silty-sand facies Member (Norfolk Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, pebbly, silty sandstone and siltstone
Primary reference: N. K. Coch. 1971. Geology of the Newport News South and Bowers Hill quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations 28:1-26 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7109: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Crepidula convexa Say 1822 slipper shell | |
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Busycon carica, "Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus
Busycon carica Gmelin 1792 whelk
"Busycon canaliculatum" = Busycotypus canaliculatus Linnaeus 1758 whelk | |
"Nassarius trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata, "Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta
"Nassarius trivittatus" = Ilyanassa trivittata Say 1822 snail
"Nassarius obsoletus" = Ilyanassa obsoleta Say 1822 snail | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Pitar morrhuanna" = Pitar morrhuanus, Mercenaria mercenaria
"Pitar morrhuanna" = Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog | |
"Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta
"Corbula contracta" = Caryocorbula contracta Say 1822 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark |