Bowlers Wharf, Zone 26 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Essex County, Virginia (37.8° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 75.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 7
Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone
• sand; very fine, silty, very fossiliferous, dominated by Spisula rappahanockensis
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71536: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Bivalvia | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella plebeia plebeia Ward 1992 turret shell | |
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Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk | |
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Bulliopsis quadrata Conrad 1830 snail | |
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail | |
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Ecphora kochi Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
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Lirophora vredenburgi Ward 1992 venus clam
Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog | |
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Spisula rappahannockensis Gardner 1944 clam
Leptomactra delumbis Conrad 1832 clam | |
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Chesacardium laqueatum blountense Mansfield 1932 cockle | |
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Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
| Dallarca carolinensis | |
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Dallarca carolinensis carolinensis Ward 1992 | |