Cobham Wharf, Mollusk Zone 5 (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Rushmere Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 5

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, glauconitic, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• sand, shelly, fine, slightly phosphatic. Large bivalves very abundant

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 71621: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama congregata
Chama congregata Conrad 1833 jewel box
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea compressirostra, Conradostrea sculpturata
Ostrea compressirostra Say 1824 oyster
subspecies raveneli
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten madisonius
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop