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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Bivalvia | |
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Chama congregata Conrad 1833 jewel box | |
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Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
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Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |