Mount Pleasant, Zone 26 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 75.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 7
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone
• sand; very fine, well-sorted, grayish yellow, very shelly
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 71623: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
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Ecphora kochi Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
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Carolinapecten urbannaensis Mansfield 1928 scallop
Placopecten princepoides Emmons 1858 scallop | |
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Costaglycymeris mixoni Ward 1992 clam | |
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Rasia arata Say 1824 ark | |
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Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
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Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
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Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog
Lirophora vredenburgi Ward 1992 venus clam | |
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Euloxa latisulcata clam | |
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Astarte rappahannockensis Gardner 1943 clam
Astarte cobhamensis Ward 1992 clam | |
| Dallarca carolinensis | |
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