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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Bivalvia | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella plebeia plebeia Ward 1992 turret shell | |
Ecphora kochi Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte cobhamensis Ward 1992 clam
Astarte rappahannockensis Gardner 1943 clam | |
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
Lirophora vredenburgi Ward 1992 venus clam
Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog | |
Euloxa latisulcata clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
Ostrea compressirostra geraldjohnsoni Ward 1992 oyster | |
Placopecten princepoides Emmons 1858 scallop
Carolinapecten urbannaensis Mansfield 1928 scallop | |
Rasia arata Say 1824 ark | |
Costaglycymeris mixoni Ward 1992 clam | |
Dallarca carolinensis | |
Dallarca carolinensis carolinensis Ward 1992 |