Mount Pleasant, Mollusk Zone 6 (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 6
Environment/lithology: marine; glauconitic, phosphatic, gray, yellow sandstone
• sand; very fine, well-sorted, grayish yellow, with sand-sized phosphate and glauconite, very shelly. Bedding obscured by large number of large bivalves, principally Chesapecten. Bone and phosphate along lower contact.
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 71624: 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 | |
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Turritella pilsbryi Gardner 1928 turret shell | |
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Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop
Placopecten clintonius Say 1824 scallop | |
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Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam | |
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Panopea reflexa clam | |
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Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
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Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
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Mercenaria inflata quahog | |
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Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
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Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
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Astarte vaginulata clam
Astarte deltoidea clam | |