Essex Mill, Zone 24 (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as Essex Millpond
Where: Essex County, Virginia (37.9° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Windmill Point Member (Saint Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green, silty sandstone
• sand, very fine, silty, olive-gray
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 71632: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex
"Terebra simplex" = Laevihastula simplex Conrad 1830 auger snail | |
Conus deluvianus Green 1830 cone shell | |
Bulliopsis quadrata Conrad 1830 snail
Nassarius (Tritiaria) peralta Conrad 1868 snail | |
Busycotypus coronatum Conrad 1840 whelk
Busycotypus rugosum Conrad 1843 whelk | |
Buccinofusus parilis Conrad 1832 snail | |
Urosalpinx subrusticus d'Orbigny 1852 murex snail | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella subvariabilis
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Bivalvia | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam | |
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop | |
Crassostrea sp. Sacco 1897 oyster | |
Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam | |
Glossus santamaria Ward 1992 clam | |
Mactrodesma subponderosa d'Orbigny 1852 clam
Leptomactra delumbis Conrad 1832 clam | |
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog
"Lirophora alveata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) alveata Conrad 1831 venus clam | |
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Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Astarte perplana Conrad 1840 clam |