Islington Landing, Zone 24 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Richmond County, Virginia (37.9° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Windmill Point Member (Saint Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, silty sandstone
• sand; silty, fine to very fine
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 71637: 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 | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella subvariabilis
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Busycotypus sp. whelk | |
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Bivalvia | |
Dallarca idonea Conrad 1832 clam | |
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop | |
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam | |
"Lirophora alveata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) alveata Conrad 1831 venus clam
Mercenaria tetrica Conrad 1838 quahog | |
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Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam |