Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 39.7° N, 70.8° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Calvert Beach Member (Calvert Formation), Serravallian (13.8 - 11.6 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 12

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•Zones 14-16A are regarded as Serravallian in age.

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, brown, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone

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 71642: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

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