Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 73.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Plum Point Member (Calvert Formation), Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, phosphatic, brown, green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71654: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

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