Metompkin Island (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Accomack County, Virginia (37.8° N, 75.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithology not reported

• ocean beach

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. O. Handley and C. P. Patton. 1947. Wild Mammals of Virginia 1-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 73486: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus
Odobenus rosmarus Linnaeus 1758 walrus
 Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
"Eschrichtius glaucus" = Eschrichtius robustus
"Eschrichtius glaucus" = Eschrichtius robustus Lilljeborg 1861 gray whale