Where: York County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 75.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Moore House Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Moore House Mbr of the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Morgarts Beach and Rushmere Mbrs of the Yorkown Fm, and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Chowan River Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene according to Ward (1993). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in member.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Harris in 1890; reposited in the UNSM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: G.D. Harris, 1890. REPOSITORY: USNM.
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1993. The G.D Harris 1890 manuscript on the stratigraphy of Miocene and Pliocene beds at Yorktown, Virginia. Paleontological Research Institute Special Publication 20:1-118 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78260: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
Chesacardium acutilaqueatum Conrad 1839 cockle | |
Gastropoda | |
Eulima sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata Conrad 1834 turret shell | |
"Crucibulum constrictum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum, "Crepidula spinosa" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus
"Crucibulum constrictum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum Conrad 1842 slipper shell
"Crepidula spinosa" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
Epitonium sp. Bolten 1798 wentletrap | |
Peristernia filicata snail | |
Mitrella communius snail | |
Oliva canaliculata olive snail | |
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail | |
Cylichna cylindrus snail | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle |