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: Probably 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 multiple facies of the Moore House Mbr.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone
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 78268: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Crepidula spinosa" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus, "Crucibulum constrictum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum
"Crepidula spinosa" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
"Crucibulum constrictum" = Crucibulum (Dispotaea) constrictum Conrad 1842 slipper shell | |
Lunatia interna moon snail
Sinum fragilis Conrad 1830 moon snail
"Lunatia heros" = Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail | |
Nassarius sp. Duméril 1806 snail | |
Busycotypus incile whelk
Busycon maximus whelk | |
Lirosoma sulcata snail
Lirosoma sp. snail | |
Scaphella sp., "Scaphella obtusa" = Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832 volute
"Scaphella obtusa" = Aurinia (Volutifusus) obtusa Emmons 1858 volute | |
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail | |
Serpulorbis granifera Say 1824 worm shell | |
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata Conrad 1834 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia laevis Say 1824 clam | |
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |
Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
Dosinia acetabulum Conrad 1832 venus clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam |