Where: Gloucester County, Virginia (37.3° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rushmere Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Rushmere Mbr of the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Sunken Meadow Mbr of the Yorktown Fm (Early Pliocene), and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Moore House Mbr of the Yorktown Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene according to Ward (1993). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Rushmere Mbr.
• 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 78272: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata
"Turritella alticostata" = Turritella (Turritella) alticostata Conrad 1834 turret shell | |
Serpulorbis granifera Say 1824 worm shell | |
Peristernia filicata snail | |
Busycotypus incile whelk
Busycon maximus whelk | |
Ecphora quadricostata, "Trophon tetricus" = Boreotrophon tetricus
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail
"Trophon tetricus" = Boreotrophon tetricus Conrad 1832 murex snail | |
Diodora redimicula Say 1824 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Panopea reflexa clam | |
Chama congregata Conrad 1833 jewel box | |
"Mercenaria tridacnoides" = Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides, Pleiorytis centenaria
"Mercenaria tridacnoides" = Mercenaria campechiensis tridacnoides Lamarck 1818 quahog
Pleiorytis centenaria venus clam | |
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Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata, Astarte concentrica
"Astarte undulata" = Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata Say 1824 clam
Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834 clam | |
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop | |
Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
Striarca centenaria, "Sectiarca lienosa" = Anadara (Sectiarca)
Striarca centenaria Say 1824 clam
"Sectiarca lienosa" = Anadara (Sectiarca) ark | |
Noetia incile Say 1824 clam |