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: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Sunken Meadow Mbr of the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Eastover Fm (Late Miocene), and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Rushmore Mbr of the Yorktown Fm. AGE: Early Pliocene according to Ward (1993). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the Sunken Meadow 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 78273: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.01.2008

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