Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.1° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Eastover Fm (Late Miocene), and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Chowan River Fm. It is unknown from which member of the Yorktown Formation that this collection is derived. AGE: Early to early-Late Pliocene on the basis of known age-range of the Yorktown Formation (Ward, 1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vokes; reposited in the FMNH

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: H.E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: FLMNH, Gainesville, FL.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80038: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008

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