Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 76.3° 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 FLMNH
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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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 80040: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam
"Lucinisca cribarius" = Lucina (Lucinisca) clam
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Chesacardium sp. Ward 1992 cockle | |
Pseudochama corticosa jewel box | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin 1791 quahog
Dosinia acetabulm venus clam | |
Caryocorbula conradi Gardner 1944 clam | |
Kuphus calamus clam | |
Pandora (Clidophora) sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Panopea goldfussi clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Marvacrassatella sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1987 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834 clam | |
Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Placopecten clintonius, Chesapecten madisonius, Chesapecten jeffersonius, Carolinapecten eboreus, Chlamys decemaria
Placopecten clintonius Say 1824 scallop
Chesapecten madisonius Say 1824 scallop
Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop
Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula
"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula Deshayes 1831 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Isognomon maxilliatus oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail | |
"Arene tricarinata" = Marevalvata tricarinata
"Arene tricarinata" = Marevalvata tricarinata Stearns 1872 snail | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius
"Natica (Naticarius) sp." = Naticarius Dumeril 1806 moon snail | |
Ecphora sp. Conrad 1843 murex snail | |
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840 turrid | |
Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell
Crepidula radiata slipper shell | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia, Turritella invariabilis
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
Turritella invariabilis turret shell |