YPM Loc. A-4615 [Great Bridge Mbr, Acredale Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Virginia Beach County, Virginia (36.7° N, 76.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Great Bridge Member (Acredale Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Great Bridge Mbr, of the Acredale Fm, which underlies the Norfolk Mbr. AGE: Late Pleistocene according to Spencer and Campbell (1987). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within member.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Fine-medium sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Richards; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: H.G. Richards. REPOSITORY: YPM.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80048: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008

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Taxonomic list

• TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Spencer and Campbell (1987) [PBDB Ref# 15525].
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia limatula Say 1831 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam