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
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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Yoldia limatula Say 1831 clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
Pitar morrhuanus Dall 1902 venus clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea
"Macoma calcarea" = Macoma (Macoma) calcarea Gmelin 1792 tellin clam |