Where: Prince George County, Virginia (37.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 61.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nanjemoy Formation (Pamunkey Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91121: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Architectonica ianthinae sundial | |
Ficus affinis Van Winkle 1919 fig shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cubitostrea (Cubitostrea) divaricata Lea 1833 oyster |