Where: Stafford County, Virginia (38.4° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 58.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquia Formation (Pamunkey Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• formation-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 91126: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 05.09.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana cliftonensis pointed nut clam | |
Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam | |
Panopea elongata clam | |
Gastrochaena "sp. A" Spengler 1783 clam | |
Pitar (Pitar) pyga venus clam
Dosiniopsis lenticularis Rogers 1838 venus clam | |
Tellina (Angulus) virginiana Clark 1895 tellin clam | |
Nemocardium "sp. C" Meek 1876 cockle | |
Pholadomya marylandica Conrad 1842 clam | |
Brachidontes potomacensis mussel | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
Ostrea alepidota oyster | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. F" Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
cf. Tudicla "sp. B" Röding 1798 snail | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella humerosa Conrad 1835 turret shell | |
Caricella "sp. A" Conrad 1835 volute
Athleta "sp. C" Conrad 1853 volute | |
cf. Cantharus "sp. A" Röding 1798 true whelk
Strepsidura "spp. D" Swainson 1840 true whelk
Dolicholatirus sp. Bellardi 1884 true whelk
Levifusus "sp. B" Conrad 1865 true whelk | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 snail | |
Epitonium virginianum wentletrap | |
Tornatellaea "sp. C" Conrad 1860 snail | |
Architectonica "sp. B" Röding 1798 sundial |