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 91127: 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 | |
Serpulorbis sp. Sasso 1827 worm shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana cliftonensis pointed nut clam | |
Brachidontes potomacensis mussel | |
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Pitar (Pitar) pyga venus clam | |
Nemocardium "sp. C" Meek 1876 cockle | |
Tellina williamsi Clark 1895 tellin clam | |
Panopea elongata clam | |
Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam |