Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 58.3° 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 91860: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
Panopea elongata clam | |
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam |