Where: Charles County, Maryland (38.5° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 58.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquia Formation (Pamunkey Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 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 91889: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella humerosa Conrad 1835 turret shell | |
Strepsidura "spp." Swainson 1840 true whelk | |
Caricella "sp. A" Conrad 1835 volute | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. F" Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
Brachidontes potomacensis mussel | |
Pitar (Pitar) pyga venus clam
Dosiniopsis lenticularis Rogers 1838 venus clam | |
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam
Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam | |
Nuculana cliftonensis pointed nut clam |