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)
• 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 91890: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta Solander 1766 slipper shell | |
cf. Neverita cliftonensis moon snail | |
cf. Tudicla "sp. B" Röding 1798 snail | |
Cylichna venusta Clark 1895 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Cadulus "sp. F" Philippi 1844 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia marylandica jingle | |
Ostrea "sp. A" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea "sp. J" Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
cf. Lithophaga marylandica mussel
Brachidontes potomacensis mussel | |
Pholadomya marylandica Conrad 1842 clam | |
Panopea elongata clam | |
Teredo virginiana Clark 1895 clam | |
Pitar (Pitar) pyga venus clam
Dosiniopsis lenticularis Rogers 1838 venus clam | |
Tellina (Angulus) virginiana Clark 1895 tellin clam | |
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam
Crassatella "sp. F" Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Nuculana cliftonensis pointed nut clam
Nuculana cultelliformis pointed nut clam |