Where: Prince Georges County, Maryland (39.0° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 57.7° 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 99283: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 04.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Venericardia (Venericor) regia Conrad 1865 clam |