Locality 504 (Windmill Point Beds, St Marys Fm): Late/Upper Miocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Chesaconcavus rossi
Zullo 1992
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Essex |
Coordinates: | 37.9° North, 76.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.0° North, 75.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | St Marys | Member: | Windmill Point |
Regional section: | Shattuck | Regional bed: | 24 | ||
Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Dunnsville,Essex; Upper Miocene (Tortonian), Windmill Point beds, St Marys Formation, Zone 24. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992). |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | sandstone |
Lithology description: Sandstone | |
Environment: | offshore |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive |
Geology comments: Back-barrier, and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sandy intervals). |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Probably collected from individuals specimens. Collection of Zullo | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Cirripdia. Not complete with respect to molluscan fauna. Type material is reposited in USNM, ANSP, and University of North Carolina, Wilmington. |
Metadata
Also known as: | Dunnsville | ||
Database number: | 51720 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-14 12:06:33 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-14 12:06:33 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13777. | 1% 2380 | D. B. Kline. 1997. Systematics and biostratigraphy of Miocene Cirripedia of the Chesapeake Group; Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unpublished Masters thesis, University of North Carolina, Wilmington [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |