Sunken Meadow Pond, SE: Zanclean, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Balaenoptera sp.
Lacépède 1804
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Surry |
| Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 76.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 76.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Yorktown |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,gray sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: fossiliferous, light olive grya, fine quartz sand | |
| Environment: | peritidal |
| Geology comments: brackish, shallow, warm to temperate, nearshore | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 57906 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-01-06 06:24:40 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:46:46 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2006-04-06 06:24:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 15562. | G. R. Baum and W. H. Wheeler. 1977. Cetaceans from the St. Marys and Yorktown Formations, Surry County Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 51(3):492-504 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 14892 | L. de Verteuil and G. Norris. 1996. Dinoflagellate cyst zonation and allostratigraphy of the Chesapeake Group. Micropaleontology 42:1-25 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 27984 | S. M. Kidwell. 1997. Anatomy of extremely thin marine sequences landward of a passive-margin hinge zone: Neogene Calvert Cliffs Succession, Maryland, U.S.A. Journal of Sedimentary Research 67(2):322-340 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |