Bowlers Wharf, Zone 26: Messinian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella plebeia
Say 1824
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recombined as Mariacolpus plebeia | ||||||||||
subspecies plebeia | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Bulliopsis quadrata
(Conrad 1830)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Busycotypus coronatum
(Conrad 1840)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Terebridae
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Terebra simplex
Conrad 1830
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recombined as Laevihastula simplex | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Muricidae
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Ecphora kochi
Ward and Gilinsky 1988
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chesapecten middlesexensis
(Mansfield 1936)
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subspecies middlesexensis | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Teredinidae
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Kuphus fistula
(Lea 1843)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Lirophora vredenburgi
Ward 1992
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Mercenaria druidi
Ward 1992
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Leptomactra delumbis
(Conrad 1832)
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Spisula rappahannockensis
(Gardner 1944)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Chesacardium laqueatum
(Conrad 1830)
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subspecies blountense | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Hiatellida
- Hiatellidae
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Panopea goldfussii
Wagner 1839
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Marvacrassatella urbannaensis
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unclassified
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Dallarca carolinensis
(Conrad 1849)
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recombined as Barbatia carolinensis | ||||||||||
subspecies carolinensis | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Essex |
Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 76.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.9° North, 75.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
Stage: | Messinian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Messinian | ||
Age range of interval: | 7.24600 - 5.33300 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Eastover | Member: | Cobham Bay |
Stratigraphy comments: Mollusk Zone 7 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | very fine silty sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: sand; very fine, silty, very fossiliferous, dominated by Spisula rappahanockensis | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Articulated whole bodies: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 71536 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-04-27 14:40:42 | Last modified: | 2007-05-02 09:20:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-04-27 14:40:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
16985. | L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |