Bowlers Wharf, Zone 26: Messinian, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Turritella plebeia Say 1824
recombined as Mariacolpus plebeia
subspecies plebeia
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Nassariidae
Bulliopsis quadrata (Conrad 1830)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Melongenidae
Busycotypus coronatum (Conrad 1840)
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Terebra simplex Conrad 1830
recombined as Laevihastula simplex
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora kochi Ward and Gilinsky 1988
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chesapecten middlesexensis (Mansfield 1936)
subspecies middlesexensis
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Teredinidae
Kuphus fistula (Lea 1843)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Lirophora vredenburgi Ward 1992
Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Leptomactra delumbis (Conrad 1832)
Spisula rappahannockensis (Gardner 1944)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Chesacardium laqueatum (Conrad 1830)
subspecies blountense
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
Marvacrassatella urbannaensis
unclassified
Dallarca carolinensis (Conrad 1849)
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]