Cobham Wharf, Mollusk Zone 5: Late/Upper Pliocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama congregata
Conrad 1833
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea compressirostra
Say 1824
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| subspecies raveneli | ||||||||||
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Conradostrea sculpturata
(Conrad 1840)
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chesapecten madisonius
(Say 1824)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Surry |
| Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 76.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 76.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Yorktown | Member: | Rushmere |
| Stratigraphy comments: Mollusk Zone 5 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,glauconitic,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: sand, shelly, fine, slightly phosphatic. Large bivalves very abundant | |
| 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: | 71621 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-05-02 06:12:07 | Last modified: | 2007-05-02 09:12:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-05-02 06:12:06 |
| 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] |