Metompkin Island: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides ohioensis Foster 1838
Eshelman and Grady 1986
Mammalia - Cetacea - Eschrichtiidae
Eschrichtius glaucus (Cope 1868)
Eshelman and Grady 1986
synonym of Eschrichtius robustus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus rosmarus (Linnaeus 1758)
Eshelman and Grady 1986
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Accomack
Coordinates: 37.8° North, 75.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 75.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:shoreface
Geology comments: ocean beach
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:73486
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-06-18 11:25:14 Last modified:2011-04-14 14:41:26
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-18 11:25:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

35837. C. O. Handley and C. P. Patton. 1947. Wild Mammals of Virginia 1-220 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

1461 R. Eshelman and F. Grady. 1986. Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 75:43-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]