PRI Loc. 1611 [Yorktown Fm]: Late Pliocene, Virginia
collected by Smith 1925

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
Gastropoda - Trochidae
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
1 specimen
3 specimens
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
Fusinus sp. Rafinesque 1815
2 specimens
Lirosoma sulcosa (Conrad 1830)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turridae indet. Swainson 1840
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
Trigonostoma sp. Blainville 1827
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Scaphella sp. Swainson 1832
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Urosalpinx sp. Stimpson 1865
9 specimens
Ecphora quadricostata (Conrad 1830)
1 specimen
"Trophon" tetricus (Conrad 1832)
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
6 specimens
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
1 specimen
3 specimens
unclassified
1 specimen
Bivalvia
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Yoldia laevis (Say 1824)
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Myochamidae
Myochama sp. Stutchbury 1830
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Agriopoma sayana (Conrad 1833)
4 specimens
11 specimens
Chione cancellata (Linnaeus 1767)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
49 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Isle of Wight
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 76.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 75.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Neogene Epoch: Pliocene
Stage: Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pliocene
Age range of interval: 3.6 - 2.58 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Yorktown
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Yorktown Fm, which unconformably overlies regionally the Eastover Fm (Late Miocene), and is unconformably overlain regionally by the Chowan River Fm. It is unknown from which member of the Yorktown Formation that this collection is derived. AGE: Early to early-Late Pliocene on the basis of known age-range of the Yorktown Formation (Ward, 1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:medium,yellow unlithified sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Medium yellow sand. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of visual inspection of collection.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collectors:Smith Collection dates:1925
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: B. Smith, 1925. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda, bivalvia and other macroinvertebrates. NOMENCLATURE: Lists, counts, and identifications compiled by A. Hendy, in reference to Glenn (1904), Martin (1904), Gardner (1947), Ward (1992), and Ward and Gillinsky (1993).
Metadata
Database number:79245
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-02-28 20:43:45 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-02-28 20:43:45
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]