MCZ C. Jones Loc. 9 [St Mary's Fm]: Late/Upper Miocene, Virginia
collected by Jones

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum (Crucibulum) costatum (Say 1820)
1 specimen
recombined as Crucibulum (Dispotaea) costata
Gastropoda - Naticidae
Euspira heros (Say 1822)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Dallarca idonea (Conrad 1832)
3 specimens
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula inaequalis (Say 1824)
1 specimen
original and current combination Corbula inaequalis
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mulinia congesta (Conrad 1833)
240 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tellinidae
Moerella sp. Fischer 1887
1 specimen
spelled with current rank as Tellina (Moerella)
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis directus (Conrad 1844)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Hiatella arctica (Linnaeus 1767)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula taphria Dall 1898
5 specimens
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Saccella concentrica
2 specimens
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
Echinoidea
Echinoidea indet. (Leske 1778)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Virginia County:Essex
Coordinates: 37.7° North, 76.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.8° North, 75.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Miocene
Age range of interval:11.60800 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Chesapeake Formation:St Mary's Member:Windmill Point
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the Windmill Point Mbr of the St Mary's Fm, Chesapeake Group. AGE: Late Miocene (equivalent to Tortonian) according to Ward (1992). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From high-water level in river section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal unlithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Shelly pocket in sticky grey clay. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, restricted/sheltered, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
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:MCZ
Collectors:Jones
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Carol Jones, ~1970's. REPOSITORY: MCZ, Harvard. FIDELITY: High ecologic fidelity.
Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Glenn (1904), Ward (1992), and Petuch (2004).
Metadata
Database number:79751
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-22 13:15:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-22 13:15:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
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]

Secondary references:

26931 C. C. Jones. 1976. The biology and evolution of Chione (Bivalvia: Veneridae) in the eastern coastal plains of North America. Unpublished Ph.D thesis, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]