Schooff Property (Miocene of the United States)
Where: New Kent County, Virginia (37.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 75.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
• shell bed
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. L. Beatty and A. C. Dooley. 2013. The first terrestrial mammal from the Late Miocene Eastover Formation of Virginia. Jeffersoniana 29:1-6 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 141245: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |