Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 61.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nanjemoy Formation (Pamunkey Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 101242: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 18.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana improcera pointed nut clam | |
"Pitar lenis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia, Pitar eversus, Pitar (Pitar) ovatus, Macrocallista subimpressa
"Pitar lenis" = Callocardia (Agriopoma) catharia Dall 1902 venus clam
Pitar eversus venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) ovatus Rogers and Rogers 1837 venus clam
Macrocallista subimpressa venus clam |