Where: Virginia (37.9° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 58.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Aspiderites virginianus zone, Piscataway Member (Aquia Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. E. Weems. 1985. Vertebrate biozones of the Pamunkey Group (Paleocene and Eocene, Maryland and Virginia). In L. W. Ward and K. Krafft (eds.), Stratigraphy and paleontology of the outcropping Tertiary beds in the Pamunkey River region, central Virginia Coastal Plain -- Guidebook for Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 1984 field Trip: Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 198-209 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Bruning]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 13185: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 25.01.2002

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