Potamac River Bluffs NW of Potomac Creek (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: Stafford County, Virginia (38.4° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 58.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piscataway Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: R. E. Weems. 2014. Paleogene chelonians from Maryland and Virginia. PaleoBios 31(1):1-32 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 167192: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Eosphargis insularis Cope 1872 leatherback | |
"Aspideretoides virginianus" = Trionyx virginiana
"Aspideretoides virginianus" = Trionyx virginiana Clark 1895 turtle |