Where: New Kent County, Virginia (37.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 71.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: NP 24 nannofossil zone, Old Church Formation (Chesapeake Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• "about a
•foot above the basal contact at the base of the low bluff
•outcrop"
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 167201: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.03.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Procolpochelys charlestonensis Weems and Sanders 2014 sea turtle
Ashleychelys palmeri Weems and Sanders 2014 sea turtle |