Nottaway River (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Southampton County, Virginia (36.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 75.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Late/Upper Miocene to Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 3.6 Ma)

• or Yorktown Formation

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: found in the river bed

Primary reference: L. Dewaele, C. M. Peredo, P. Meyvisch and S. Louwye. 2018. Diversity of late Neogene Monachinae (Carnivora, Phocidae) from the North Atlantic, with the description of two new species. Royal Society Open Science 5(172437):1-27 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 192081: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.03.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Virginiaphoca magurai n. gen. n. sp.
Virginiaphoca magurai n. gen. n. sp. Dewaele et al. 2018 seal