Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 64.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Nanjemoy Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)
• The wellhead was at an elevation of 54.85 m above sea level; depth refers to depths below the wellhead.
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; green, argillaceous sandstone and claystone
Size class: microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Collected by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; reposited in the USGS
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
• Stratigraphic test bored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under contract to the U.S. Geological Survey, in 1976. Samples were prepared by means of standard acid maceration as well as by swirling and (or) ZnBr2 separation. Specimens are located at the U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia.
Primary reference: N. O. Frederiksen. 1979. Paleogene Sporomorph Biostratigraphy, Northeastern Virginia. Palynology 3:129-167 [P. Jardine/H. Morck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 233012: authorized by Phillip Jardine, entered by Hannah Morck on 10.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Angiospermae | |
Tricolpites asper Frederiksen 1978 | |
Casuarinidites spp. Cookson and Pike 1954 | |
Platycarya platycaryoides, Momipites microfoveolatus, Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus, Carya "less than 29 µm"
Platycarya platycaryoides Roche 1969
Momipites microfoveolatus Stanley 1965
Platycaryapollenites swasticoidus Elsik 1974
Carya "less than 29 µm" Nuttall 1818 hickory | |
Betula infrequens birch | |
Plicatopollis | |
Plicatopollis "lunata type" Krutzsch 1962 |