Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 75.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Claremont Manor Member (Eastover Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Unit A in Ward 1992 (Fig. 11), ~8m of sand. Collection from Claremont Mbr of Eastover Fm, which underlies a thin unit of the Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Fm and the Sunken Meadow Mbr of the Yorktown Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59295: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell Subspecies: Turritella plebeia carinata
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Bivalvia | |
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam | |
Euloxa latisulcata clam | |
Glossus fraternas clam | |
Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog
Lirophora dalli Olsson 1914 venus clam | |
Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam | |
Marvacrassatella surryensis Mansfield 1929 clam | |
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Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
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Dallarca virginiae Wagner 1850 clam | |
Costaglycymeris virginiae Wagner 1848 clam | |
Dallarca carolinensis | |
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