Rappahannock River - 0.4 mile below Lambs Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26346

Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 58.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paspotansa Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• 6 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, black, green sandstone

• Sand, olive-black (5 Y 2/1), fine, silty, micaceous, well-sorted, glauconitic; contains discontinuous bands of Turritella mortoni

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60946: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 28.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell