Where: Nansemond County, Virginia (36.9° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 36.9° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: silty-sand facies Member (Norfolk Formation), Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; unlithified, pebbly, silty sandstone and siltstone

Primary reference: N. K. Coch. 1971. Geology of the Newport News South and Bowers Hill quadrangles, Virginia. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Report of Investigations 28:1-26 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7108: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 25.04.2000, edited by Austin Hendy

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