Laytons Landing, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Essex County, Virginia (37.8° N, 76.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 75.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Claremont Manor Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 8
Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone
• sand, silty, very fossiliferous
Size class: macrofossils
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71534: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
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| Bivalvia | |
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Spisula rappahannockensis Gardner 1944 clam | |
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| Dallarca carolinensis | |
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