Cobham Wharf, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 75.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Claremont Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 8
Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, silty sandstone
• sand, silty, poorly sorted
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 71535: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 27.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Costaglycymeris virginiae Wagner 1848 clam | |
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Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
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Marvacrassatella surryensis Mansfield 1929 clam | |
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Lucinoma contracta Say 1824 clam | |
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Lirophora dalli Olsson 1914 venus clam | |
| Dallarca carolinensis | |
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