Cobham Wharf, Mollusk Zone 6 (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Surry County, Virginia (37.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 6
Environment/lithology: offshore; fine-grained, glauconitic, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal sandstone
• sand, shelly, fine, some sand-sized glauconite and phosphate. Cetacean bone concentrated in lower part. Large bivalves very abundant.
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 71620: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella pilsbryi Gardner 1928 turret shell | |
Ecphora quadricostata Conrad 1830 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam | |
Placopecten clintonius Say 1824 scallop
Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop | |
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Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Kuphus fistula Lea 1843 clam | |
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam | |
Mercenaria inflata quahog | |
Panopea reflexa clam | |
Astarte vaginulata clam
Astarte deltoidea clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Mammalia | |
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale |