White Oak Landing, Zone 24 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: King WIlliam County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 75.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Windmill Point Member (Saint Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 9

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone

Preservation: original calcite

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 71625: 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
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
subspecies plebeia
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora gardnerae
Ecphora gardnerae Wilson 1987 murex snail
subspecies gardnerae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten santamaria
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus santamaria
Glossus santamaria Ward 1992 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea goldfussii
Panopea goldfussii Wagner 1839 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte perplana
Astarte perplana Conrad 1840 clam