White Oak Landing, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as White Oak Lodge, Mattaponi River

Where: King WIlliam County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 75.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Claremont Manor Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 8

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

• Back-barrier, and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sandy intervals)

Size class: macrofossils

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 71626: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Phocidae indet.
Phocidae indet. Gray 1821 seal
seal bone
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.
Cetacea indet. Brisson 1762 whale
whale bone
 Cetacea -
Odontoceti indet.
Odontoceti indet. Flower 1867 toothed whale
porpoise bone
Aves
 Charadriiformes - Alcoidae
Miocepphus blowi n. sp.
Miocepphus blowi n. sp. Wijnker and Olson 2009 auk
Gnathostomata
  -
Chondrichthyes indet.
Chondrichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 cartilaginous fish
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Ecphora gardnerae
Ecphora gardnerae Wilson 1987 murex snail
subspecies whiteoakensis
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten middlesexensis
Chesapecten middlesexensis Mansfield 1936 scallop
subspecies middlesexensis
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea compressirostra
Ostrea compressirostra Say 1824 oyster
subspecies brucei
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Glossus fraterna
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Dosinia sp., Mercenaria druidi
Dosinia sp. Scopoli 1777 venus clam
Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog
Malacostraca
 Decapoda -
Decapoda indet.
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod