Mount Airy Millpond, Zone 24 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Richmond County, Virginia (38.0° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 74.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Windmill Point Member (Saint Marys Formation), Tortonian (11.6 - 7.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; silty sandstone
• sand, silty, very fine, some molluscan molds
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
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 71630: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
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