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

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chesapecten santamaria Tucker 1934 scallop
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia
"Turritella plebeia" = Mariacolpus plebeia Say 1824 turret shell
subspecies plebeia