Haulover Inlet, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Westmoreland County, Virginia (38.2° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• Mollusk Zone 8

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, brown, green, argillaceous, silty sandstone

• sand; silty, clayey, olive-brown

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 71644: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Spisula rappahannockensis Gardner 1944 clam