Also known as USGS Locality 26417
Where: Henrico County, Virginia (37.5° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 7
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, phosphatic, gray, blue sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71655: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Ecphora kochi Ward and Gilinsky 1988 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
Euloxa latisulcata clam |