Where: Stafford County, Virginia (38.4° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 58.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aquia Member (Pamunkey Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1900. The Eocene and lower Oligocene coral faunas of the United States with descriptions of a few doubtfully Cretaceous species. United States Geological Survey, Monograph 39:1-263 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87832: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009

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