Where: New Kent County, Virginia (37.6° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 58.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pamunkey Formation, Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• bed-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 87833: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.03.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Eupsammia conradi n. sp." = Balanophyllia
"Eupsammia conradi n. sp." = Balanophyllia stony coral |