Pamunkey River (Paleocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
"Eupsammia conradi n. sp." = Balanophyllia
"Eupsammia conradi n. sp." = Balanophyllia stony coral