Where: Charles County, Maryland (38.6° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 58.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquia Formation (Pamunkey Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 91883: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 22.10.2009, edited by Ursula Smith
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Bathytormus alaeformis Conrad 1830 clam
Crassatella aquiana Clark 1895 clam | |
Panopea elongata clam | |
Corbula "sp. F" Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Dosiniopsis lenticularis Rogers 1838 venus clam
Pitar (Pitar) pyga venus clam | |
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
Ostrea "sp. K" Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Brachidontes potomacensis mussel | |
Gastropoda | |
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni, Turritella humerosa
"Turritella mortoni" = Kapalmerella mortoni Conrad 1830 turret shell
Turritella humerosa Conrad 1835 turret shell |