Bluff at Northbury: Late/Upper Oligocene, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Cheloniidae
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Ashleychelys palmeri
Weems and Sanders 2014
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Procolpochelys charlestonensis
Weems and Sanders 2014
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1 specimen | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | New Kent |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 77.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 71.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Chattian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Oligocene | Nannofossil zone: | NP 24 |
| Age range of interval: | 27.82000 - 23.03000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Old Church | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: "about a
foot above the basal contact at the base of the low bluff outcrop" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 167201 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd | Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | P. Holroyd | ||
| Created: | 2015-03-08 16:46:06 | Last modified: | 2015-03-08 16:46:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2015-03-08 16:46:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 54562. | R. E. Weems. 2014. Paleogene chelonians from Maryland and Virginia. PaleoBios 31(1):1-32 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |