Mattaponi River - 1.5 miles above Rte. 207 Bridge: Ypresian, Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Virginia | County: | Caroline |
| Coordinates: | 38.2° North, 77.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 61.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Altitude: | 81 feet | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,glauconitic,gray,green unlithified silty sandstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Sand, olive-gray (5 Y 4/1), silty, fine, moderately glauconitic, some pebbles; scattered molds of Venericardia | |||
| Environment: | coastal indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Abundance in sediment: | common |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
| Also known as: | USGS Locality 26365 | ||
| Database number: | 60904 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Miller | Enterer: | D. Buick |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-27 16:44:02 | Last modified: | 2022-04-27 03:40:33 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-27 16:44:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17420. | L. W. Ward. 1985. Stratigraphy and Characteristic Mollusks of the Pamunkey Group (Lower Tertiary) and the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group-Virginia Coastal Plain. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (1346)1-77 [A. Miller/D. Buick] |