M 849 (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Caroline County, Virginia (38.2° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 61.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Nanjemoy Formation (Pamunkey Group), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 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 99207: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 02.11.2010, edited by Ursula Smith

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana improcera pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Aequipecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus
"Aequipecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus Morton 1833 scallop
subspecies "Aequipecten perplanus centrotus"
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella "sp. P" Lamarck 1799 turret shell