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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana improcera pointed nut clam | |
"Aequipecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus
"Aequipecten perplanus" = Pecten (Pecten) perplanus Morton 1833 scallop subspecies "Aequipecten perplanus centrotus"
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Gastropoda | |
Turritella "sp. P" Lamarck 1799 turret shell |