Where: King George County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 58.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Aquia Formation (Pamunkey Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 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 101306: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Ursula Smith on 20.12.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Cyphoxis) gigantea Conrad 1862 clam | |
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta
""Lucina" uhleri" = Myrtaea (Myrtaea) curta Conrad 1865 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Euspira marylandica Conrad 1865 moon snail | |
Priscoficus arguta fig shell | |
cf. Sveltia sp. Jousseaume 1887 snail | |
cf. Eopleurotoma harrisi turrid | |
? Mesorhytis pomonkensis mitre shell | |
Strepsidura "sp. B" Swainson 1840 true whelk
Cantharus (Endopachychilus) marylandicus true whelk | |
cf. Streptochetus potomacensis Clark and Martin 1901 snail | |
Niso "sp. C" Risso 1826 snail | |
"? Monodonta glandula" = Gibbula glandula
"? Monodonta glandula" = Gibbula glandula Conrad 1866 top snail | |
Odostomia "sp. C" Fleming 1817 snail
Turbonilla potomacensis snail | |
Tornatellaea "sp. C" Conrad 1860 snail | |
Cylichna venusta Clark 1895 snail |