Also known as 505.7-505.85 ft

Where: Hampton County, Virginia (37.1° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 70.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Old Church Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• SOURCE: collecton from 154.14-154.18 m (505.7-505.85 ft) in core. STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Old Church Fm overlies Drummonds Corner beds. The lower contact of the Old Church Fm is at a depth of 176.0 m (577.4 ft). BIOSTRATIGRAPHY: Late Oligocene age. NP 24 calcareous nannofossil zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USNM

• SOURCE: occurrences of large recognizable species and any molluscan remains were noted. Fossiliferous samples were collected at selected intervals for precessing and further examination. Samples were washed, the fraction >850 um was retained, and molluscan fauna specimens recovered were sorted and identified. Generic assignments for extant groups were updated on the basis of Turgeon et al. (1998). COLLECTORS: Collected by NASA-USGS. REPOSITORIES: presumably reposited in USGS and USNM collections.

Primary reference: L. E. Edwards, J. A. Barron, D. Bukry, L.M. Bybell, T.M. Cronin, C.W. Poag, R.E. Weems and G.L. Wingard. 2005. Paleontology of the Upper Eocene to Quaternary Post Impact Section in the USGS-NASA Langley Core, Hampton Virginia. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1688:1-71 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/R. McClees-Funinan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61288: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.06.2006

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