ammonites
Pamunkey River - old Newcastle Bridge (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26405

Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 61.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Woodstock Member (Nanjemoy Formation), Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• 7 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, burrowed, glauconitic, micaceous, black, green, silty sandstone

• Sand, olive-black (5 Y 2/1), silty, very fine, very glauconitic, micaceous, well-sorted; burrows from overlying Piney Point as deep as 5 feet

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: 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] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60768: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 22.05.2006