Also known as USGS Locality 26363

Where: Caroline County, Virginia (38.0° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 61.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 4 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, glauconitic, gray, green, argillaceous sandstone

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 60906: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 27.05.2006