ammonites
Mattaponi River - 0.15 mile above Rte. 301 bridge (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26351

Where: Caroline County, Virginia (38.0° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 59.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Paspotansa Member (Aquia Formation), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• 6 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, black, green, silty sandstone

• Sand, olive-black (5 Y 2/1), glauconitic, silty, fine, micaceous, well-sorted, somewhat weathered; Turritella and other mollusks common but poorly preserved.

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 60943: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 28.05.2006