ammonites
Pamunkey River - 1.1 miles southeast of North and South Anna Rivers (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Locality 26336

Where: Hanover County, Virginia (37.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 59.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• 6 feet thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• Sand, olive-gray (5 Y 4/1), clayey, poorly sorted, glauconitic and quartzose, weathered to grayish-orange (5 YR 7/4); many mollusks including Turritella, Ostrea, Dosiniopsis, Pitar

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 61149: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Devin Buick on 30.05.2006