Rickahock, Zone 25 (Miocene of the United States)
Where: King and Queen County, Virginia (37.7° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 75.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Claremont Manor Member (Eastover Formation), Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• Mollusk Zone 8
Environment/lithology: offshore; gray, green, silty sandstone
• Back-barrier, and shallow inner-bay conditions, punctuated by open shelf (shelly sandy intervals)
• silty, clayey, blocky, diatomaceous
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71628: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007