Where: Stafford County, Virginia (38.3° N, 77.4° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.3° N, 51.7° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Potapaco Member (Nanjemoy Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; unlithified, glauconitic claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Preservation: permineralized, charcoalification, original carbon, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: B. H. Tiffney. 1999. Fossil fruit and seed flora from the early Eocene Fisher/Sullivan site. In R. E. Weems & J. G. J. Grimsley (ed.), Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Publication 152:139-159 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 22775: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Jessica Bean on 25.06.2002, edited by Sara Pendleton
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
Symplocos grimsleyi Tiffney 1999 sweetleaf | |
Angiospermae | |
? Beckettia sp. Reid and Chandler 1933 | |
Ampelopsis sp. Michaux 1803
Vitis sp. Linnaeus 1753 grapevine | |
Wetherellia marylandica Hollick 1901 spurge | |
Tinospora folmerii Tiffney 1999 | |
Nyssa sp. Linnaeus 1753 tupelo | |
Iodes multireticulata Reid and Chandler 1933 white pear | |
Gastropoda | |
Canarium parksii Tiffney 1999 true conch |