Fisher-Sullivan Site, Virgina (Eocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Dicotyledoneae
 Ericales - Symplocaceae
Symplocos grimsleyi Tiffney 1999 sweetleaf
Angiospermae
  - Mastixiaceae
? Beckettia sp. Reid and Chandler 1933
 Vitales - Vitaceae
Ampelopsis sp. Michaux 1803
Vitis sp. Linnaeus 1753 grapevine
 Malpighiales - Euphorbiaceae
Wetherellia marylandica Hollick 1901 spurge
 Ranunculales - Menispermaceae
Tinospora folmerii Tiffney 1999
 Cornales - Nyssaceae
Nyssa sp. Linnaeus 1753 tupelo
 Icacinales - Icacinaceae
Iodes multireticulata Reid and Chandler 1933 white pear
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
Canarium parksii Tiffney 1999 true conch