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Chesapeake - Yorktown - Mogarts Beach, Hampton (City), Virginia, USA

GroupChesapeake
FormationYorktown
MemberMogarts Beach
Age:5.33 - 3.60 Ma
Neogene
IntervalZanclean
Lithologysiltstone
Number of Collections1
Number of Occurrences7

Recorded Sample Locations

LocationRegionStratigraphic Name
Rice's PitHampton (City), Virginia, USAChesapeake - Yorktown - Mogarts Beach

Recorded Fossils

Accepted NameHierarchyAge
Glottidia inexpectans
species
7Animalia : Brachiopoda : Lingulata : Lingulida : Lingulidae : Glottidia : Glottidia inexpectans5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Monachinae
subfamily
5.3Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Phocidae : Mesotaria : Monachinae5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Balaena ricei
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Balaenidae : Balaena : Balaena ricei5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Bohaskaia monodontoides
species
7Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Cetacea : Monodontidae : Bohaskaia : Bohaskaia monodontoides5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Globoturborotalita apertura
species
7Chromista : Foraminifera : Globothalamea : Rotaliida : Globigerinidae : Globoturborotalita : Globoturborotalita apertura5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Sphaeroidinellopsis sp.
genus
6Foraminifera : Globigerinidae : Sphaeroidinellopsis5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene
Turborotalia sp.
genus
6Chromista : Foraminifera : Globothalamea : Rotaliida : Hedbergellidae : Turborotalia5.333 - 3.6 Ma
Neogene

References

Gibson T. G. (1983) Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53, 355-453
Cooper G. A. (1988) Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 64, 1-27
Westgate J. W., Whitmore F. C. (2002) Balaena ricei, a new species of bowhead whale from the Yorktown Formation (Pliocene) of Hampton, Virginia, Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93, 295-312
Velez-Juarbe J., Pyenson N. D. (2012) Bohaskia monodontoides, a new monodontid (Cetacea, Odontoceti, Delphinoidea) from the Pliocene of the western North Atlantic Ocean, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 2, 476-484
Berta A., Kienle S., et al (2015) A reevaluation of Pliophoca etrusca (Pinnipedia, Phocidae) from the Pliocene of Italy: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, e889144 doi:10.1080/02724634.2014.889144
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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