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A small specimen of this species, but a nice one. They get quite a bit larger. I have one pushing 160 mm wide but it is in poor shape.
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This might prove very easy for more advanced fossil collectors to answer. In 2004, the floodwaters from Hurricane Gaston swept away a large amount of soil and clay from an existing stream near the backyard of our suburban house near Mechanicsville, Virginia, exposing a clay bed littered with numerous fossils. The turritella you see in the picture occurs the most frequently of all our finds, and the small clam fossils are a close second. We've recently started to find more of the kind of scallop fossil in the image, which we guessed was a chesapecten jeffersonius, Virginia's state fossil. I found one moonsnail fossil in the same clay, but it's the only fossil of that kind that we've found. Anyway, I'm not much of a geologist, so I haven't been able to precisely date these, or identify them with a specific epoch. I have what I think is a reasonable guess, but I'd like to get a specific date on just how many years worth of soil Gaston scrubbed away from our backyard. Thanks!
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Upper Miocene St. Marys Exposures in Maryland, Virginia
mbeyer747 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Hello! Has anyone collected from the Windmill Point Member of the St. Marys Formation in Maryland or Virginia? I've collected the Chesapecten scallops for years and would LOVE to find a Chesapecten santamaria and finally fill that major gap in my collection. C. santamaria is common in these exposures but I don't know of any on public property - are there? Has anyone collected on private property - if so would you mind sharing contact info of the person/organization involved? Thanks so much! -
Request for Paper - Lee Creek Mine Miocene and Pliocene Scallops
mbeyer747 posted a topic in General Fossil Discussion
Does anyone have a copy/working link to T.G. Gibson's Miocene and Pliocene Pectinidae from the Lee Creek Mine and Adjacent areas? It's paper from C.E Ray's 1987 Geology and Paleontology of the Lee Creek Mine, North Carolina. If so, would you so kindly share with me? According to Lyle Campbell's Pliocene Molluscs from the Yorktown and Chowan River Formations in Virginia, there's some good info and lots of pics of Chesapecten septenarius. Thanks! -
From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: Chesapecten nefrens (both valves of specimen) Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, James City County, VA, left bank, downstream of Jamestown -
From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: Chesapecten nefrens Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, James City County, VA, left bank, downstream of Jamestown-
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From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: Chesapecten nefrens Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, James City County, VA, left bank, downstream of Jamestown -
From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: Chesapecten nefrens (both valves of specimen) Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, James City County, VA, left bank, downstream of Jamestown- 1 comment
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From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: C. jeffersonius with Placopecten clintonius (naturally concreted together) Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, Surry County, VA, right bank, downstream of Sunken Meadow-
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From the album: Recent Finds in VA
Name: Chesapecten jeffersonius Formation: Yorktown / Rushmere Member Age: Pliocene Location: James River, Surry County, VA, right bank, near Cobhams Wharf -
From the album: Chesapeake Western Shore - Miocene
- At top and left, Chesapecten scallop shells - At center-right, possible cetacean metacarpal/phalanx bone? - At right, extinct mako shark tooth - At bottom, four various marine mammal epiphyses ("cookies") - Also includes ray dental plate, fish/shark vertebrae fragments (one turned on side)© rpw/sew 2013
