| Covington |
Alleghany |
VA |
6.5 km SW at Island Ford |
Silurian? [Devonian] |
Helderberg|Oriskany |
Spirifer,Rensselaeria,Favosites,Crinoid fragments,Gypidula,Stromatopora,Cladopora,others |
VA0001 |
|
|
| – |
Augusta |
VA |
|
Cambrian? |
|
Trilobite-Microdiscus |
VA0099 |
|
|
| Shenandoah Mountain |
Augusta |
VA |
SE slope in shales |
Silurian [Devonian?] |
Chemung |
Camarotoechia,Chonetes,Orthothetes,Spirifer,Leptodesma |
VA0002 |
|
|
| Staunton |
Augusta |
VA |
Staunton-Harrisonburg area |
Ordovician |
|
Silicified fossils–Trilobites-Flexicalymene |
VA0003 |
|
|
| Waynesboro[?] |
Augusta |
VA |
In quartzite in landfill |
|
|
Skolithus burrows |
VA0004 |
The original says Wayneville,but there seems to be no such place. Waynesville appears at one time to have been an alternative name for Waynesboro |
|
| Carmel Church |
Caroline |
VA |
Off US1 between Richmond and Fredericksburg near Kings Dominion. Exposes about 10m of Paleocene,Eocene,and Miocene marine beds |
Paleocene-Eocene-Miocene |
Aquia|Nanjemoy|Calvert|Choptank|Eastover |
shark teeth,vertebrate bones |
VA0005 |
|
|
| Chesapeake |
Chesapeake |
VA |
in Borrow pits |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks — Chesapecten,Crepidula,Ecphora,Busycon,Turritella,Oliva,Dentalium. Coral Astrangia,Septastrea;Worm tubes;Echinoderms-Abertella; Crab claws;Vertebrates-Odontapsis,Carcharodon |
VA0006 |
There is also a Chesapeake in Northampton County |
|
| Tomahawk Creek |
Chesterfield |
VA |
on abandoned portion of Old Hundred Road on Turkey Branch |
Triassic Upper |
Tomahawk |
vertebrate teeth-Lissodus |
VA0007 |
|
|
| Newcastle |
Craig |
VA |
2 km S |
Silurian |
Becraft Limestone |
Schellwienella,Stropheodonta,Uncinulus,Eatonia. Spirifer |
VA0008 |
|
|
| Newcastle |
Craig |
VA |
In area exposures in George Washington National Forest |
Paleozoic |
|
abundant fossils |
VA0009 |
|
|
| Culpepper Basin |
Fairfax |
VA |
|
Triassic |
Bull Run Shale |
fish-Redfieldius |
VA0010 |
|
|
| Gainsboro |
Frederick |
VA |
in the West bound lane road cut 3.2km West |
Devonian |
|
trilobites,crinoids,cephalopods |
VA0011 |
|
|
| Gore |
Frederick |
VA |
In concretions in road cut on old road across from Gore Grocery Store 391551N281952W |
Devonian |
|
trilobites |
VA0012 |
|
|
| Gore |
Frederick |
VA |
in road cut at Gore,VA |
Devonian |
|
abundant brachiopods and trilobites – Phacops |
VA0013 |
|
|
| Gore |
Frederick |
VA |
on US50 20 km W of Winchester |
Silurian-Devonian |
|
Brachiopods-Tropidoleptus,mollusks-Modiomorpha,crinoids-Arthrocantha,Trilobites – Phacops |
VA0014 |
|
|
| Middletown |
Frederick |
VA |
4 km NW along road |
Ordovician |
Beekmantown |
Lecanospira,Finkelnburgia,Ophileta,cephalopods |
VA0015 |
|
|
| Manakin |
Goochland |
VA |
Boscobel Quarry |
Triassic |
Newark |
Fish-Dictyopyge |
VA0016 |
|
|
| Vinita |
Goochland |
VA |
3.2km E |
Triassic |
Newark |
Fish-Dictyopyge |
VA0017 |
|
|
| Hampton |
Hampton |
VA |
Rice’s Fossil Pit at 29 Harris Creek Rd (small fee) |
Miocene |
|
mollusks |
VA0018 |
|
|
| Hampton |
Hampton |
VA |
in Borrow pits |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks — Chesapecten,Crepidula,Ecphora,Busycon,Turritella,Oliva,Dentalium. Coral Astrangia,Septastrea;Worm tubes. Echinoderms Abertella; Crab claws,Vertebrates -Odontapsis. Carcharodon. |
VA0019 |
Septastrea is Septasbrea in original |
|
| Hampton |
Hampton |
VA |
in Rice’s Fossil Pit on Harris Creek Road. |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Typical Yorktown faunas with large corals and cetacean fragments. |
VA0020 |
|
|
| Monterey[?] |
Highland |
VA |
In Monterey River |
Ordovician |
|
Crinoid |
VA0021 |
|
http://www.geo.vu.nl/~smit/fossielen/fossils.htm |
| Chuckatuck Quarries |
Isle of Wight |
VA |
South of Smithfield |
|
|
Abundant,diverse marine fossils |
VA0022 |
|
|
| Mogarts Beach |
Isle of Wight |
VA |
At FHA-AFF girls camp 5 km NNE of Smithfield on South Bank of James River along base of cliffs and in ravines. |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks,corals,cirripedes,echinoids,shark teeth |
VA0023 |
|
|
| Mogarts Beach |
Isle of Wight |
VA |
At Hunt Club 1 km ESE of FHA-AFF girls camp on South Bank of James River along base of cliffs and in ravines |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks,corals,cirripedes,echinoids,shark teeth |
VA0024 |
|
|
| Carter’s Grove-York Peninsula |
James City |
VA |
on James River in bluffs |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Chama,Venus,Crassatellites,Pecten,Venus |
VA0025 |
|
|
| King’s Mill |
James City |
VA |
S of old wharf on James River |
|
|
Forams,Pectens,Pholas – 75 species |
VA0026 |
|
|
| Williamsburg |
James City |
VA |
Across James River near Ferry landing-Access to lower bench is W of pier |
|
|
a few fossils |
VA0027 |
|
|
| Belvedere Beach |
King George |
VA |
|
Paleocene |
Aquia |
brachiopods and mollusks |
VA0028 |
|
|
| Belvedere Beach |
King George |
VA |
Aquia |
Eocene |
|
Shark Teeth-Heterodontus,Synechodus |
VA0029 |
|
|
| Rose Hill |
Lee |
VA |
9 km SE on Yellow Branch |
Ordovician |
Stones River Limestone |
Cryptophragmus,bryozoa,Archeocrinus,Dekayella,Monotrypa,Hindia,Carabocrinus,Batostoma,Crepipora,others |
VA0030 |
|
|
| Stickleyville |
Lee |
VA |
3.5 km E |
Ordovician |
Sequatchie Sandstone, shale |
Dalmanella,Lingula,Hebertella,Zygospira,Byssonychia |
VA0031 |
|
|
| Aldie |
Loudoun |
VA |
Quarry at James Madison home-Oak Hill in 1920 |
Triassic |
Newark |
dinosaur tracks-Grallator,Eubrontes |
VA0032 |
|
http://www.jhu.edu/~jhumag/696web/dinosaur.html |
| Martinsville |
Pittsylvania |
VA |
nearby at Solite Quarry on VA-NC border |
Triassic |
Newark |
well preserved insects and other fossils |
VA0033 |
|
|
| Hopewell |
Prince George |
VA |
9km SW in clay and sand layers in gravel pit of Tarmac Lone Star Industries-‘Puddlerock Locality’ |
Cretaceous |
Potomac |
plants |
|
|
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9122(199507)82:7%3C933:AAGESN%3E2.0.CO;2-Z |
| James River |
Prince George |
VA |
West Tidewater area E of Hopewell,VA,in bluffs along James River |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks –Chesapecten,Crepidula,Ecphora,Busycon,Turritella,Oliva,Dentalium. Coral Astrangia,Septastrea; Worm tubes. Echinoderms Abertella; Crab claws,Vertebrates – Odontapsis. Carcharodon. |
VA0034 |
Septastrea is Septasbrea in original |
|
| – |
Pulaski |
VA |
sandstones in |
Mississippian |
Price |
Plants Triphyllopteris |
VA0035 |
|
|
| Richmond |
Richmond |
VA |
plant fossils have been found in Triassic-Jurassic coal beds. |
Triassic-Jurassic |
Newark |
? |
VA0036 |
|
|
| Blacksburg |
Roanoke |
VA |
5 km NE area exposures |
Ordovician |
Athens Shale |
Trinucleus,Dionide,Triarthus |
VA0037 |
|
|
| Blacksburg |
Roanoke |
VA |
at Thomas Farm |
Ordovician |
Whitesburg |
Arthrorhachis,Eoharpes,Ampyx,Nileus,Bronteopsis,Homotelus |
VA0038 |
|
|
| Catawba |
Roanoke |
VA |
E along road |
Ordovician |
Athens Shale |
trilobites – Triarthus,Cryptolithus,graptolites – Raphiophorus,Robergia |
VA0039 |
|
|
| Catawba Mountain |
Roanoke |
VA |
along Salem-Newcastle Hwy in calcareous shales and sandy limestones |
Ordovician |
Trenton |
Lasiograptus,Praspora,Zygospira,Plectambonites,Pholidops,Dalmanella,Rafinesquina. Hebertella,Sinuites,Orthoceras,Cryptolithus,etc |
VA0040 |
|
|
| Catawba Valley |
Roanoke |
VA |
along Salem-Newcastle Hwy in thin limestones |
Ordovician |
Lenoir |
abundant fossils shells,bryozoa,trilobites – Homotelus,Pterygometopus,Remopleurides,Illaneus,Bumastus,Acrolichas,Glaphurus,Ceraurus,Nieszkowskia |
VA0041 |
|
|
| Mason Creek |
Roanoke |
VA |
between Fort Lewis Mountain and Green Ridge |
Devonian |
Chemung |
Spirifer,Chonetes,Ambocoelia,Sphenotus,crinoid steps,plants Newcastle,Roanoke County,VA,1 km S in massive dark blue Limestone in ledges — Devonian — — Spirifer,Eatonia,Leptaena,Uncinulus,Strophonella,Meristella |
VA0042 |
|
|
| Roanoke |
Roanoke |
VA |
In small shale exposure in pasture on private land–Permission required (and not guaranteed to be granted) |
Ordovician |
Liberty Hall |
Trilobites-Ampyxina,Edmundsonia,Dionide,Porterfieldia,Robergia fragments,Calliopes fragments;Graptolites;Brachiopods;Gastropods;Cephalopods,Ichnofossils |
VA0043 |
|
|
| Salem |
Roanoke |
VA |
13 km N |
Ordovician |
Athens Shale |
Climacograptus,Corynoides,Cryptograptus,Dicellograptus,Dicranograptus,many other graptolites |
VA0044 |
|
|
| Salem |
Roanoke |
VA |
In Catawba Valley |
Ordovician |
Athens Shale |
graptolites-Diplograptus |
VA0045 |
|
|
| Lexington |
Rockbridge |
VA |
4 km NW at Whistle Creek in Limestone |
Ordovician |
|
typical faunas |
VA0046 |
|
|
| Brookside Inn |
Russell |
VA |
2 km SE along VA71 in Limestone and shale |
Cambrian |
Nolichucky |
Lingulepis,Aphelaspis,Coosia,Oedorhachis,Tricrepicephalus,Agnostus,Norwoodella,cystoid plates |
VA0047 |
This ‘Brookside Inn’ doesn’t come up in Internet searches. Locating it may be a challenge. |
|
| Brookside Inn |
Russell |
VA |
S along VA71 in shale and Limestone |
Cambrian |
Rome |
Trilobites-Elrathiella,Solenopleurella,Glossopleura,Anoria,Periommela |
VA0048 |
This ‘Brookside Inn’ doesn’t come up in Internet searches. Locating it may be a challenge. |
|
| Cole |
Russell |
VA |
|
Cambrian |
Elbrook dolomite |
Cryptozoon,trilobites – Crepicephalus,Coosia,Kingstonia,Blountia |
VA0049 |
|
|
| Hayter Wind Gap |
Russell |
VA |
on VA40 |
Ordovician |
Martinsburg |
many types of invertebrates |
VA0050 |
|
|
| Gate City |
Scott |
VA |
13 km NW at Rye Cove in area exposures |
Ordovician |
Ottosee |
brachiopods,sponges,algae,corals,cystoids,crinoids,crinoids,bryozoa,gastropods,cephalopods,trilobites |
VA0051 |
|
|
| Gate City |
Scott |
VA |
8 km W in Marcem quarry |
Ordovician |
|
typical faunas |
VA0052 |
|
|
| – |
Shenandoah |
VA |
400 meters W of intersection of VA601 and US11 |
Ordovician |
Edinburg |
bryozoa – Rhinidictya,crinoids,brachiopods |
VA0055 |
|
|
| Strasburg |
Shenandoah |
VA |
|
Ordovician |
|
Trilobites-Cryptolithus |
VA0053 |
|
|
| Strasburg |
Shenandoah |
VA |
2 km SW on Tumbling Run |
Ordovician |
Chambersburg Limestone |
Nidulites,Sowerbyites,Receptaculites,Dendrograptus,corals,cystoid plates,bryozoa,brachiopods,pelecypods,gastropods,cephalopods,trilobites |
VA0054 |
|
|
| Strasburg |
Shenandoah |
VA |
6km SE along Route 687 at Passage Creek gap in shale and siltstone partings in hard sandstone |
Silurian |
Massanutten Sandstone |
Microfossils,plant fossils (Earliest known terrestrial plants) |
|
|
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi?ohiou1108479418 |
| Strasburg |
Shenandoah |
VA |
On slopes of Green Mountain in shale and siltstone partings in hard sandstone |
Silurian |
Massanutten Sandstone |
Microfossils,plant fossils (Earliest known terrestrial plants) |
|
|
http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/send-pdf.cgi?ohiou1108479418 |
| Marion |
Smyth |
VA |
10 km SW to the NW of Holston Mill |
Cambrian |
Elbrook dolomite |
trilobites – Terranovella |
VA0056 |
|
|
| Saltville |
Smyth |
VA |
6.5 km W |
Silurian |
|
Heliophyllum,Anoplotheca,Anoplia,Spirifer |
VA0057 |
Original says ‘Anadaga’ formation. Anadaga is an occasional misspelling of Onondaga,but the Onondaga formation is Devonian,not Silurian |
|
| Aquia Creek |
Stafford |
VA |
|
Paleocene |
Aquia |
? |
VA0058 |
|
|
| Fisher Branch |
Stafford |
VA |
bone bed in creek bed |
|
|
shark teeth. Other vertebrates? |
VA0059 |
|
|
| Marlboro Point |
Stafford |
VA |
along beach at mouth of Potomac Creek |
Paleocene-Eocene |
Aquia |
Odontapsis,Otodus,Myliobatis,Crocodile teeth,Turritella mortoni |
VA0060 |
|
|
| near Fredericksburg |
Stafford |
VA |
Fisher Lane Bone Bed,Fisher Branch of Muddy Creek,Exposure of the Ypresian Nanjemoy Formation,Potapaco Member,Bed B. |
Eocene |
Nanjemoy |
extensive fauna of shark,ray and fish teeth,plus gavials,crocodiles,and mammals |
VA0061 |
|
|
| Nansemond River |
Suffolk |
VA |
SE VA |
|
|
pelecypod Ostrea |
VA0062 |
|
|
| Suffolk |
Suffolk |
VA |
|
|
|
pelecypod Dosinia |
VA0063 |
|
|
| Chippokes Plantation State Park |
Surry |
VA |
|
|
|
fossils |
VA0064 |
|
|
| Clermont |
Surry |
VA |
In high bluff on South Bank of James River 1.5 km NW. In shell bed about 3 meters above base of bluff |
|
|
mollusks,large pectens,corals,bones,shark teeth |
VA0065 |
|
|
| Cobham Wharf |
Surry |
VA |
0.8km below |
|
|
Ecphora |
VA0066 |
|
|
| Mount Pleasant |
Surry |
VA |
1.3km below mouth of Sunken Meadow Creek |
|
|
Ecphora |
VA0067 |
|
|
| Kenneth Rice fossil Pit and Museum |
Surry? |
VA |
in Harris Creek Road |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks — Chesapecten,Crepidula,Ecphora,Busycon,Turritella,Oliva,Dentalium. Coral Astrangia,Septastrea; Worm tubes. Echinoderms Abertella; Crab claws,Vertebrates – Odontapsis. Carcharodon. |
VA0068 |
Septastrea is Septasbrea in original |
|
| Bluefield |
Tazewell |
VA |
Pennsylvanian brittle stars in Estuary shales |
Pennsylvanian |
|
brittle stars |
VA0069 |
|
|
| Bluefield |
Tazewell |
VA |
at entrance to fairgrounds-airport |
Silurian |
Becraft |
Spirifer,Favosites,Fenestella,Atrypa,Leptaena,Meristella,Nucleospira,Stenochisma,Stropheodonta |
VA0070 |
|
|
| Virginia Beach |
Virginia Beach |
VA |
Womack Pit 500 meters SE of intersection of Kempsville and Indian River roads |
Pleistocene |
Kempsville |
mollusks,fish fragments,shark teeth,marine mammals |
VA0071 |
|
|
| Virginia Beach |
Virginia Beach |
VA |
in Borrow pits |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Mollusks — Chesapecten,Crepidula,Ecphora,Busycon,Turritella,Oliva,Dentalium. Coral Astrangia,Septastrea;Worm tubes. Echinoderms Abertella; Crab claws,Vertebrates -Odontapsis. Carcharodon. |
VA0072 |
Septastrea is Septasbrea in original |
|
| Bristol |
Washington |
VA |
5 km N at Bristol waterworks reservoir along Mumpower Creek |
Cambrian |
Nolichucky |
trilobites — Blountia,Maryvillia,Aphelaspis,Crepicephalus,Agnostus,Dicellomus,Coosia,Tricrepicephalus. |
VA0073 |
|
|
| Greendale |
Washington |
VA |
300 meters SW on US19 in shales and limestones |
Cambrian |
Nolichucky |
trilobites and a few brachiopods. |
VA0074 |
|
|
| Holston |
Washington |
VA |
2 km N in sandstone |
Silurian |
Onondaga |
abundant Cystodictya,Fenestrellina,Amphigenia,Anoplotheca,Anoplia |
VA0075 |
|
|
| Mendota |
Washington |
VA |
roadcut in valley of Little Wolf run |
Mississippian |
Gasper |
Crinoid calyces |
VA0076 |
|
|
| Montross |
Westmoreland |
VA |
At Washington’s birthplace in float along beach |
|
|
shark teeth |
VA0077 |
|
|
| Westmoreland Cliffs-Potomac River |
Westmoreland |
VA |
|
Miocene |
Calvert |
Sharks Teeth |
VA0078 |
|
|
| Westmoreland State Park |
Westmoreland |
VA |
Exposures of Serravallian Calvert and Choptank Fms.,and Tortonian Eastover Fm. |
Miocene |
|
Fossils include shark + ray fauna,cetacean + mammal remains,crocodile teeth,turtle remains,shells. |
VA0079 |
|
|
| Westmoreland State Park |
Westmoreland |
VA |
On Potomac River;collecting permitted |
Miocene |
Calvert |
fossils |
VA0080 |
|
|
| Westmoreland State Park |
Westmoreland |
VA |
on VA3 70 km E of Fredricksburg |
Miocene |
|
shark teeth,vertebrate bones,excellent invertebrates — Carcharodon,Isurus,etc. |
VA0081 |
|
|
| Big Stone Gap |
Wise |
VA |
a wide variety of invertebrates |
Ordovician |
Trenton |
Constellaria,Hebertella,Rhynchotrema,Cyrtodonta |
VA0082 |
|
|
| Austinville |
Wythe |
VA |
2 km E along Clear Creek |
Cambrian |
Shady dolomite |
Ptychoparella,Amecephalina,Archaeocyathus,Nisusia,Kutorgina,Stenotheca,Helcionella,Prozacanthoides,sponges,corals,brachiopods |
VA0083 |
|
|
| Austinville |
Wythe |
VA |
In carbonate beds |
Cambrian Lower |
Shady |
Helcionella,Olenellus,Bonnia,Kootenia,Prozacanthoides,Antagmus,Eoptychoparia,Acrotretida,Nisusia,Coleoloides,Hyolithellus,Salterella,Kutorgina |
VA0084 |
|
|
| Austinville |
Wythe |
VA |
In carbonate beds |
Cambrian Middle |
Shady |
Latouchella,Pagetia,Kootenia,Mexicaspis,Prozacanthoides,Olenoides,Poliella,Onchocephalus,Spencella,Caborcella,Eoptychoparia,Onchocephalites,Amecephalina,Paterina,Nisusia,Hyolithellus |
VA0085 |
|
|
| Fort Chiswell |
Wythe |
VA |
5 km S on VA121 in thin-bedded shale-Limestone |
Cambrian |
Rome? |
Ptychoparella,Amecephalina,Archaeocyathus,Nisusia,Kutorgina,Stenotheca,Helcionella,Prozacanthoides,sponges,corals,brachiopods |
VA0086 |
|
|
| Wytheville |
Wythe |
VA |
5 km E in RR cut |
|
|
Ptychoparella,Amecephalina,Archaeocyathus,Nisusia,Kutorgina,Stenotheca,Helcionella,Prozacanthoides,sponges,corals,brachiopods |
VA0087 |
|
|
| Bellefield-York Peninsula |
York |
VA |
along York River |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Yorktown fossils |
VA0088 |
|
|
| Old Camp Penniman-York Peninsula |
York |
VA |
on York River 1 km SE of Williamsburg |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
Arca,Pecten,whale bones,shark teeth,shark vertebra |
VA0089 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
|
|
|
pelecypod Mercenaria |
VA0090 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
2 km SE on S bank of York River |
|
|
Shell coquinas |
VA0091 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
3.5 km SE |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
12 species |
VA0092 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
along National Colonial Parkway at mouth of Indian Field Creek |
Miocene Upper |
|
mollusks,bones |
VA0093 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
in Zook’s Pit on NW side of VA238 1 km W of Yorktown. |
Miocene |
Yorktown |
? |
VA0094 |
|
|
| Yorktown |
York |
VA |
on NW side of VA238 400 meters NE of VA638 turn off at Zook’s fossil pit (small fee) |
|
|
mollusks |
VA0095 |
|
|
| Old Moore House |
[?] |
VA |
|
|
|
Gastropod – Calliostoma |
VA0096 |
|
|
| Solite Quarry |
[?] |
VA |
Southern VA |
Triassic |
|
well preserved Triassic insects in lacustrian sediments |
VA0097 |
|
|