Where: North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Silverdale Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Silverdale beds", for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Oligocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes. 1990. Cenozoic Muricidae of the western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex ss, Haustellum, Chicoreus, and Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23(1-3):1-96 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 111195: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.06.2011

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