Also known as B 25359

Where: North Carolina (35.3° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 76.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Chowan RIver Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Exposure of about 3 m of Chowan River Fm near base of section, immediately overlying unconformably the Yorktown Fm, and overlain by James City Fm. Basinal/Regional section name:Lee Creek Mine

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, burrowed, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM

Primary reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58893: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.02.2006

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