Where: Herford County, North Carolina (36.4° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Sunken Meadow Member (Yorktown Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Unit B in Ward 1992 (Fig. 10), ~2.0 m of sand. Collection from Sunken Meadow Mbr of Yorktown Fm, above the Cobham Bay Mbr, Eastover Fm and underlies the Rushmere Mbr of the Yorktown Fm. Local section name: Murfreesboro. Basinal/regional section name: Hertford County.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59300: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
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Placopecten clintonius Say 1824 scallop
Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop | |
Costaglycymeris subovata Say 1824 clam | |
Glossus fraterna Say 1824 clam |