Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.5° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 76.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene to Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Local section name: Rock Landing. Basinal/regional section name: Craven.

•No specific lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text beyond the following: The beds assigned to the Yorktown are grouped for convenience into units lettered A to F, A being the lowest and F being the highest. Collections from Greene county appear to derive from Unit E. Unit E presumably falls within zone 2 of the Yorktown Fm (Gardner 1943). How this equates to the lithostratigraphic members applied in Ward (1992) is unclear. While older literature assigns the Yorktown Formation to the Late Miocene, a late Early Pliocene-Late Pliocene age is assigned to the collection following Ward (1992). Furthemore as the collection is derived from the upper zone of the formation a Late Pliocene age is assigned.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USNM and USGS collections.

Primary reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59330: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.03.2006

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