Also known as North Carolina Loc. 1

Where: Hyde County, North Carolina (35.5° N, 76.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 76.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Pamlico Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Pamlico Formation (Richards 1962). AGE: Sangamon, Pleistocene (Richards 1962). Little evidence for Wisconsin age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Richards (1936, 1950). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: H. G. Richards. 1962. Studies on the marine Pleistocene: Part II. The marine Pleistocene mollusks of eastern North America. Transactions of the American Philosophocal Society 52(3):1-142 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 66742: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.10.2006

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