Belgrade Quarry, River Bend Formation (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Onslow County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: River Bend Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; phosphatic, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
• biocalcirudite, sandy
Size class: macrofossils
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71650: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Echinoidea | |
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Gagaria mossomi Cooke 1941 sea urchin | |
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Arbia aldrichi Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin | |
Echinocyamus wilsoni n. sp.
Echinocyamus wilsoni n. sp. Kier 1997 sand dollar | |
"Agassizia mossomi" = Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi
"Agassizia mossomi" = Agassizia (Anisaster) mossomi Cooke 1942 heart urchin | |
| Gastropoda | |
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Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Anomia ruffini Conrad 1843 jingle | |
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Rebeccapecten trentensis Harris 1919 scallop
Pecten chickaria scallop | |
"Crassostrea gigantissima" = Striostrea gigantissima
"Crassostrea gigantissima" = Striostrea gigantissima Finch 1824 oyster | |
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Modiolus sp. Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
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Mercenaria capax Conrad 1843 quahog | |
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Cardium belgradensis cockle | |
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Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
"Crassatella mississippiensis" = Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis
"Crassatella mississippiensis" = Crassatella (Crassatella) mississippiensis Conrad 1848 clam | |
| Thecostraca | |
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Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |