Where: Beaufort County, North Carolina (35.4° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: basal Member (Yorktown Formation), Piacenzian (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• Dowsett et al. 2021: Yorktown Formation was deposited during the mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (3.264 to 3.025 Ma). Maximum age ranges of the Rushmere Member are 3.3.–3.2 Ma, and for the Morgarts Beach Member are 3.2–3.15 Ma.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. H. Tedford and M. E. Hunter. 1984. Miocene marine-nonmarine correlations, Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plains, North America. Palaeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 47:129-151 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18550: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Philip Mannion

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