Where: Nash County, North Carolina (35.9° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• Despite Leidy's claim that this locality is Miocene, it is more likely Pliocene. USGS maps this area as Yorktown & Duplin Formations, undivided.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Leidy. 1877. Description of vertebrate remains, chiefly from the phosphate beds of South Carolina. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8:209-260 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/E. Vlachos]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123228: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 16.01.2012

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