James Dawson farm (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Pitt County, North Carolina (35.4° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 76.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Waccamaw Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204631: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Mellitidae
Encope emarginata Leske 1779 sand dollar