Quankey Creek (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Halifax County, North Carolina (36.3° N, 77.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 76.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; marl
• brackish, shallow, warm to temperate, nearshore
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ)
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Discovery of a huge whale in North Carolina. American Naturalist 4(1):128 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 49982: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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