Murfreesboro (Pliocene of the United States)

Also known as Murfreesborough

Where: Hertford County, North Carolina (36.4° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• no stratigraphic information listed, stratigraphic info from Gibson, 1983

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous sandstone

• brackish, shallow, warm to temperate, nearshore

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Primary reference: E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51591: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina seminulina1, Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens subdehiscens1
unclassified
  -
"Turborotalia" acostaensis humerosa1
Foraminifera
 Globigerinoidea - Globorotaliidae
Globorotalia puncticulata1, "Globorotalia cf. crassula" = Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula1
"Globorotalia cf. crassula" = Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula1 Cushman et al. 1930
 Globigerinoidea - Globigerinidae
"Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura1, Globoquadrina altispira altispira1
"Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura1 Cushman 1918
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi n. gen. n. sp.2
Ontocetus emmonsi n. gen. n. sp.2 Leidy 1859 walrus
 Cetacea -
Mysticeti indet.3
Mysticeti indet.3 Cope 1891 whale
Emmons calls these "three jaw bones" of the genus Balaena. They are clearly vertebrae.
1Gibson 1983; 2Leidy 1859; 3Uhen 2500