Also known as L&W locality 4, milepost 68, Cape Fear

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 50.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• uppermost part of the formation and within the Exogyra ponderosa zone

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•Recent pollen analysis (Self-Trail et al., 2004) determined that the vertebrate fauna from the Tar Heel Formation at Phoebus Landing is from the upper part of the early Campanian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; argillaceous, sandy siltstone and lenticular sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Berry & Stephenson in 1905, 1907; reposited in the AMNH, USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Also North Carolina State Museum of Natural History (NCSM)

Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57918: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 06.01.2006, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson, Mark Uhen and John Alroy

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