Also known as B 25363
Where: North Carolina (35.3° N, 76.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 76.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Chowan RIver Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Exposure of less than 1 m of Chowan River Fm at base of section, overlain by James City Fm. Basinal/regional section name: Lee Creek Mine
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, burrowed, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, original aragonite
Reposited in the USNM
• Collections reposited in USGS and USNM
Primary reference: L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58894: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Turritella perexilis turret shell
Vermicularia spirata Philippi 1836 turret shell | |
"Seila adamsi" = Seila adamsii
"Seila adamsi" = Seila adamsii Lea 1845 snail | |
Serpulorbis granifera Say 1824 worm shell | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
Dentimargo ? polyspria margin shell
Prunum limatulum Conrad 1834 margin shell | |
Teinostoma beaufortensis Ward and Blackwelder 1987 snail | |
Caecum pulchellum snail | |
Turbonilla abrupta snail | |
"Arene pergemma" = Marevalvata tricarinata
"Arene pergemma" = Marevalvata tricarinata Stearns 1872 snail | |
Didianema carolinae snail | |
Diodora nucula snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
Pandora tuomeyi clam | |
Cochlodesma emmonsii Ward and Blackwelder 1987 clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam | |
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Raeta plicatella Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Donax fossor Say 1822 clam | |
Semele bellastriata Conrad 1837 clam | |
Laevicardium sublineatum cockle | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
Pleuromeris auroraensis Ward and Blackwelder 1987 clam
Pleuromeris decemcostata Conrad 1867 clam
Cyclocardia cf. granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Astarte berryi clam
Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Conradostrea lawrencei Ward and Blackwelder 1987 oyster | |
Anadara aequicostata Conrad 1845 ark | |
Glycymeris sloani Ward and Blackwelder 1987 clam
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam |