Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Duplin Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

• No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. From Siple (1957) "The Duplin in South Carolina is considered to be equivalent to the upper Yorktown of Virginia and the Cancellaria biofacies within the Choctawhatchee stage of Florida." AGE: Late Pliocene. Campbell (1974) suggested an age of zone N-20, or about 3.0-3.5 Ma for the type section of the Duplin Fm at Natural Well, late Pliocene age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, medium-grained, coarse, shelly/skeletal, gray, blue, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USNM and USGS collections.

Primary reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59307: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006, edited by Mark Uhen

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