Where: Wayne County, North Carolina (35.4° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 77.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Yorktown Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• Local section name: Goldsboro. Basinal/regional section name: Wayne.
•No specific lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text beyond the following: The beds assigned to the Yorktown are grouped for convenience into units lettered A to F, A being the lowest and F being the highest. Collections from Greene county appear to derive from Unit E. Unit E presumably falls within zone 2 of the Yorktown Fm (Gardner 1943). How this equates to the lithostratigraphic members applied in Ward (1992) is unclear. While older literature assigns the Yorktown Formation to the Late Miocene, a late Early Pliocene-Late Pliocene age is assigned to the collection following Ward (1992). Furthemore as the collection is derived from the upper zone of the formation a Late Pliocene age is assigned.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray 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 59331: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys (Lyropecten) jeffersonia" = Chesapecten jeffersonius, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) eborea" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Chlamys (Lyropecten) jeffersonia" = Chesapecten jeffersonius Say 1824 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) eborea" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Kuphus calamus clam | |
Astarte (Ashtarotha) undulata Say 1824 clam |