Fort Fisher (Holocene of the United States)

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.0° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 77.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Primary reference: J. B. Funderburg. 1960. Fossil manatee from North Carolina. Journal of Mammalogy 41(4):521 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 65172: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Sirenia - Trichechidae
Trichechus manatus latirostris Harlan 1824 manatee
 Cetacea - Epiodontidae
Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier 1824 Cuvier's beaked whale