Also known as YPM-2; Acc.# 7717

Where: Columbus County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Bear Bluff Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Oyster bed, just above marl.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, pebbly, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: JAM, 1985. REPOSITORY: YPM.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 69086: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 17.02.2007

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