Yadkin Pit (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Norfolk County, Virginia (36.8° N, 76.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 75.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation, Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77578: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus
one of the two speicmens is from the Chowan River Formation, but thought to be reworked from the Yorktown