Where: Pitt County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
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 77581: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Orycterocetus cornutidens n. sp.2 Leidy 1856 sperm whale This specimen is only identified as beeing from North Carolina.
Orycterocetus quadratidens1 Leidy 1853 sperm whale This specimen is only identified as beeing from Pitt County.
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Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus | |