Goldsboro - Yorktown Formation, Zanclean (Pliocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS Station 60

Where: Wayne County, North Carolina (35.4° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 77.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, gray sandstone

• No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text.
• Gray sand containing many entire and broken shells.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USNM and USGS collections.

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 77582: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative.
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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus