Martin Marietta Borrow Pit (Pliocene of the United States)

Also known as Clarks

Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.6° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 76.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; 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 77584: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus