Also known as Martin Marietta Quarry, Renny's Pit
Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• 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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 77585: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008, edited by Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Plicatoria wilmingtonensis2 Lyell and Sowerby 1845 |