Also known as Mill Creek, Smith Gut, Benners Estate, Beard Creek, Burton Farm
Where: Pamlico County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 76.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 75.9° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-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 77586: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus |