Where: North Carolina (34.9° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Probably from the Yorktown Formation. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: PRI, Ithaca. FIDELITY: Moderate ecological fidelity.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79248: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.02.2008

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