Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Duplin Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Duplin Formation. AGE: Late Pliocene. Campbell (1974) suggested an age of zone N-20, or about 3.0-3.5 Ma for the type section of the Duplin Fm at Natural Well, late Pliocene age. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: "Brown phase".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Smith in 1937; reposited in the PRI
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: B. Smith, April 2, 1937. REPOSITORY: PRI. 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 Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions.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 79341: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
"Saccella acuta" = Nuculana acuta
"Saccella acuta" = Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam | |
Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834 clam | |
Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam
Pteromeris perplana Dall 1903 clam | |
Marvacrassatella sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1987 clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam | |
Caryocorbula conradi Gardner 1944 clam | |
Chesacardium acutilaqueatum Conrad 1839 cockle | |
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella)
"Moerella sp." = Tellina (Moerella) Fischer 1887 tellin clam | |
Mulinia congesta Conrad 1833 clam | |
Chione cribraria, "Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella
Chione cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam
"Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella venus clam | |
Conradostrea sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1987 oyster | |
Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Turbonilla sp. Risso 1826 snail | |
Calyptraea centralis Conrad 1841 slipper shell
Crucibulum sp. Schumacher 1817 slipper shell
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
"Olivella carolinae" = Olivella (Dactylidia) carolinae
"Olivella carolinae" = Olivella (Dactylidia) carolinae Gardner 1948 olive snail | |
Urosalpinx sp. Stimpson 1865 murex snail | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Euspira heros Say 1822 moon snail
Tectonatica pusilla Say 1822 moon snail | |
"Turritella duplinensis" = Turritella (Torculoidella) duplinensis
"Turritella duplinensis" = Turritella (Torculoidella) duplinensis Gardner and Aldrich 1919 turret shell |