TU 562 - Webb Creek [Silverdale Fm] (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Onslow County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Silverdale Formation, Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the "Silverdale beds", for which lithostratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Late Oligocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• ENVIRONMENT: Not stated in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown. LITHIFICATION: Unknown.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: E. Vokes and H. Vokes. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92719: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to taxa described in text, and subsequent publications. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
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Gastropoda
 Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3
Calyptraea (Trochita) aperta3 Solander 1766 slipper shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Dermomurex (Viator) sexangulus2
Dermomurex (Viator) sexangulus2 Dall 1915 murex snail
 Neogastropoda - Cancellariidae
"Olssonella vokesae n. sp." = Axelella vokesae1
"Olssonella vokesae n. sp." = Axelella vokesae1 Petit 1970 snail
1Petit 1970; 2Vokes 1975; 3Vokes 1975