Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.1° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 67.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 98973: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 25.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Crassatella texalta Harris 1895 clam | |
Nuculana plana pointed nut clam | |
"Nuculana magna" = Polidevcia magna
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Nucula (Nucula) ovula Lea 1833 nut clam |