UNCW Loc. Z-755 - Lee Creek Mine [Yorktown Fm]: Early/Lower Pliocene, North Carolina
collected by Zullo
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Thecostraca
- Balanomorpha
- Balanidae
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Arossia aurae
Zullo 1992
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina |
| Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 76.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.4° North, 75.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Yorktown | ||||
| Regional section: | Yorktown | Regional bed: | Zone 1 | ||
| Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Yorktown Formation, for which stratigraphic relations are not discussed. AGE: Upper Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Zone 1 (Placopecten clintonius) of the upper Yorktown Fm. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Not described in text. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, on the basis of figured specimen. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collectors: | Zullo |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: V. Zullo. REPOSITORY: University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Limited to Cirripedia. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with somewhat antiquate nomenclature, but species resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 160351 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-08-17 21:49:31 | Last modified: | 2014-08-21 12:03:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-08-17 21:49:31 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52284. | V. A. Zullo. 1992. Revision of the balanid barnacle genus Concavus Newman, 1982, with the description of a new subfamily, two new genera, and eight new species. The Paleontological Society Memoir 27:1-46 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |