Murfreesboro: Zanclean, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Globorotaliidae
|
||||||||||
Globorotalia puncticulata
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
Globorotalia cf. crassula
Cushman et al. 1930
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
recombined as Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula | ||||||||||
Globigerinidae
|
||||||||||
Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
subspecies subdehiscens | ||||||||||
Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina
(Schwager 1866)
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
subspecies seminulina | ||||||||||
Globigerina apertura
Cushman 1918
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
recombined as Globoturborotalita apertura | ||||||||||
Globoquadrina altispira
(Cushman and Jarvis 1936)
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
recombined as Dentoglobigerina altispira | ||||||||||
subspecies altispira | ||||||||||
Hedbergellidae
|
||||||||||
"Turborotalia" acostaensis
|
Gibson 1983 | |||||||||
original and current combination Globorotalia (Turborotalia) | ||||||||||
subspecies humerosa | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
|
||||||||||
Balaena sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
||||||||||
Emmons calls these "three jaw bones" of the genus Balaena. They are clearly vertebrae. | ||||||||||
= Mysticeti indet.
Cope 1891
|
Uhen 2500 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
|
||||||||||
Ontocetus emmonsi n. gen., n. sp.
Leidy 1859
|
Leidy 1859 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Hertford |
Coordinates: | 36.4° North, 77.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 76.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Yorktown | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: no stratigraphic information listed, stratigraphic info from Gibson, 1983 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | argillaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Geology comments: brackish, shallow, warm to temperate, nearshore |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Murfreesborough | ||
Database number: | 51591 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2005-06-08 13:33:11 | Last modified: | 2020-06-05 15:40:17 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-06-08 13:33:11 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
13727. | E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
17886 | T. G. Gibson. 1983. Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53:355-453 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26222 | N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
11897 | J. Leidy. 1859. [Remarks on Dromatherium sylvestre and Ontocetus emmonsi]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1859:162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |