Section 4 (Chowan River Fm) - Lee Creek Mine: Late/Upper Pliocene, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Areneidae
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Arene pergemma
(Gardner 1948)
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synonym of Marevalvata tricarinata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Liotiidae
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Didianema carolinae
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Gastropoda
- Lepetellida
- Fissurellidae
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Diodora nucula
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella perexilis
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Vermicularia spirata
(Philippi 1836)
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Gastropoda
- Cerithiopsidae
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Seila adamsi
(Lea 1845)
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recombined as Seila adamsii | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Vermetidae
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Serpulorbis granifera
(Say 1824)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Olividae
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Olivella mutica
(Say 1822)
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum limatulum
(Conrad 1834)
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Dentimargo ? polyspria
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Gastropoda
- Tornidae
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Teinostoma beaufortensis
Ward and Blackwelder 1987
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Gastropoda
- Caecidae
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Caecum pulchellum
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Turbonilla abrupta
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula proxima
Say 1820
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recombined as Nucula (Nucula) proxima | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Nuculana acuta
(Conrad 1832)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassinella dupliniana
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[entered as Crassinella dupliana] | ||||||||||
Crassinella lunulata
(Conrad 1834)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cyclocardia cf. granulata
(Say 1824)
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Pleuromeris decemcostata
Conrad 1867
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Pleuromeris auroraensis
Ward and Blackwelder 1987
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte berryi
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Astarte concentrica
Conrad 1834
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Bivalvia
- Thraciida
- Periplomatidae
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Cochlodesma emmonsii
Ward and Blackwelder 1987
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Bivalvia
- Pandorida
- Pandoridae
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Pandora tuomeyi
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Bivalvia
- Solenida
- Pharidae
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Ensis directus
(Conrad 1844)
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula auroraensis
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original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Gouldia metastriata
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[entered as Gouldia metastriatum] | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Anatinellidae
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Raeta plicatella
(Lamarck 1818)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Laevicardium sublineatum
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Semelidae
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Semele bellastriata
(Conrad 1837)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Donacidae
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Donax fossor
Say 1822
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris americana
(Defrance 1826)
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Glycymeris sloani
Ward and Blackwelder 1987
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara aequicostata
(Conrad 1845)
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Conradostrea lawrencei
Ward and Blackwelder 1987
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula marginata
Say 1824
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synonym of Plicatula gibbosa | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina |
Coordinates: | 35.3° North, 76.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.3° North, 76.0° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Chowan RIver | ||||
Local section: | Section 4 | Local bed: | B | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Exposure of less than 1 m of Chowan River Fm at base of section, overlain by James City Fm. Basinal/regional section name: Lee Creek Mine |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | burrows,coarse,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Olive gray coarse sand, bedded, burrowed, mottled, partly indurated with differential leaching. Fine shell in unleached portions. | |
Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
Geology comments: Shallow shelf at a water depth of approximately 15 m, most of the beds being at a depth of 20 m or slightly greater. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,cast,original aragonite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Collection method comments: Collections reposited in USGS and USNM | |
Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Mollusca and with good nomenclature. |
Metadata
Also known as: | B 25363 | ||
Database number: | 58894 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-02-28 11:35:12 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-02-28 11:35:12 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
16700. | L. W. Ward and B.W. Blackwelder. 1987. Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene Mollusca from the James City and Chowan River Formations at Lee Creek Mine. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 61:113-283 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen] |