YPM bulk sample [Bear Bluff Fm]: Late/Upper Pliocene, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella prexellis
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Marginellidae
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Prunum limatulum
(Conrad 1834)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Naticidae indet.
Guilding 1834
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Nuculanidae
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Saccella acuta
(Conrad 1832)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Nuculana acuta | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Carditamera arata
(Conrad 1832)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Cyclocardia granulata
(Say 1824)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Astartidae
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Astarte crenata
(Gray 1824)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pholadida
- Corbulidae
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Caryocorbula sp.
(Gardner 1926)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Corbula (Caryocorbula) | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar chioneformis
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29 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Chamidae
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Chama sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Glycymeris americana
(Defrance 1826)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
| LISTED AS: G. americana | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Conradostrea sculpturata
(Conrad 1840)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Ostrea disparilis
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28 specimens | |||||||||
| COMMENTS: or O. sculpturata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Plicatulidae
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Plicatula marginata
Say 1824
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13 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Plicatula gibbosa | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Columbus |
| Coordinates: | 34.3° North, 78.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.4° North, 77.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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: | Bear Bluff | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Bear Bluff Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Oyster bed, just above marl. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | pebbly,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Poorly-lithified, based on observation of specimens. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, siliciclastic environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,original calcite |
| Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Minimum sieve size: | 4.000 |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | YPM |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: JAM, 1985. REPOSITORY: YPM. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Gardner (1943) [16984] and DuBar (1971) [PBDB Ref# 17556]. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | YPM-2; Acc.# 7717 | ||
| Database number: | 69086 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-02-17 15:52:48 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2008-02-17 15:52:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19909. | A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |