Phoebus Landing (Duplin): Pliocene, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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? Protamia informal large species
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| vertebra; SM 13025 | ||||||||||
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= Cetotheriidae indet.
Brandt 1872
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Boreske 1974 | |||||||||
| possibly Cetotheriidae (Clayton Ray, 1971 pers. com.) | ||||||||||
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= Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Baird and Horner 1979 | |||||||||
| re-ID from Boreske 1974 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Balaenopteridae
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Hadrosaurus tripos
Cope 1869
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Lull and Wright 1942 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae | ||||||||||
| vertebra; USNM 7095 | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
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Protamia informal small species
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| SM 13024-9 | ||||||||||
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= Elasmobranchii indet.
Bonaparte 1838
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Boreske 1974 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Bladen |
| Coordinates: | 34.6° North, 78.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.6° North, 77.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 33 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Duplin | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: erosional remnant of the Duplin Marl | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: transition zone/lower shoreface | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | ichnofossils |
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 71262 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano, M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Carrano, M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-04-23 07:44:01 | Last modified: | 2023-05-31 10:19:45 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2007-10-23 07:44:01 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 23846. | ETE | H. W. Miller, Jr. 1968. Additions to the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Phoebus Landing, North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 84(4):467-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 23842 | D. Baird and J. R. Horner. 1979. Cretaceous dinosaurs of North Carolina. Brimleyana 2:1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 24149 | J. R. Boreske. 1974. A review of the North American fossil amiid fishes. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 146(1):1-87 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 12319 | ETE | R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |