W. J. Thompson marl pit: Pliocene, North Carolina
collected by Kerr

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Hadrosaurus tripos n. sp. Cope 1869
1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae
Reptilia - Crocodylomorpha
Polydectes biturgidus Cope 1869
1 specimen
    = Crocodylomorpha indet. Hay 1930
Wagner 2020
This was id'ed as a Cretaceous croc at a locality where a whale was misidentified as a dinosaur!
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Sampson
Coordinates: 35.1° North, 78.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 77.3° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pliocene
Age range of interval:5.33300 - 2.58800 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Duplin
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:blue marl
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: blue marl
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: transition zone/lower shoreface
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:Kerr
Metadata
Also known as:L&W locality 5b
Database number:71155
Authorizer:M. Uhen, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Uhen, P. Wagner
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-04-20 05:54:42 Last modified:2018-09-07 16:48:33
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-20 05:54:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15634.ETE E. D. Cope. 1869. [Remarks on Eschrichtius polyporus, Hypsibema crassicauda, Hadrosaurus tripos, and Polydectes biturgidus]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:191-192 [M. Carrano/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]
35435 E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
15642ETE E. D. Cope. 1871. Observations on the distribution of certain extinct Vertebrata in North Carolina. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:210-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15582 E. D. Cope. 1875. Appendix B. Synposis of the Vertebrata whose remains have been preserved in the formations of North Carolina. In W. C. Kerr, Report of the Geological Survey of North Carolina. Josiah Turner, Raleigh 1:29-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
12319ETE 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]
65064 P. Wagner. 2020. Subspecies kluges: a pointless taxonomic database to create species opinions for subspecies that then will be over-ruled and allow subspecies occurrences to be recognized as the subspecies rather than the parent species. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]