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
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Hadrosaurus tripos n. sp.
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Balaenopteridae | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodylomorpha
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Polydectes biturgidus
Cope 1869
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Crocodylomorpha indet.
Hay 1930
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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] | |
15642 | ETE | 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] | |
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] |
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] |