Where: Onslow County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: N3 foram zone, Haywood Landing Member (Belgrade Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• JA: said to be early Miocene, but the Haywood Landing Member belongs to planktonic foram zone N3, which is late Oligocene (Rossbach and Carter 1991)
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 71651: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Carcharocles angustidens" = Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens1
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Gastropoda | |
Sinum imperforatum Dall 1915 moon snail | |
"Typhis siphonifera" = Siphonochelus (Pilsbrytyphis) siphonifera, Tritonopsis biconica, Tritonopsis gilletti, Ecphora tampaensis
"Typhis siphonifera" = Siphonochelus (Pilsbrytyphis) siphonifera Dall 1915 murex snail
Tritonopsis biconica Dall 1915 murex snail
Tritonopsis gilletti Richards 1943 murex snail
Ecphora tampaensis Dall 1890 murex snail | |
Busycon spiniger onslowensis Kelluk 1926 whelk | |
Fusinus hoffmani Ward 1992 snail | |
Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Dimarzipecten crocus Ward 1992 scallop
Rebeccapecten berryae Ward 1992 scallop | |
"Anadara silverdalensis" = Cunearca silverdalensis, "Anomalocardia floridana" = Anadara (Sectiarca) floridana
"Anadara silverdalensis" = Cunearca silverdalensis Kellum 1926 ark
"Anomalocardia floridana" = Anadara (Sectiarca) floridana Conrad 1846 ark | |
Mya wilsoni Ward 1992 softshell clam | |
Dinocardium taphrium Dall 1900 cockle | |
Donax idoneus Conrad 1872 clam | |
"Macrocallista acuminata" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) acuminata, Mercenaria capax, "Chione spada" = Chione (Chamelea) spada
"Macrocallista acuminata" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) acuminata Dall 1903 venus clam
Mercenaria capax Conrad 1843 quahog
"Chione spada" = Chione (Chamelea) spada Dall 1903 venus clam | |
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam | |
Venericardia nodifera Kellum 1926 clam
Cyclocardia trentensis Ward 1992 clam | |
Astarte claytonrayi Ward 1992 clam
Astarte onslowensis Kellum 1926 clam |