Also known as Murfreesborough
Where: Hertford County, North Carolina (36.4° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 76.2° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• no stratigraphic information listed, stratigraphic info from Gibson, 1983
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; argillaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Primary reference: E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 51591: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.06.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Globorotalia cf. crassula" = Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula1 Cushman et al. 1930 | |
Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens1, Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina1, "Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura1, Globoquadrina altispira1
"Globigerina apertura" = Globoturborotalita apertura1 Cushman 1918 | |
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| Mammalia | |
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Mysticeti indet.3 Cope 1891 whale Emmons calls these "three jaw bones" of the genus Balaena. They are clearly vertebrae.
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Ontocetus emmonsi n. gen. n. sp.2
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