Where: Herford County, North Carolina (36.4° N, 77.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.6° N, 75.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cobham Bay Member (Eastover Formation), Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Unit A in Ward 1992 (Fig. 10), ~1.0 m of sand. Collection from Cobham Bay Mbr of Eastover Fm, at the base of the section and underlies the Sunken Meadow Mbr of the Yorktown Fm. Local section name: Murfreesboro. Basinal/regional section name: Hertford County
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• Most material appears to be reposited in USNM and USGS collections
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59299: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Placopecten princepoides Emmons 1858 scallop | |
Isognomon (Hippochaeta) sp. oyster | |
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Mercenaria druidi Ward 1992 quahog | |
Astarte rappahannockensis Gardner 1943 clam |