Phoebus Landing (Duplin) (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 77.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Duplin Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• erosional remnant of the Duplin Marl

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; marl

• transition zone/lower shoreface

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: H. W. Miller, Jr. 1968. Additions to the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate fauna of Phoebus Landing, North Carolina. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 84(4):467-471 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71262: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 23.04.2007, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Cetacea indet.1
Cetacea indet.1 Brisson 1762 whale
vertebra; SM 13025
 Cetacea - Balaenopteridae
Hadrosaurus tripos3
Hadrosaurus tripos3 Cope 1869 rorqual
vertebra; USNM 7095
Chondrichthyes
 Elasmobranchii -
Elasmobranchii indet.2
Elasmobranchii indet.2 Bonaparte 1838 elasmobranch
SM 13024-9
1Baird and Horner 1979; 2Boreske 1974; 3Lull and Wright 1942