Superior Stone Company quarry (Pliocene of the United States)

Also known as Martin Marietta Quarry, Renny's Pit

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Yorktown Formation (Chesapeake Group), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77585: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus
 Carnivora - Phocidae
Monachinae indet.1 Trouessart 1897 seal
Callophoca obscura3 Van Beneden 1876 seal
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Plicatoria wilmingtonensis2 Lyell and Sowerby 1845