Greens Mill Run: Eocene, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Pitt |
Coordinates: | 35.6° North, 77.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 65.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2-3 | ||
Key time interval: | Eocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Castle Hayne |
Stratigraphic resolution: | formation |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
Database number: | 132701 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-08-25 02:03:53 | Last modified: | 2012-08-24 11:03:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-25 02:03:53 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
42488. | M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |