Quankey Creek: Zanclean, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Mesoteras kerrianus n. gen., n. sp.
Cope 1870
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Cope 1870 | 1 specimen | |||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Mysticeti | |||||||
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Delphinapterus orcinus n. sp.
Cope 1875
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Trouessart 1898 | ||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Odontoceti | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Odobenidae
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Ontocetus emmonsi
Leidy 1859
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Kohno and Ray 2008 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Halifax |
| Coordinates: | 36.3° North, 77.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.4° North, 76.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Zanclean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Chesapeake | Formation: | Yorktown |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | marl |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: brackish, shallow, warm to temperate, nearshore | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 49982 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | B. Shipps | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-05-03 08:25:13 | Last modified: | 2017-02-26 16:45:23 |
| Access level: | database members | Released: | 2005-08-03 08:25:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 12633. | E. D. Cope. 1870. Discovery of a huge whale in North Carolina. American Naturalist 4(1):128 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 13420 | E. D. Cope. 1870. Fourth contribution to the history of the fauna of the Miocene and Eocene periods of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 11:285-294 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
| 26222 | 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] | |
| 7584 | M. C. McKenna and S. K. Bell. 1997. Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level 1-640 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 13421 | E. L. Trouessart. 1898. Catalogus mammalium tam viventium quam fossilum 5:665-1264 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |