Murfreesboro: Zanclean, North Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hedbergellidae
"Turborotalia" acostaensis
Gibson 1983
original and current combination Globorotalia (Turborotalia)
subspecies humerosa
Globigerinidae
Globoquadrina altispira (Cushman and Jarvis 1936)
Gibson 1983
recombined as Dentoglobigerina altispira
subspecies altispira
Sphaeroidinellopsis subdehiscens
Gibson 1983
subspecies subdehiscens
Sphaeroidinellopsis seminulina (Schwager 1866)
Gibson 1983
subspecies seminulina
Globigerina apertura Cushman 1918
Gibson 1983
recombined as Globoturborotalita apertura
Globorotaliidae
Globorotalia puncticulata
Gibson 1983
Globorotalia cf. crassula Cushman et al. 1930
Gibson 1983
recombined as Globorotalia (Truncorotalia) crassula
Mammalia - Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi n. gen., n. sp. Leidy 1859
Leidy 1859 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea
Balaena sp. Linnaeus 1758
Emmons calls these "three jaw bones" of the genus Balaena. They are clearly vertebrae.
    = Mysticeti indet. Cope 1891
Uhen 2500
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Hertford
Coordinates: 36.4° North, 77.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.5° North, 76.2° 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
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: no stratigraphic information listed, stratigraphic info from Gibson, 1983
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: argillaceous sandstone
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
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Murfreesborough
Database number:51591
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-06-08 13:33:11 Last modified:2020-06-05 15:40:17
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-08 13:33:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13727. E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

17886 T. G. Gibson. 1983. Key foraminifera from upper Oligocene to lower Pleistocene strata of the central Atlantic coastal plain. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 53:355-453 [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]
11897 J. Leidy. 1859. [Remarks on Dromatherium sylvestre and Ontocetus emmonsi]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1859:162 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]