Where: Jones County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: N3 foram zone, Haywood Landing Member (Belgrade Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 14

•JA: said to be early Miocene, but the Haywood Landing Member belongs to planktonic foram zone N3, which is late Oligocene (Rossbach and Carter 1991)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, phosphatic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71649: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007