The Yorktown Formation is a mapped bedrock unit in the Coastal Plain of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. It is overconsolidated and...
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great auk known from fossils that were discovered in the Pliocene Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. Like the great auk, it was a large flightless diving...
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Bonhomme Richard, she was renamed Yorktown while still under construction, after the Yorktown-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), which was sunk at the...
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Megalodon (category Pisco Formation)
nearly complete associated megalodon dentition was excavated from the Yorktown Formations in the United States, and served as the basis of a jaw reconstruction...
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eastern North Carolina, and it is the index fossil for the Lower Yorktown Formation. It is the state fossil of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United...
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United States) †G. howardae Brodkorb, 1953 (San Diego Formation, California and Yorktown Formation, North Carolina †G. moldavica Kessler, 1984 (Late Miocene...
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middlesexensis during the Miocene (Eastover Formation); Chesapecten jeffersonius during Early Pliocene (Lower Yorktown Formation, about 4.5 to 4.3 million years ago);...
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the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina in sediments belonging to the Yorktown Formation, dating to the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene, between 5.3 and 3.6...
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that lived during the Early Pliocene. Known from bones found in the Yorktown Formation of the Lee Creek Mine in North Carolina, it is believed to have split...
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"Teleost fish otoliths from Lee Creek Mine, Aurora, North Carolina (Yorktown Formation: Pliocene)". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 53: 509–529...
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nomen nudum, only published in a PhD dissertation[citation needed] (Yorktown Formation Late Pliocene, North Carolina, USA) Cerorhinca sp. (Early Pliocene...
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Pungo River Formation is a geologic formation in North Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Middle Miocene. The Pungo River Formation is mined...
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R. (2001). "A new fossil frog from the Upper Cretaceous Judith River Formation of Montana". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 21 (1): 190–194. doi:10...
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329064) collected by Ebenezer Emmons from the early Pliocene (Zanclean) Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. In the meantime, marine mammals fossils were being...
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Pliocene deposits of the Bone Valley formation in central Florida, and Lower Pliocene deposits of the Yorktown Formation at Lee Creek in North Carolina. Two...
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"Lamniform and Carcharhiniform Sharks from the Pungo River and Yorktown Formations (Miocene–Pliocene) of the Submerged Continental Shelf, Onslow Bay...
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Capadare Formations (Laventan-Mayoan), Venezuela Pliocene Greta Formation, New Zealand Purisima Formation, California and Yorktown Formation, North Carolina...
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different species of pelecypods and 20 species of gastropods. The Yorktown Formation preserves evidence of another fauna including invertebrates 43 different...
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recovered from: Tiger Bay Mine, Upper Bone Valley Formation, Polk County, Florida Lee Creek Mine, Yorktown Formation, Beaufort County, North Carolina S. D. Webb...
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mostly been found in the Yorktown Formation from North Carolina and two specimens recovered from the Bone Valley Formation in Florida. Remains of this...
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Choptank and Saint Marys formations are the lower group, deposited in the Miocene, while the Eastover and Yorktown formations deposited from the late Miocene...
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stellata) instead. Additional material has been recovered from the Yorktown Formation, North Carolina where in addition more wing bones, there were also...
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saltwater oyster, a fossil that is found in the Yorktown Formation, Chowan River Formation, Waccamaw Formation, and their equivalents in Virginia, North Carolina...
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Late Miocene or Early Pliocene (11.6-3.6 Ma) are abundant in the Yorktown Formation and the Pungo River, North Carolina, and from the Chesapeake Bay region;...
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have been found in Late Miocene to Middle Pliocene strata of the Yorktown Formation in Virginia, USA. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Acteon glans...
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from Early Pliocene (5.3 to 3.6 million year old) deposits in the Yorktown Formation of North Carolina. It was a large species with distinctive features...
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(Late Pleistocene to Modern) † Balaena ricei (Piacenzian; Rice's Pit, Yorktown Formation, Virginia, USA). † Balaena arcuata (Miocene/Pliocene; Belgium) † Balaena...
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Pliocene deposits of the Bone Valley formation in central Florida, and Lower Pliocene deposits of the Yorktown Formation at Lee Creek in North Carolina. Two...
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Black Creek Formation Cretaceous Black Creek Cretaceous Tar Heel Formation Cretaceous Castle Hayne Limestone Paleogene Yorktown Formation Neogene Chowan...
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attempted to intervene, but two Wildcats circling above Yorktown were able to disrupt Ema's formation. Takahashi's bombers damaged Lexington with two bomb...
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