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The Miocene deposits at Wilmington are refe
the Eocene is not mentioned.

“The deposit therefore, at Vance’s Ferry, is probably very limited
in extent and extremely superficial, capping the Cretaceous rocks in the

Same manner as at Wilmington, North Carolina, where a patch only a few
feet thick reposes on the zoophytic Secondary rocks.”

rred to the Pliocene, while

HArtan, R.— Critical Notices of Various Organic Remains itherto Discovered
in North America. (Read May. 21, 1834.) Trans., Geol. Soc, Pa., veld;

Pt. I, 1834, pp. 46-112. Med. Phy. Researches, 1835. (With a few ad-
ditions. )
Quotes from Cuvier’s “Theory of the Earth,” by S. L.

gard to the skeleton of a huge animal found on the bank
River, near Murfreesborough. The vertebral column reco

26 feet and both tail and head were absent. Harlan says:
nized them as the remains of a gig
ably the remains of a whale.

Mitchell, in re-
of the Meherrin
vered measured

“We have recog-
antic species of shark.’ Were prob-

Morton, Samvurn G.—Synopsis of the Organic Remains of the Cretaceous Group
of the United States. Philadelphia, 1834, 88 pp., 19 pls.

Describes the mineralogical and or.

ganic characters of the Cretaceous
and. indicates briefly its known geographic extent in North America. The
“Secondary or Cretaceous group”

is included in the divisions, the Fer-
ruginous sand and the Calcareous strata. The Synopsis proper consists

of descriptions, arranged in systematic order, of the known organic re-
mains of the Cretaceous, including vertebrates and invertebrates.

1885.

Conran, T. A.—Fossil Shelis of the Tertiary Formations of North America.

"NOI Ay NOS. pp. 29-58, pls. 15-18. Phila., 1835. Republished by G. D.
Harris, Washington, 1893.

The Tertiary deposits near New Bern are referred to the “Newer
Pliocene.”

 

Conran, T. A.—Obdservations on a Portion of the Atlantic Tertiary Region.
Geol. Soc. Pa., Trans., vol. 1, pp. 335-341, 1835.

The author states that he was in error in his previous statements con-

cerning the existence of the Miocene in the United States. He asserts that

all Tertiary deposits above the Eocene belong to the Pliocene, which is

divisible into the “Older” and “Newer” Pliocene. Brief mention is made

of the existence of the “Newer Pliocene” in North Carolina.

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Conran, T. A.—Obdservations on the Tertiary Strata of the Atlantic Coast.
Amer. Jour. Sci., vol. 28, pp. 104-111, 280-282, 1935,

The author discusses the Tertiary strata of the Atlantic Coast, and
States that the Miocene is probably wanting. It seems that he would
refer all of what we now call Miocene in North Carolina to the “Medial
Pliocene,” while his “Newer Pliocene” constitutes our Pleistocene. He
gives a list of sixty-seven Species of fossil shells from Mr. Benner’s planta-
tion on the Neuse River, below New Bern, only five of which are extinct
or unknown. He refers the beds to the “Newer Pliocene.” The lists of

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