Vanceboro is a fossil collection site in Craven, North Carolina, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Castle Hayne Formation, dated to the Bartonian (41.03–37.71 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as marine indet. Documented finds include Pachycetus wardii.

Geologic setting

Formation: Castle Hayne
Geologic interval: Bartonian
Age: 41.03–37.71 Ma
Depositional environment: marine indet.
Recorded occurrences: 1

Fossils found here

Pachycetus wardii

Mammalia · Basilosauridae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 132664 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Can you collect at Vanceboro?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

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Fossil.

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Source: Paleobiology Database.