Description
Lee Creek Dolphin Tooth
- Dolphin – Undetermined Species
- Miocene Age
- Pungo River Formation
- Lee Creek Mine
- Aurora, North Carolina
- Specimen measures approx. 1.11″ long. Specimen will come in a 1.75″ Gem Jar
- More Mammal Fossils for Sale
Dolphins first appear as fossils from the Early Miocene Epoch (23 million to 16 million years ago). A time when the cetacean fauna was more diverse. All of today’s dolphin groups were present in the Miocene. Additionally there were at least three extinct families whose members would be called dolphins. (Eurhinodelphidae, Hemisyntrachelidae, and Acrodelphidae).
The Lee Creek Mine (formally PotashCorp-Aurora, currently Nutrien) located in Aurora, NC is one of the most important scientific localities in the world for Miocene and Pliocene fossils that have been studied extensively by the Smithsonian Institution for over 40 years. The Lee Creek Mine holds a place of honor among all of the premiere fossil sites on the planet, and the number of important finds from this locality is countless.
