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The Pekin Formation is a geological formation in North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

Vertebrate fauna

Vertebrate Vertebrate Vertebrates are animals that are members of the subphylum Vertebrata . Vertebrates are the largest group of chordates, with currently about 58,000 species described. Vertebrates include the jawless fishes, bony fishes, sharks and rays, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds... s of the Pekin Formation
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Genus: Pekinosaurus Pekinosaurus Pekinosaurus is the name given to a genus of pseudosuchian from the Late Triassic. This prehistoric reptile lived in what is now North Carolina, in the United States. The type species, P. olseni, was described by Hunt and Lucas in 1994, based on fossils found in Pekin, North Carolina, whence the... Pekinosaurus olseni

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