8 
Clayton E. Ray, Elaine Anderson, S. David Webb 
Co., east-central North Carolina (Fig. 1, loc. 8); 35®25'15"N, 7/^59'35" 
W, Goldsboro 15-minute quadrangle. The specimen was recovered by 
wet screening of sands redeposited in the bed of Smith Mill Run. At 
the same locality Mr. Bailey also has collected remains of Cretaceous 
vertebrates, including a partial femur of a hadrosaur, and of Tertiary 
vertebrates, including sharks, bony fishes, and marine mammals, 
mostly as float. Probably all of the Tertiary marine vertebrates are 
derived from the Pliocene 
Formation, poorly exposed in 
the creek banks, and probably assignable to the Rushmere Member, 
which in Virginia has yielded a glauconite date of 4.4 ± 0.2 mybp 
(Ward and Blackwelder 1980:D31). Although it is conceivable that the 
jaw of Trigonictis could have come from the Yorktown Formation, 
the most probable source is the undifferentiated post-Miocene de- 
posit, consisting of gravels, sands, and clays, of mostly fluviatile 
origin, that mantles much of the Goldsboro area to a depth of 30 feet 
(9 m) (Pusey 1960: 16-17). In detailed studies of the surficial sediments 
of the region, Daniels and Gamble (1974) identified, between the 
Kenly and Surry Scarps, a mappable, medium-fine sand unit, well 
sorted and with little clay, which would have been assigned to the 
“Sunderland” Formation by earlier workers. It is tempting to suppose 
that these sediments may be similar in genesis and age to the “Brandy- 
wine” or “upland deposits” of Maryland, and that the similar speci- 
mens of Trigonictis came from similar deposits in the two areas. Only 
additional, stratigraphically controlled collections will resolve the 
problem. 
Sante Fe River VIII A, Gilchrist Co., northern Florida (Fig. 1, loc. 
9), vertebrate fossil locality in the Santa Fe River about 8 mi. (12.9 
km) E of its confluence with the Suwanee River, SW 1 /4, SE 1 / 4, sec. 
18, T7S, R16E. Fauna closely resembles those from Santa Fe River 
sites I A, I B, IV A. The fauna is late Blancan in age, and includes abundant 
material of Nannippus phlegon (MacFadden and Waldrop 1980). The 
citations of Trigonictis from Santa Fe River I B (Webb 1974: 17) and I 
A (Webb 1976:226) were in error, based on specimens from Santa Fe 
River VIII A. 
Other North American Galictinae. — Trigonictis cookii (Gazin) is 
known in Idaho from Grand View, Jackass Butte locality (Fig. 1, loc. 2), 
and Hagerman, the type locality (Fig. 1, loc. 3); Sand Draw, Frick Pros- 
pecting Locality 277, near Ainsworth, Nebraska (Fig. 1, loc. 5); and Haile 
XVI A, Alachua Co., Florida (Fig. 1, loc. 10), reported herein (tentative 
identification). 
Kurte^n and Anderson (1980:156) noted the presence of T. cookii also 
in the Pliocene of Texas and California. 
Trigonictis sp. has been listed from Cita Canyon, some 15 miles (24.1 
