Where: Jones County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 66.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castle Hayne Formation, Middle Eocene (47.8 - 37.7 Ma)

• The Castle Hayne is described as Jackson (Eocene) in age. Four units in the Castle Hayne are noted, but only the one described in the lithology section below contains the fossils listed in the occurrence table. Age after Ward et al. 1978.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

Primary reference: L.B. Kellum. 1926. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (143)1-56 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41938: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.07.2004

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