Where: Onslow County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.6° N, 68.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation (Jackson Group), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• The Castle Hayne is described as Jackson (Eocene) in age.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal, yellow 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 41984: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Echinocyamus parvus Emmonds 1858 sand dollar | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten cushmani" = Chlamys cushmani
"Pecten cushmani" = Chlamys cushmani Kellum 1926 scallop | |
Plicatula filamentosa Conrad 1833 scallop |