Where: Jones County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 72.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trent Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• collection by G.D. Harris, sample from a "marly bed in the so-called Trent Formation"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

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 41991: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.07.2004

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