Where: Jones County, North Carolina (35.1° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 73.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Originally collected and locality described by B.L. Miller, who identified the strata as Eocene, but fossils are identified by author as Trent, and therefore, Miocene in age.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

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 41993: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 22.07.2004

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