Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS, USNM
Primary reference: P. M. Kier. 1980. The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 39:1-102 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5378: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999, edited by Uta Merkel, Matthew Clapham and Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Echinoidea | |
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Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
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Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
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Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Plicatoria wilmingtonensis2 Lyell and Sowerby 1845 | |
| Malacostraca | |
Wilsonimaia ethelae n. gen. n. sp.1
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| Hexactinellida | |
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| Calcarea | |
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