Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 68.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
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 5381: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin | |
Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin |