Atlantic LS Co. Quarry (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.8° 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

• three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, and bryozoan biomicrudite

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 5382: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia ideali sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa ideali, new subspecies
Santeelampas oviformis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin