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

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.7° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal grainstone

• a bryozoan biosparrudite 4.4 m thick according to baum (1978, pers. comm.)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 5384: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999, edited by Marko Manojlovic

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Plicatoria wilmingtonensis
Plicatoria wilmingtonensis Lyell and Sowerby 1845
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Probolarina breviostris n. sp.
Probolarina breviostris n. sp. Cooper 1988
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli, Protoscutella plana
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar
Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Rhyncholampas carolinensis
Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia depressa
Eurhodia depressa sea urchin
Eurhodia rugosa depressa, new subspecies
 Spatangoida - Brissidae
Plagiobrissus sp.
Plagiobrissus sp. Pomel 1883 heart urchin
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia harmatuki
Linthia harmatuki Kier 1980 heart urchin
n. sp.