Also known as Rocky Point
Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS: Castle Hayne Limestone. AGE: Eocene, according to Miller (1947); Bartonian, according to Kier (1980). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; poorly lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Reposited in the USNM
• COLLECTORS: Unknown, multiple. REPOSITORY: USNM.
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 5437: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Uta Merkel and Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Calcarea | |
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Cephalopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Fissuridea penderensis n. sp." = Diodora penderensis
"Fissuridea penderensis n. sp." = Diodora penderensis Kellum 1926 snail | |
"Siliquaria vitis" = Tenagodus vitis
"Siliquaria vitis" = Tenagodus vitis Conrad 1835 snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
? Mitra sp. Lamarck 1798 mitre shell | |
? Ptychosalpinx sp. Gill 1867 true whelk | |
Conus ? mutilatus cone shell
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
Caricella sp., "Scaphella (Eucymba) ? ocalana" = Scaphella
Caricella sp. Conrad 1835 volute
"Scaphella (Eucymba) ? ocalana" = Scaphella volute | |
Cassis ? sp. Scopoli 1777 snail
Phalium sp. Link 1807 snail | |
Cypraea "sp. b" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. c" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. d" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. e" Linnaeus 1758 cowry | |
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Arca "sp. a" Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys, Spondylus lamellacea
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys scallop
Spondylus lamellacea Kellum 1926 scallop | |
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster | |
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam | |
Pecchiolia dalliana clam | |
Meiocardia carolinae Harris 1919 clam | |
Pitaria ? securiformis venus clam | |
"Crassatellites alta" = Crassatella, "Crassatellites "sp. b"" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites alta" = Crassatella clam
"Crassatellites "sp. b"" = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Terebratulina lachryma Morton 1833 | |
"Terebratula wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis, "Plicatoria wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis1
"Terebratula wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis Lyell and Sowerby 1845
"Plicatoria wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis1 Lyell and Sowerby 1845 | |
Echinoidea | |
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"Rhyncholampas carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis3, "Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis, Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) raveneli
"Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) raveneli sea urchin | |
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