USGS 7799 (R.G. Ross farm), Castle Hayne LS, Pender County, N. Carolina (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone

• Kier: three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, bryozoan biomicrudite; Kellum's description based on field notes of L.W. Stephenson from 1906: the Eocene limestone and phosphate rock is seen to ourcrop, it is here overlain by a foot or more of rotten limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the USGS

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 5440: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
corals
Echinoidea
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin
Bivalvia
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Pecchiolia dalliana
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp.
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail