USGS 19020 (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• offshore, rather quiet, water depth no greater than 60 m
• three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrite, bryozoan biomicrudite

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USGS

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 5442: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Rhyncholampas carolinensis
Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Aphrocallistidae
Druidia wilsoni
Druidia wilsoni Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge