USGS 8165 (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 68.1° 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, bryozoan biomicrudite

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 5444: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

• in Kellum (1926), the occurrences table has USGS locality 8165 listed, but the locality descriptions do not include USGS 8165. There is a USGS 8169, but no taxa are noted from this locality. Thus, the taxa from Kellum (1926) listed from USGS 8165 were added to this collection.
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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella conradi
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia holmesi
Eurhodia holmesi sea urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
C. (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis var. craveni