Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 68.1° 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
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 5447: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Pecten biddleana n. sp." = Chlamys biddleana
"Pecten biddleana n. sp." = Chlamys biddleana Kellum 1926 scallop | |
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis, Ostrea falco
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Ostrea falco oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin C. (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis var. craveni
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Mammalia | |
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