USGS 10626 (Biddle Landing) Castle Hayne marl, Craven Co., 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 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

• three facies in ascending order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, and bryozoan biomicrudite

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
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten biddleana n. sp." = Chlamys biddleana
"Pecten biddleana n. sp." = Chlamys biddleana Kellum 1926 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis, Ostrea falco
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
Ostrea falco oyster
Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
C. (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis var. craveni
 Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia holmesi2 sea urchin
Mammalia
 Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet.1 sirenian