South Washington (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.8° 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

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 5449: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus mitchellii, Phyllacanthus carolinensis
Phyllacanthus mitchellii pencil urchin
locality for holotype
Phyllacanthus carolinensis Emmonds 1858 pencil urchin
locality for holotype