Also known as Superior Stone Quarry
Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 5459: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Protoscutella plana Conrad 1865 sand dollar
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
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Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin | |
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin | |
Carolinaster varnami n. gen. n. sp.2
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Linthia harmatuki Kier 1980 heart urchin
Linthia hanoverensis Kellum 1926 heart urchin
Linthia wilmingtonensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
Maretia subrostrata heart urchin | |
Mammalia | |
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