Haywood Landing (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Jones County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 71.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: N3 foram zone, Haywood Landing Member (Belgrade Formation), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Mollusk Zone 14

•JA: said to be early Miocene, but the Haywood Landing Member belongs to planktonic foram zone N3, which is late Oligocene (Rossbach and Carter 1991)

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, phosphatic sandstone

• sand, weathered, very shelly, sand-sized phosphate abundant

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. W. Ward. 1992. Molluscan biostratigraphy of the Miocene Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain of North America. Virginia Museum of Natural History 2 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71649: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 02.05.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella tampae
Turritella tampae Heilprin 1887 turret shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sinum imperforatum
Sinum imperforatum Dall 1915 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Donacidae
Donax idoneus
Donax idoneus Conrad 1872 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Stewartia anodonta
Stewartia anodonta Say 1824 clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Cyclocardia trentensis
Cyclocardia trentensis Ward 1992 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte claytonrayi
Astarte claytonrayi Ward 1992 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia ruffini
Anomia ruffini Conrad 1843 jingle
 Arcida - Arcidae
Cunearca silverdalensis
Cunearca silverdalensis Kellum 1926 ark