USGS 7800 (Sarpony Hills, Neuse River), Castle Hayne Marl, Wayne Co., NC: Middle Eocene, North Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus
original and current combination Chlamys
Pecten cookei Kellum 1926
recombined as Chlamys cookei
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832
recombined as Cubitostrea sellaeformis
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Wayne
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 78.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.4° North, 67.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Middle Eocene
Age range of interval:47.80000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Castle Hayne
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: The Castle Hayne is described as Jackson (Eocene) in age. Age after Ward et al. 1978.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:glauconitic,green,white lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology:green,blue argillaceous "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: two units are described, from bottom to top: (1) greenish-blue hard argillaceous limestone with echinoid spines and tests; (2) white to greenish-white soft limestone containing some fossil casts, limestone contains some glauconite
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Database number:41927
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:K. Layou
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-07-22 07:33:47 Last modified:2012-09-03 11:21:44
Access level:the public Released:2004-07-22 07:33:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
11173. 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]

Secondary references:

42852 L. W. Ward, D. R. Lawrence, and B. W. Blackwelder. 1978. Stratigraphic revision of the middle Eocene, Oligocene, and lower Miocene-Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Geological Survey Bulletin 1457(F):1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]