Also known as Hilton Park; USGS # 33104

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 55.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: CC25-CC26 nannofossil zone, Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Burleigh and Self-Trail 2006 report that the Peedee Fm in North Carolina spans zones CC25a, CC25b, and CC26a.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: bulk,

• Sohl collection

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and C. F. Koch. 1987. Upper Cretaceous (Maestrichtian) larger invertebrates from the Haustator bilira Assemblage Zone in the Atlantic Coastal Plain with further data for the East Gulf. USGS Open File Report 87-194:1-172 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4363: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 14.08.1999

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