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: Periarchus lyelli zone, Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• According to Powell and Baum, this collection may also fall under the Crassatella alta/Chlamys cawcawensis faunal zone, due to uncertainty of where the C. alta zone begins due to unconformity.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified, shelly/skeletal grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Powell and G. R. Baum. 1982. Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93:1099-1108 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5367: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999

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