Where: Pitt County, North Carolina (35.4° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 68.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5380: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster | |
Anomia sp. Linnaeus 1758 jingle | |
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys, "Pecten cushmani n. sp." = Chlamys cushmani, "Pecten cookei" = Chlamys cookei
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys scallop
"Pecten cushmani n. sp." = Chlamys cushmani Kellum 1926 scallop
"Pecten cookei" = Chlamys cookei Kellum 1926 scallop | |
Echinoidea | |
Eurhodia holmesi sea urchin | |
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis
"Cassidulus (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin C. (Pygorhynchus) carolinensis var. craveni n. var.
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