USGS 10621 (Rose Hill station,A.R. Bland farm) Castle Hayne marl, Duplin Co., NC (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 69.0° 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

• Kier: three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, bryozoan biomicrudite; Kellum: bluish-white marl, consisting chiefly of ground shell

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 5458: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Protoscutella conradi
Protoscutella conradi Cotteau 1891 sand dollar
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster