USGS 19019 Maple Hill (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, argillaceous limestone

• offshore, rather quiet, water depth no greater than 60 m

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Finks, K. Hollocher, and K. J. Thies. 2011. A major Eocene sponge fauna (Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina). Journal of the Carolina Academy of Science 127(2):39-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119415: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Dactylocalycidae
Exanthesis ovatus
Exanthesis ovatus Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge