Loc. 44. Prettyman Landing, left bank of the Trent River (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Jones County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 68.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal, sandy grainstone

• Lithology suggests high-energy shallow subtidal environment
• Tan to gray arenaceous molluscan-mold biocalcirudite

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: L. W. Ward, D. R. Lawrence, and B. W. Blackwelder. 1978. Stratigraphic revision of the middle Eocene, Oligocene, and lower Miocene-Atlantic Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Geological Survey Bulletin 1457(F):1-23 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228754: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 03.01.2023

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Bathytormus protextus Conrad 1832 clam
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam