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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Macrocallista neusensis venus clam | |
Bathytormus protextus, "Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana
Bathytormus protextus Conrad 1832 clam
"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana Conrad 1855 clam |