Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.1° N, 77.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.9° N, 68.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: New Bern Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "New Bern Formation" of Powell & Baum, 1982. Crassatella alta/Chlamys cawcawensis bivalve or Periarchus lyelli echinoid zone. Spring Garden member is latest Claibornian (latest middle Eocene) according to Weaver& Ciampaglio (2003). PJW: I switched this to New Bern. I also changed it to Priabonian from Bartonian. The upper part of the Crassatella alta - Chlamys cawcawensis zone is Priabonian, so this is not inconsistent with the original paper.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: R. J. Powell and G. R. Baum. 1982. Eocene biostratigraphy of South Carolina and its relationship to Gulf Coastal Plain zonations and global changes of coastal onlap. Geological Society of America Bulletin 93:1099-1108 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5365: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 27.09.1999

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