Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.6° 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; pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USGS
Primary reference: P. M. Kier. 1980. The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 39:1-102 [A. Miller/K. Layou]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5376: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999, edited by Uta Merkel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Calcarea | |
Bactronella incrustans n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 calcareous sponge
Bactronella womblei n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 calcareous sponge
Plectroninia pertusa n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 calcareous sponge | |
Demospongiae | |
Claytonia rayi, Hazelina bisbifurcata n. gen. n. sp.
Claytonia rayi Finks et al. 2011 demosponge
Hazelina bisbifurcata n. gen. n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 demosponge | |
Hexactinellida | |
Verrucocoeloidea (Euretella) corallina n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge | |
Druidia wilsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Druidia wilsoni n. gen. n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge | |
Robinia striatopunctata n. gen. n. sp.
Robinia striatopunctata n. gen. n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge | |
Exanthesis ovatus n. sp.
Exanthesis ovatus n. sp. Finks et al. 2011 glass sponge | |
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
Linthia wilmingtonensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
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Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin |