Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 68.7° 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
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: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5386: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999, edited by Mark Uhen, Uta Merkel and Marko Manojlovic
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915 pencil urchin | |
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar | |
Echinocyamus parvus Emmonds 1858 sand dollar | |
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Echinolampas appendiculata Emmons 1858 sea urchin | |
Unifascia carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin | |
Linthia hanoverensis Kellum 1926 heart urchin | |
Maretia subrostrata heart urchin | |
Eupatagus carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin
Eupatagus wilsoni Kier 1980 heart urchin
Eupatagus lawsonae Kier 1980 heart urchin | |
Coelopleurus carolinensis Cooke 1941 sea urchin
Coelopleurus infulatus Morton 1833 sea urchin | |
Mammalia | |
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Gnathostomata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Gastropoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
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"Crassatella alta" = Crassatella uvasana5
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Hexactinellida | |
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Calcarea | |
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Demospongiae | |
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