Ft. Barnwell (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Craven County, North Carolina (35.3° N, 77.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 68.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone

• three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, bryozoan biomicrudite

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 5461: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli
Periarchus lyelli Conrad 1834 sand dollar
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
"Paraster sp." = Schizaster (Paraster)
"Paraster sp." = Schizaster (Paraster) Pomel 1869 heart urchin