Spoil pits adjacent to Mosley Creek (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: North Carolina (35.3° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 59.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moseley Creek Formation (Beaufort Group), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)

• The occurrence of Globorotalia aequa Cushman and Renz, G. pseudomenardii Bolli, G. pseudobulloides (Plummer), and Globigerina triloculinoides Plummer indicates that the sample is Thanetian in age and is part of the P4 planktonic foraminiferal zone. Formerly Beaufort Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, burrowed, nodular, phosphatic, argillaceous sandstone

• Planktic foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton are common. Along with the fine grain size, phosphate nodules, and lack of structures, suggests a fairly offshore environment.
• Clayey and silty fine to very fine sand, phosphate grains common, calcareous nodules, burrows

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by E.C. Womble; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: R. H. Bailey. 1976. Eutrephoceras (Nautiloidea) from the Paleocene Beaufort Formation of North Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 12:235-242 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187615: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.08.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras sloani
Eutrephoceras sloani Reeside 1924 nautiloid