Due east of Campbell Island (Eocene of the United States)

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.1° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

• Poorly lithified based on fossil preservation

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Tanyoscapha sigmanae n. sp. Cooper 1983