Atlantic LS Co. Quarry (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.9° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 69.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone
• three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, and 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 5382: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 29.09.1999