Paleoecology of a molluscan fauna from the Trent Formation [North Carolina]
A. Barrett Smith
A new locality of the Miocene Trent formation was discovered at Silverdale, Onslow County, North Carolina. Here the formation is an unconsolidated shell marl. The fauna is entirely molluscan. A complete faunal list for the Trent is given showing the species collected by earlier investigators and the number of specimens of each species collected at the new site. The ecology of Recent species of the genera collected from Silverdale was studied from the literature. From this data, the paleoecology of the community was interpreted. The Silverdale community lived in marine waters at depths of about 3 to 22 fathoms. The temperature of the water was from 7 to 40 degrees C. with the average high near 28 to 30 degrees C. The mollusks lived on a sandy to muddy sand substrate in moderately swift currents.
This record provided courtesy of AGI/GeoRef.
