Usage:
Moseley Creek Member of Beaufort Formation (NC)
Geologic age:
Tertiary
Paleocene
Thanetian
Type section, locality, area and/or origin of name:
Type locality (holotype): along Moseley Creek at the Lenoir-Craven Co. line, 10 km east of Kinston, NC (section from Harris and Baum, 1977: GSA Bull, v. 88, no. 6, p. 869-872).
AAPG geologic province:
Atlantic Coast basin
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