USGS 779, 7794 - Lanes Ferry [Castle Hayne Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Rocky Point

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.3° N, 68.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS: Castle Hayne Limestone. AGE: Eocene, according to Miller (1947); Bartonian, according to Kier (1980). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in section.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; poorly lithified, pebbly, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal wackestone and grainstone

• ENVIRONMENT: The Castle Hayne Limestone was deposited in an open, normal salinity environment between 30 m and 100 m in water depth. Comfort Member contains cross-bedded intervals, suggesting some energy, consistent with deep subtidal environment.
• LITHOLOGY: Kier: three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, bryozoan biomicrudite; Kellum: soft white limestone or marl with many fossils. LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis of facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Reposited in the USNM

• COLLECTORS: Unknown, multiple. REPOSITORY: USNM.

Primary reference: L.B. Kellum. 1926. Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Castle Hayne and Trent Marls in North Carolina. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper (143)1-56 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5437: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 04.10.1999, edited by Uta Merkel and Marko Manojlovic

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, and cephalopods. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with relatively recent nomenclature and species-resolution identifications.
Calcarea
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
Bactronella incrustans2 Finks et al. 2011 calcareous sponge
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Aturiidae
Aturia alabamensis4 Morton 1834 nautiloid
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras carolinensis4 Kellum 1926 nautiloid
Gastropoda
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
"Fissuridea penderensis n. sp." = Diodora penderensis
"Fissuridea penderensis n. sp." = Diodora penderensis Kellum 1926 snail
 Cerithioidea - Siliquariidae
"Siliquaria vitis" = Tenagodus vitis
"Siliquaria vitis" = Tenagodus vitis Conrad 1835 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
? Mitra sp. Lamarck 1798 mitre shell
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
? Ptychosalpinx sp. Gill 1867 true whelk
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell
 Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
Caricella sp., "Scaphella (Eucymba) ? ocalana" = Scaphella
Caricella sp. Conrad 1835 volute
"Scaphella (Eucymba) ? ocalana" = Scaphella volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
Cassis ? sp. Scopoli 1777 snail
Phalium sp. Link 1807 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Cypraea "sp. b" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. c" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. d" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
Cypraea "sp. e" Linnaeus 1758 cowry
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1807 carrier shell
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca "sp. a" Linnaeus 1758 ark
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys, Spondylus lamellacea
"Pecten (Chlamys) membranosus" = Chlamys scallop
Spondylus lamellacea Kellum 1926 scallop
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis
"Ostrea trigonalis" = Gigantostrea trigonalis Conrad 1854 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis
"Ostrea sellaeformis" = Cubitostrea sellaeformis Conrad 1832 oyster
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucina sp. Bruguière 1797 clam
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Meiocardia carolinae Harris 1919 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatellites alta" = Crassatella, "Crassatellites "sp. b"" = Crassatella
"Crassatellites alta" = Crassatella clam
"Crassatellites "sp. b"" = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
"Terebratula wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis, "Plicatoria wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis1
"Terebratula wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis Lyell and Sowerby 1845
"Plicatoria wilmingtonensis" = Plicatoria wilmingtonensis1 Lyell and Sowerby 1845
Echinoidea
 Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia wilmingtonensis3 Clark and Twitchell 1915 heart urchin
 Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
"Rhyncholampas carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis3, "Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis, Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) raveneli
"Rhyncholampas carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis3 Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
"Cassidulus (Rhynchopygus) carolinensis" = Rhyncholampas carolinensis Clark and Twitchell 1915 sea urchin
 Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata3 Emmons 1858 sea urchin
in ref. 11173 as E. appendiculatus