Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 68.7° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Castle Hayne lies unconformably over the PeeDee Formation.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the CM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, K. L. Bice, C. Schweitzer Hopkins, E. W. Salva, and K. Pickford. 1998. Decapod crustaceans from the Eocene Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina: paleoceanographic implications. Journal of Paleontology 72(Supplement):1-28 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 7297: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000, edited by Mark Uhen and Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
"Pororaria granulosa n. sp." = Ceronnectes granulosa
"Pororaria granulosa n. sp." = Ceronnectes granulosa Feldmann et al. 1998 crab | |
Calappilia sitzi Blow and Manning 1996 box crab | |
Wilsonimaia ethelae Blow and Manning 1996 spider crab | |
Eocarpilius blowi n. sp.
Eocarpilius blowi n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1998 crab | |
Acantholambrus baumi Blow and Manning 1996 crab | |
Lophoranina raynorae Blow and Manning 1996 crab | |
Thecostraca | |
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Mammalia | |
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii1
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