Martin Marietta Quarry [Castle Hayne Limestone] (Eocene of the United States)

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

• a phosphate pebble biomicrudite facies overlain by a bryozoan biosparrudite facies.

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

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Cancridae
"Pororaria granulosa n. sp." = Ceronnectes granulosa
"Pororaria granulosa n. sp." = Ceronnectes granulosa Feldmann et al. 1998 crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia sitzi Blow and Manning 1996 box crab
 Decapoda - Majidae
Wilsonimaia ethelae Blow and Manning 1996 spider crab
 Decapoda - Carpiliidae
Eocarpilius blowi n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1998 crab
 Decapoda - Parthenopidae
Acantholambrus baumi Blow and Manning 1996 crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina raynorae Blow and Manning 1996 crab
Thecostraca
 Calanticomorpha - Calanticidae
Euscalpellum carolinensis2 Zullo and Baum 1981 barnacle
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii1
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii1 Uhen 1999 whale