Lanier Quarry (CM collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• 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: deep subtidal; shelly/skeletal limestone

• clear, normal marine salinity, warm temperate to subtropical temperatures with an average of about 20 degrees C
• a phosphate pebble biomicrudite facies overlain by a bryozoan biosparrudite facies.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

Collection methods: bulk, 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 7299: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000, edited by Linda Ivany and Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
"Eocetus wardii n. sp." = Pachycetus wardii2
"Eocetus wardii n. sp." = Pachycetus wardii2 Uhen 1999 whale
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia sitzi Blow and Manning 1996 box crab
 Decapoda - Majidae
Wilsonimaia ethelae Blow and Manning 1996 spider crab
 Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
"Glyphithyreus sturgeoni n. sp." = Lobonotus sturgeoni
"Glyphithyreus sturgeoni n. sp." = Lobonotus sturgeoni Feldmann et al. 1998 crab
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Pilummede penderensis1 Ossó and Clements 2021 crab
 Decapoda - Matutidae
Matutites miltonorum n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1998 crab
 Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina raynorae Blow and Manning 1996 crab
"Cyrtorhina fusseli" = Antonioranina fusseli Blow and Manning 1996 crab