Onslow Quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as Martin Marietta Quarry, Richlands

Where: Onslow County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

• sequence 3

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: B. L. Beatty and J. H. Geisler. 2010. A stratigraphically precise record of Protosiren (Protosirenidae, Sirenia) from North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie. Abhandlungen 258(2):185-194 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99753: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 20.11.2010

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii
"Eocetus wardii" = Pachycetus wardii Uhen 1999 whale