USGS 22329, Lanes Ferry Road: Bartonian, North Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Aphrocallistidae
Druidia wilsoni Finks et al. 2011
Finks et al. 2011 1 specimen
Calcarea - Calcaronea - Minchinellidae
Bactronella womblei Finks et al. 2011
Finks et al. 2011 1 specimen
Bactronella incrustans Finks et al. 2011
Finks et al. 2011 1 specimen
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
Wilsonimaia ethelae n. gen., n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996
Blow and Manning 1996
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Plicatoria wilmingtonensis (Lyell and Sowerby 1845)
Cooper 1988
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris pratti Clark and Twitchell 1915
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata (Emmons 1858)
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli (Conrad 1834)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Pender
Coordinates: 34.4° North, 77.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.3° North, 68.7° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Bartonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Bartonian
Age range of interval:41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Castle Hayne
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:pebbly,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal lithified wackestone
Secondary lithology: lithified grainstone
Lithology description: three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, and bryozoan biomicrudite
Environment:offshore indet.
Geology comments: offshore, rather quiet, water depth no greater than 60 m
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:USGS,USNM
Metadata
Database number:5378
Authorizer:A. Miller, M. Clapham, W. Kiessling Enterer:K. Layou, M. Clapham, U. Merkel, M. Manojlovic
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:1999-09-29 08:21:35 Last modified:2018-02-18 22:45:39
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-29 08:21:35
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

319. P. M. Kier. 1980. The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 39:1-102 [A. Miller/K. Layou]

Secondary references:

12076 W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]
49378 G. A. Cooper. 1988. Some Tertiary Brachiopods of the East Coast of the United States. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology (64)1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]
38295 R. M. Finks, K. Hollocher, and K. J. Thies. 2011. A major Eocene sponge fauna (Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina). Journal of the Carolina Academy of Science 127(2):39-175 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]