Ideal Cement Co. quarry (Castle Hayne LS, N. Carolina): Bartonian, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Pynonodonte sp.
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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Echinolampas appendiculata
(Emmons 1858)
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Fibulariidae
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Echinocyamus parvus
Emmonds 1858
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Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Periarchus lyelli
(Conrad 1834)
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Neolampadidae
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Eurhodia ideali
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Eurhodia rugosa ideali, new subspecies | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Linthia hanoverensis
Kellum 1926
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Prenasteridae
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Unifascia carolinensis
(Clark and Twitchell 1915)
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Spatangidae
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Maretia subrostrata
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Brissidae
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Eupatagus lawsonae
Kier 1980
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Eupatagus carolinensis
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Eupatagus wilsoni
Kier 1980
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Echinoidea
- Arbacioida
- Arbaciidae
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Coelopleurus carolinensis
Cooke 1941
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Coelopleurus infulatus
(Morton 1833)
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Echinoidea
- Cidaroida
- Cidaridae
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Cidaris pratti
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Chondrichthyes
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Chondrichthyes sp.
Huxley 1880
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
Illiger 1811
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Domning et al. 1982 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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Uhen 2013 | |||||||||
Gastropoda
- Xenophoridae
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Xenophora sp.
Fischer von Waldheim 1807
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pholadomyida
- Pholadomyidae
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Pholadomya sp.
Sowerby 1823
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatella alta
Conrad 1855
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
synonym of Crassatella uvasana | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Venericardia sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Pecten membranosus
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Pecten sp.
Müller 1776
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Spondylidae
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Spondylus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Barbatia sp.
Gray 1842
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Arca sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Ward 2007 | |||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Terebratulida
- Terebratulidae
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Plicatoria wilmingtonensis
(Lyell and Sowerby 1845)
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Cooper 1983 | 600 specimens | ||||||||
about 600 | ||||||||||
Hexactinellida
- Innaecoeliida
- Craticulariidae
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Laocoetis cf. crassipes
Pomel 1872
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Finks et al. 2011 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
Hexactinellida
- Hexactinosa
- Aphrocallistidae
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Druidia wilsoni
Finks et al. 2011
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Finks et al. 2011 | 57 specimens | ||||||||
Calcarea
- Calcaronea
- Minchinellidae
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Bactronella womblei
Finks et al. 2011
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Finks et al. 2011 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Demospongiae
- Clavulina
- Clionaidae
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"Cliona" sp.
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Finks et al. 2011 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | New Hanover |
Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 77.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° 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: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 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 wackestone |
Secondary lithology: | 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 |
Metadata
Database number: | 5386 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, M. Clapham, M. Uhen, W. Kiessling | Enterer: | K. Layou, M. Uhen, M. Manojlovic, U. Merkel |
Modifier: | M. Manojlovic | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-09-29 09:39:58 | Last modified: | 2013-12-11 20:08:23 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-29 09:39:58 |
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:
43337 | G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham] | |
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] | |
12993 | D. P. Domning, G. S. Morgan, and C. E. Ray. 1982. North American Eocene sea cows (Mammalia: Sirenia). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 52:1-69 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd] | |
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] | |
42488 | M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
48009 | L. W. Ward. 2007. Stratigraphy of outcropping Eocene and Oligocene formations-Coastal Plain of the Carolinas. Virginia Museum of Natural History Guidebook 4:1-26 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |