Martin Marietta Quarry [Castle Hayne Limestone]: Bartonian, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Eocetus wardii
Uhen 1999
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Beatty and Geisler 2010 | 1 specimen | |||||
| recombined as Pachycetus wardii | |||||||
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Thecostraca
- Calanticomorpha
- Calanticidae
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Euscalpellum carolinensis
Zullo and Baum 1981
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Zullo and Baum 1981 | ||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Parthenopidae
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Acantholambrus baumi
Blow and Manning 1996
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Calappidae
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Calappilia sitzi
Blow and Manning 1996
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Majidae
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Wilsonimaia ethelae
Blow and Manning 1996
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Cancridae
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Pororaria granulosa n. sp.
Feldmann et al. 1998
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| recombined as Ceronnectes granulosa | |||||||
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Carpiliidae
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Eocarpilius blowi n. sp.
Feldmann et al. 1998
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Raninidae
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Lophoranina raynorae
Blow and Manning 1996
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| 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 | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| *Period: | Middle Tertiary | *Epoch: | Middle Eocene |
| *International age/stage: | Middle Bartonian - Late/Upper Lutetian | ||
| 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: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Castle Hayne lies unconformably over the PeeDee Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone" |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: a phosphate pebble biomicrudite facies overlain by a bryozoan biosparrudite facies. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | CM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 7297 | ||
| Authorizer: | L. Ivany, A. Hendy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | E. Kowalski, M. Uhen, A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-23 09:00:08 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 16:42:18 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-23 09:00:08 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 470. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 34295 | 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] | |
| 14188 | W. A. Berggren and M.P. Aubry. 1984. Rb-Sr glauconite isochron of the Eocene Castle Hayne Limestone, North Carolina; further discussion. Geological Society America Bulletin 95(3):364-370 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/L. Ivany] | |
| 52210 | V. A. Zullo and G. R. Baum. 1981. Euscalpellum Hoek (Cirripedia: Scalpellidae) from the Eocene of North and South Carolina. South Carolina Geology 25(1):33-41 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |