Lanier Quarry (CM collection): Bartonian, North Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Eocetus wardii n. sp. Uhen 1999
Uhen 1999 1 individual
recombined as Pachycetus wardii
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Tumidocarcinidae
Glyphithyreus sturgeoni n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1998
recombined as Lobonotus sturgeoni
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Matutidae
Matutites miltonorum n. sp. Feldmann et al. 1998
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Titanocarcinus euglyphos Bittner 1875
    = Pilummede penderensis Ossó and Clements 2021
Ossó and Clements 2016
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Majidae
Wilsonimaia ethelae Blow and Manning 1996
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia sitzi Blow and Manning 1996
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Raninidae
Lophoranina raynorae Blow and Manning 1996
Cyrtorhina fusseli Blow and Manning 1996
recombined as Antonioranina fusseli
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Pender
Coordinates: 34.6° North, 77.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.5° North, 68.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
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 "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: a phosphate pebble biomicrudite facies overlain by a bryozoan biosparrudite facies.
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Geology comments: clear, normal marine salinity, warm temperate to subtropical temperatures with an average of about 20 degrees C
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:CM
Metadata
Database number:7299
Authorizer:L. Ivany, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Kowalski, M. Clapham, L. Ivany
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-05-23 09:11:27 Last modified:2022-07-07 10:03:14
Access level:the public Released:2000-05-23 09:11:27
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:

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]
72209 À Ossó and D. Clements. 2016. A new genus and species: Pilummede penderensis (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Castle Hayne Limestone Formation (Eocene) of Pender County, North Carolina (USA). Paleontología Mexicana 5(2):137-145 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Clapham]
8810 M. D. Uhen. 1999. New species of protocetid archaeocete whale, Eocetus wardii (Mammalia: cetacea) from the middle Eocene of North Carolina. Journal of Paleontology 73(3):512-528 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]