Martin Marieta Quarry, Rocky Point Quarry, Castle Hayne Formation: Bartonian, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Cetacea indet.
Brisson 1762
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Uhen 2013 | 1 specimen | |||||
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Eocetus wardii
Uhen 1999
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Beatty and Geisler 2010 | 8 specimens | |||||
| recombined as Pachycetus wardii | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Pender |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 77.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 34.3° North, 68.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 41.20000 - 37.71000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Castle Hayne | Member: | Comfort | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: age after Beatty & Geisler 2010 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification" "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | passive margin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 75518 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
| Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-10-15 08:52:16 | Last modified: | 2022-07-07 09:51:52 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-10-15 08:52:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25500. | M. D. Uhen. 2001. New material of Eocetus wardii (Mammalia, Cetacea) from the middle Eocene of North Carolina. Southeastern Geology 40(2):135-148 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
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] | |
| 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] |