USGS 12262, New Rocky Point Quarry (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.5° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 55.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L.B. Kellum; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1953. American Upper Cretaceous Echinoidea. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 254-A:1-44 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 78134: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 29.01.2008

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cassiduloida -
"Cassidulus emmonsi n. sp." = Hardouinia mortonis emmonsi, "Cassidulus kellumi n. sp." = Hardouinia kellumi
"Cassidulus emmonsi n. sp." = Hardouinia mortonis emmonsi Stephenson 1927 sea urchin
"Cassidulus kellumi n. sp." = Hardouinia kellumi Stephenson 1927 sea urchin