Neill's Eddy Landing, Cape Fear River (Pliocene of the United States)
Where: Columbus County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.3° W)
When: Waccamaw Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• one specimen (P. herbstii); one immovable finger (E. limosum);
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: M. J. Rathbun. 1935. Fossil Crustacea of the Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper (2)1-160 [C. Schweitzer/S. Yost]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150652: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Samantha Yost on 12.09.2013, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• one specimen, Cat. No. 166074 (P. herbstii); one immovable finger, Cat. No. 166091 (E. limosum);
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Malacostraca | |
Eurytium limosum Say 1817 crab
Panopeus herbstii Edwards 1834 crab | |
Echinoidea | |
Encope michelini Agassiz 1841 sand dollar |