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);
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Panopeidae
Eurytium limosum Say 1817 crab
Panopeus herbstii Edwards 1834 crab
Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Mellitidae
Encope michelini Agassiz 1841 sand dollar