Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 68.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Comfort Member (Castle Hayne Formation), Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• Recovered from loose bryozoan hash at the base of Sequence 3 (Bartonian) of Harris and Zullo (1991), about one meter or so above the basal phosphate pebble biomicrudite, which represents an initial transgressive lag of the sequence. In this locality, specimens were found closely associated to echinoids of the Kier’s Middle Biozone (Kier, 1980).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: NC Museum of Natural Sciences (NCSM), Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 191733: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Pilummede penderensis n. gen. n. sp.
Pilummede penderensis n. gen. n. sp. Ossó and Clements 2021 crab |