Lanier Pit at Maple Hill (NCSM collection) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 69.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Comfort Member (Castle Hayne Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Sequence 4 (Priabonian) of Harris and Zullo (1991), which is characterized by the presence of the echinoid Periarchus lyelli; the pectinids Chlamys deshayesii dennisoni, C. cookei and C. membranosa; the barnacle Arcoscalpellum jacksonense; and the oyster Pycnodonte trigonalis (see Harris and Zullo, 1991).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal wackestone

• The biomicrudite facies (Baum, 1980) represent the lower energy and deeper waters of the Castle Hayne embayment during the Eocene transgression (see Feldmann et al., 1998). Quiet conditions in the deepest waters (50-100 m) attained by the Eocene transgression in this area.
• Loose bryozoan hash, biomicrudite

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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191735: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2018

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Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Pilumnidae
Pilummede penderensis
Pilummede penderensis Ossó and Clements 2021 crab