USGS 26870, Martin Marietta Castle Hayne quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 68.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. C. Blow and R. B. Manning. 1996. Preliminary descriptions of 25 new decapod crustaceans from the middle Eocene of the Carolinas, U.S.A. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 29:1-26 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 191858: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
"Cyrtorhina fusseli n. sp." = Antonioranina fusseli, Lophoranina raynorae n. sp.
"Cyrtorhina fusseli n. sp." = Antonioranina fusseli Blow and Manning 1996 crab
Lophoranina raynorae n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996 crab