USGS 26874, Lanier Pit (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Pender County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 68.5° 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 191862: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Annuntidiogenidae
"Paguristes" wheeleri n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Calappidae
Calappilia sitzi n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996 box crab