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 | |
Calappilia sitzi n. sp.
Calappilia sitzi n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996 box crab | |
"Paguristes" wheeleri n. sp.
"Paguristes" wheeleri n. sp. Blow and Manning 1996 hermit crab |