USGS 26876, Billy B. Fussel Company quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 68.8° 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 191864: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2018

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Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Raninidae
"Cyrtorhina fusseli" = Antonioranina fusseli
"Cyrtorhina fusseli" = Antonioranina fusseli Blow and Manning 1996 crab