Where: North Carolina (34.4° N, 77.9° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.2° N, 43.9° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Rocky Point Member (Peedee Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: mechanical,
Primary reference: D. B. Blake and K. Sturgeon. 1995. Aldebarania arenitea, a new genus and species of Astropectinidae (Asteroidea; Echinodermata) from the Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) Peedee formation of North Carolina. Journal of Paleontology 69(2):376-380 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59866: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Hardouinia moretonis" = Harduinia, Hardouinia kellumi
"Hardouinia moretonis" = Harduinia sea urchin
Hardouinia kellumi Stephenson 1927 sea urchin | |
Asteroidea | |
Aldebarania arenitea n. gen. n. sp.
Aldebarania arenitea n. gen. n. sp. Blake and Sturgeon 1995 sea star | |
Bivalvia | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster |