PRI 2144, Wilmington City rock quarry (Eocene of the United States)

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.2° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 68.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal ramp; lithified limestone

• The Castle Hayne Limestone was deposited in an open, normal salinity environment between 30 m and 100 m in water depth. Comfort Member contains cross-bedded intervals, suggesting some energy, consistent with deep subtidal environment.

Size class: mesofossils

Primary reference: K. V. Palmer and D. C. Brann. 1965. Catalogue of the Paleocene and Eocene mollusca of the southern and eastern United States. Part 1. Pelecypoda, Amphineura, Peteropoda, Scaphopoda and Cephalopoda. Bulletins of American Paleontology 48:1-471 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91110: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Laurie Eccles on 04.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Eutrephoceras berryi, Eutrephoceras carolinense
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella subtilis
Turritella subtilis Kellum 1926 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Turbinellidae
? Vasum wilmingtonense
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
"Pleurotomaria" nixa
Bivalvia
 Poromyida - Verticordiidae
Pecchiolia dalliana