Martin Marietta Quarry [Castle Hayne Limestone]: Bartonian, North Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Spatangidae
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Maretia subrostrata
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Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Prenasteridae
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Carolinaster varnami n. gen., n. sp.
Osborn et al. 2016
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Osborn et al. 2016 | |||||||||
Echinoidea
- Spatangoida
- Schizasteridae
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Linthia harmatuki
Kier 1980
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Linthia hanoverensis
Kellum 1926
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Linthia wilmingtonensis
Clark and Twitchell 1915
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Agassizia wilmingtonensis
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Agassizia wilmingtonensis wilmingtonensis | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Cassidulidae
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Rhyncholampas carolinensis
(Clark and Twitchell 1915)
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Echinoidea
- Cassiduloida
- Neolampadidae
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Eurhodia ideali
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Eurhodia rugosa ideali, new subspecies | ||||||||||
Eurhodia depressa
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Eurhodia rugosa depressa, new subspecies | ||||||||||
Echinoidea
- Clypeasteroida
- Protoscutellidae
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Periarchus lyelli
(Conrad 1834)
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Protoscutella plana
(Conrad 1865)
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Echinoidea
- Echinolampadoida
- Echinolampadidae
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Echinolampas appendiculata
(Emmons 1858)
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Remingtonocetidae
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? Remingtonocetidae indet.
Kumar and Sahni 1986
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Uhen and Peredo 2021 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Protosirenidae
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Protosiren sp.
Abel 1904
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | New Hanover |
Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 77.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 34.2° North, 68.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Bartonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Cretaceous | ||
Key time interval: | Bartonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 41.30000 - 38.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Castle Hayne |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | pebbly,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal wackestone |
Secondary lithology: | grainstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: three facies in ascending stratigraphic order: phosphate pebble biomicrudite, bryozoan biosparrudite, bryozoan biomicrudite | |
Environment: | deep subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils |
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Superior Stone Quarry | ||
Database number: | 5459 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, M. Uhen | Enterer: | K. Layou, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 1999-10-04 12:16:17 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 16:42:10 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-10-04 12:16:17 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
319. | P. M. Kier. 1980. The Echinoids of the Middle Eocene Warley Hill Formation, Santee Limestone, and Castle Hayne Limestone of North and South Carolina. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 39:1-102 [A. Miller/K. Layou] |
Secondary references:
12993 | D. P. Domning, G. S. Morgan, and C. E. Ray. 1982. North American Eocene sea cows (Mammalia: Sirenia). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 52:1-69 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd] | |
24743 | R. Martinez. 2007. Chilean teenagers find trove of whale fossils. Reuters [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
70263 | A. S. Osborn, R. Mooi, and C. N. Cimpaglio. 2016. Additions to the Eocene echinoid fauna of the southeastern United States, including a new genus and species of prenasterid heart urchin. Southeastern Geology 52(1):33-59 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
42488 | M. D. Uhen. 2013. A review of North American Basilosauridae. Alabama Museum of Natural History Bulletin 31(2):1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
75422 | M. D. Uhen and C. M. Peredo. 2021. The first possible remingtonocetid stem whale from North America. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |