Martin Marietta Quarry [Castle Hayne Limestone]: Bartonian, North Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Maretia subrostrata
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Prenasteridae
Carolinaster varnami n. gen., n. sp. Osborn et al. 2016
Osborn et al. 2016
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Schizasteridae
Linthia harmatuki Kier 1980
Linthia hanoverensis Kellum 1926
Linthia wilmingtonensis Clark and Twitchell 1915
Agassizia wilmingtonensis
Agassizia wilmingtonensis wilmingtonensis
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Cassidulidae
Rhyncholampas carolinensis (Clark and Twitchell 1915)
Echinoidea - Cassiduloida - Neolampadidae
Eurhodia ideali
Eurhodia rugosa ideali, new subspecies
Eurhodia depressa
Eurhodia rugosa depressa, new subspecies
Echinoidea - Clypeasteroida - Protoscutellidae
Periarchus lyelli (Conrad 1834)
Protoscutella plana (Conrad 1865)
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas appendiculata (Emmons 1858)
Mammalia - Cetacea - Remingtonocetidae
? Remingtonocetidae indet. Kumar and Sahni 1986
Uhen and Peredo 2021
Mammalia - Sirenia - Protosirenidae
Protosiren sp. Abel 1904
Domning et al. 1982
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]