Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.1° N, 77.9° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 68.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187644: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Tanyoscapha sigmanae n. sp.
Tanyoscapha sigmanae n. sp. Cooper 1983 |