ammonites
Martin Marietta Quarry, North Carolina (Eocene of the United States)

Where: New Hanover County, North Carolina (34.2° N, 78.1° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 69.2° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Castle Hayne Formation, Bartonian (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

• Castle Hayne lies unconformably over the PeeDee Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal limestone

• a phosphate pebble biomicrudite facies overlain by a bryozoan biosparrudite facies.

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

• Decapods only, molts

Primary reference: R. M. Feldmann, K. L. Bice, C. S. Hopkins, E. W. Salva, and K. Pickford. 1998. Decapod Crustaceans from the Eocene Castle Hayne Formation, North Carolina: Paleoceanographic Implications. Journal of Paleontology 72(Supplement):1-28 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7297: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 23.05.2000, edited by Mark Uhen and Carrie Schweitzer