Also known as milepost 62.5, Black River
Where: Sampson County, North Carolina (34.7° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 49.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Snow Hill Formation (Black Creek Group), Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• orig. Snow Hill Member, now either Bladen or Tar Heel Fm.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1912. The Cretaceous formations. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey 3:73-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 123474: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.01.2012, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Micrabacia cribraria" = Stephanophyllia cribraria
"Micrabacia cribraria" = Stephanophyllia cribraria Stephenson 1916 stony coral | |
Actinopteri | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell | |
? Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Leda sp." = Nuculana
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"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis, "Crassatellites pteropsis" = Bathytormus pteropsis
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam
"Crassatellites pteropsis" = Bathytormus pteropsis Conrad 1860 clam | |
Cymella bella clam | |
Corbula carolinensis clam | |
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam | |
Legumen planulatum venus clam
? Aphrodina sp. Conrad 1869 venus clam | |
Isocardia sp. Lamarck 1799 clam | |
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? Solyma sp., "Linearia metastriata" = Linearis
? Solyma sp. Conrad 1870 tellin clam
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis tellin clam | |
Nemodon eufalensis clam | |
"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca, "Trigonoarca sp." = Trigonarca
"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca clam | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Ostrea plumosa Morton 1833 oyster
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster | |
"Ostrea tecticosta" = Cubitostrea tecticosta
"Ostrea tecticosta" = Cubitostrea tecticosta Gabb 1860 oyster | |
Anomia lintea jingle | |
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Polychaeta | |