Elizabethtown (Cretaceous to of the United States)

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 50.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group), Early/Lower Campanian to Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Reworked from a Miocene bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. Jerry Britt, Jr. in 1983–1984; reposited in the AMNH

Primary reference: E. Emmons. 1858. Palaeontology. Report of the North Carolina Geological Survey (XV)193-212 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 129825: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 28.06.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
"Polyptychodon rugosus n. sp." = Deinosuchus rugosus
"Polyptychodon rugosus n. sp." = Deinosuchus rugosus Emmons 1858 crocodilian
 Testudines - Bothremydidae
Bothremys cooki Leidy 1865 sideneck turtle
AMNH 29444, right otic chamber