Donohue Creek Landing, Cape Fear River (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as milepost 50.5, USGS 4158, USGS 5369, USGS 5369a

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.5° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 55.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; black, argillaceous sandstone

• "Dark to black marine sand, with some fine irregular laminae of clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Stephenson; reposited in the ANSP, FMNH

Collection methods: quarrying,

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151059: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Allison Bowman on 19.09.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
? Volutoderma sp. Gabb 1877 volute
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail
Lunatia obliquata moon snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus Böhm 1891 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"large"
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Arcidae
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Etea carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
vertebra
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian
tooth
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark