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
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 | |
? Volutoderma sp. Gabb 1877 volute | |
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail
Lunatia obliquata moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus
"Ostrea larva" = Agerostrea ungulatus Böhm 1891 oyster | |
Ostrea subspatulata oyster | |
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster | |
Anomia lintea jingle
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Etea carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam | |
Cardium longstreeti cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Polychaeta | |
Serpula sp. Linnaeus 1758 | |
Gnathostomata | |
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Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
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Chondrichthyes | |
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark |