Also known as Black River, milepost 66
Where: Sampson County, North Carolina (34.7° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 49.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Black Creek Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green, calcareous sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Stephenson
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
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 190550: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyclothyris sp. M'Coy 1844 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula aff. percrassa nut clam | |
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
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"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca clam | |
Cucullaea antrosa clam | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam | |
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"Cardium eufaulense" = Trachycardium eufaulensis, Cardium longstreeti, Cardium sp., Cardium spillmani
"Cardium eufaulense" = Trachycardium eufaulensis Conrad 1860 cockle
Cardium longstreeti cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium spillmani Conrad 1858 cockle | |
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis tellin clam | |
Corbula carolinensis clam | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Lunatia sp. Gray 1847 moon snail | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Reptilia | |
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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 |