Also known as Black River, milepost 54.5
Where: Sampson County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 49.3° 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; lithified, gray, calcareous limestone
Size class: 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 190553: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark | |
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus
"Corax falcatus" = Squalicorax falcatus Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam | |
Cyprimeria depressa venus clam | |
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis
"Linearia metastriata" = Linearis tellin clam | |
"Cardium eufaulense" = Trachycardium eufaulensis, Cardium longstreeti
"Cardium eufaulense" = Trachycardium eufaulensis Conrad 1860 cockle
Cardium longstreeti cockle | |
"? Modiola sp." = Modiolus
"? Modiola sp." = Modiolus Lamarck 1801 mussel | |
"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca
"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca clam | |
Nemodon eufalensis clam | |
Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758 ark | |
Anomia lintea jingle
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell | |
Polychaeta | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |