Also known as milepost 41, USGS 3450, USGS 4157, USGS 5370
Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.5° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 55.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
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 190582: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Exogyra sp., "Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata, "Gryphaea vesicularis" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
"Gryphaea vesicularis" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster | |
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |