County Road 1148 borrow pit (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 55.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Exposed at a depth of approximately 4.5 to 6.1 m

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by G.R. Case

• Repository: Princeton University (illustrated specimens); private collection of Gerard Case (additional specimens)

Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1979. Cretaceous selachians from the Peedee Formation (Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina. Brimleyana 2:77-89 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71488: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 26.04.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Myliobatiformes - Rhombodontidae
Rhombodus cf. binkhorsti Dames 1881 stingray
 Rajiformes - Sclerorhynchidae
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray
 Lamniformes - Odontaspididae
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark
 Lamniformes - Serratolamnidae
"Cretolamna serrata" = Serratolamna serrata
"Cretolamna serrata" = Serratolamna serrata Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Archaeolamnidae
"Plicatolamna cf. arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna cf. arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata, Cretolamna biauriculata
"Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark
ssp. lata
Cretolamna biauriculata Wanner 1902 mackerel shark
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus "sp. 1" Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch