Black Rock Landing, Cape Fear River [PeeDee] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as milepost 37, USGS 3449, USGS 5371

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 55.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• both "zones" of formation exposed, but only lower is fossiliferous

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; micaceous, black, blue, argillaceous sandstone

• "dark blue-black to black, micaceous, clayey, fossiliferous sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Stephenson; reposited in the USGS

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 83302: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.08.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Anchura sp. Conrad 1860 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Gyrodes sp. Conrad 1860 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Gryphaea vesicularis" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Lamarck 1806 oyster
Exogyra cancellata oyster
"costata var. cancellata"
"Exogyra costata" = Exogyra (Exogyra) costata Say 1820 oyster
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium spillmani Conrad 1858 cockle
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Anacoracidae
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Reptilia
  -
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile
teeth
 Life -
Rostellites sp. Conrad 1855