Donohue Creek Landing, Cape Fear River: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, North Carolina
collected by Stephenson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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1 specimen | |||||||||
vertebra | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
spelled with current rank as Crocodylia | ||||||||||
tooth | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Otodus appendiculatus
(Agassiz 1835)
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recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Corax falcatus
Agassiz 1843
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recombined as Squalicorax falcatus | ||||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Lamna texana
Roemer 1852
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recombined as Scapanorhynchus texanus | ||||||||||
Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Etea carolinensis
Conrad 1875
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium longstreeti
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Glycymerididae
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Trigonarca cliffwoodensis
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Arca sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia lintea
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Anomia argentaria
Morton 1833
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea subspatulata
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Ostrea sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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"large" | ||||||||||
Ostrea larva
Lamarck 1819
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synonym of Agerostrea ungulatus | ||||||||||
Exogyra costata
(Say 1820)
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original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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? Volutoderma sp.
Gabb 1877
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Gastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Gyrodes sp.
Conrad 1860
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Lunatia obliquata
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Serpula sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Bladen |
Coordinates: | 34.5° North, 78.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.8° North, 55.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Altitude: | 33 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 72.10000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Peedee |
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | planar lamination,black argillaceous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "Dark to black marine sand, with some fine irregular laminae of clay" | |
Environment: | coastal indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Feeding/predation traces: | fractures |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | ichnofossils |
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Museum repositories: | ANSP,FMNH |
Collectors: | Stephenson |
Metadata
Also known as: | milepost 50.5, USGS 4158, USGS 5369, USGS 5369a | ||
Database number: | 151059 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen, M. Carrano | Enterer: | A. Bowman, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2013-09-19 14:58:04 | Last modified: | 2021-07-12 15:09:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-09-19 14:58:04 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
64076. | L. W. Stephenson. 1912. The Cretaceous formations. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey 3:73-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
41941 | E. S. Gaffney, G. E. Hooks III, and V. P. Schneider. 2009. New material of North American side-necked turtles (Pleurodira: Bothremydidae). American Museum Novitates 3655:1-26 [R. Benson/R. Benson] |