Robinson's Landing, Cape Fear River: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, North Carolina
collected by Stephenson

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra costata (Say 1820)
original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
Ostrea larva Lamarck 1819
synonym of Agerostrea ungulatus
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea plumosa Morton 1833
Ostrea subspatulata
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia lintea
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea antrosa
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
? Arca sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia eufalensis
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
Lamna texana Roemer 1852
recombined as Scapanorhynchus texanus
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Otodontidae
Otodus appendiculatus (Agassiz 1835)
recombined as Cretalamna appendiculata
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:70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Peedee
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
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 49.5, USGS 3356, USGS 5419
Database number:190580
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-12-12 09:46:50 Last modified:2021-07-12 15:09:27
Access level:the public Released:2017-12-12 09:46:50
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]