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
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Exogyra costata
(Say 1820)
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original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Flemingostreidae
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Ostrea larva
Lamarck 1819
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synonym of Agerostrea ungulatus | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea plumosa
Morton 1833
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Ostrea subspatulata
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Ostrea 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
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea antrosa
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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? Arca sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Trigoniidae
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Trigonia eufalensis
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Mitsukurinidae
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Lamna texana
Roemer 1852
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recombined as Scapanorhynchus texanus | |||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Otodontidae
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Otodus appendiculatus
(Agassiz 1835)
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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] |