Black Rock Landing, Cape Fear River [PeeDee]: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, North Carolina
collected by Stephenson
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Gyrodes sp.
Conrad 1860
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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? Anchura sp.
Conrad 1860
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= Anchura sp.
Conrad 1860
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Carter et al. 1988 | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
- Belemnitellidae
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Belemnitella americana
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Arcticidae
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Veniella conradi
Morton 1833
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Carter et al. 1988 | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Cardium spillmani
Conrad 1858
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Crassatellites sp.
Krueger 1823
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| synonym of Crassatella | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Anomiidae
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Anomia argentaria
Morton 1833
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Gryphaeidae
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Gryphaea vesicularis
(Lamarck 1806)
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| recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis | ||||||||||
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Exogyra sp.
Say 1820
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| "costata var. cancellata" | ||||||||||
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= Exogyra cancellata
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Carter et al. 1988 | |||||||||
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Exogyra costata
(Say 1820)
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| original and current combination Exogyra (Exogyra) costata | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea sp.
Lamarck 1801
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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Chondrichthyes
- Lamniformes
- Anacoracidae
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Squalicorax pristodontus
(Agassiz 1835)
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Carter et al. 1988 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Rostellites sp.
Conrad 1855
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Carolina | County: | Bladen |
| Coordinates: | 34.4° North, 78.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.7° North, 55.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: both "zones" of formation exposed, but only lower is fossiliferous | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | micaceous,black,blue argillaceous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "dark blue-black to black, micaceous, clayey, fossiliferous sand" | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USGS |
| Collectors: | Stephenson |
Metadata
| Also known as: | milepost 37, USGS 3449, USGS 5371 | ||
| Database number: | 83302 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-15 14:07:59 | Last modified: | 2017-12-12 09:56:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-15 14:07:59 |
| 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:
| 27972 | ETE | J. G. Carter, P. E. Gallagher, R. E. Valone, T. J. Rossbach, P. G. Gensel, W. H. Wheeler, and D. Whitman. 1988. Fossil collecting in North Carolina. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, Division of Land Resources, Geological Survey Section Bulletin 89:1-89 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |