Where: Duplin County, North Carolina (34.8° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 55.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• Exposed at a depth of approximately 4.5 to 6.1 m
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, glauconitic limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by G.R. Case
• Repository: Princeton University (illustrated specimens); private collection of Gerard Case (additional specimens)
Primary reference: G. R. Case. 1979. Cretaceous selachians from the Peedee Formation (Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina. Brimleyana 2:77-89 [J. Kriwet/W. Glaeser/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 71488: authorized by Juergen Kriwet, entered by Wolfgang Glaeser on 26.04.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischyrhiza mira Leidy 1856 ray | |
Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark | |
"Plicatolamna cf. arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis
"Plicatolamna cf. arcuata" = Archaeolamna kopingensis Davis 1890 mackerel shark | |
Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark | |
Cretolamna biauriculata, "Cretolamna appendiculata" = Cretalamna appendiculata
Cretolamna biauriculata Wanner 1902 mackerel shark | |
Odontaspis sp. Agassiz 1838 sand tiger shark | |
"Cretolamna serrata" = Serratolamna serrata
"Cretolamna serrata" = Serratolamna serrata Agassiz 1838 mackerel shark | |
Hybodus "sp. 1" Agassiz 1834 elasmobranch | |
Rhombodus cf. binkhorsti Dames 1881 stingray |