Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: North Carolina (35.0° N, 67.9° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° N, 22.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 100.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• Interbedded laminated marls, bioturbated limestones, and sandstone to claystone turbidites of Lower Cretaceous lithologic Unit V at Site 603

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: P. J. Hoedemaeker. 1987. Remains of Early Cretaceous Ammonites and of a Fish from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 603. Deep Sea Drilling Project Initial Reports 93:777-781 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105790: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 25.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
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 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras)
"Hypophylloceras sp." = Phylloceras (Hypophylloceras) Salfeld 1924 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Possibly L. liebigi or L. subsequens; a secpnd specimen possibly L. juilleti or L. vogdti