Also known as Black River, milepost 63.5
Where: Sampson County, North Carolina (34.7° N, 78.2° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 36.4° N, 41.0° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Black Creek Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green, calcareous sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Stephenson
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: L. W. Stephenson. 1912. The Cretaceous formations. North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey 3:73-171 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 190552: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 11.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Gastropoda | |
Turritella vertebroides Morton 1834 turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula aff. percrassa Conrad 1858 nut clam | |
Glycymeris subaustralis, "Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca
"Trigonoarca triquetra" = Trigonarca clam | |
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea
"Ostrea cretacea" = Flemingostrea cretacea Morton 1834 oyster | |
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Anomia lintea jingle
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle | |
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis, "Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam | |
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle | |
Corbula carolinensis clam | |
Cymella bella clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark |