USGS 31865 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Robinsons Landing

Where: North Carolina (35.8° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 55.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: CC25-CC26 nannofossil zone, Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Burleigh and Self-Trail (2006) report that the Peedee Fm in North Carolina spans zones CC25a, CC25b, and CC26a.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Reposited in the USGS

• Sohl and Christopher

Primary reference: N. F. Sohl and R. A. Christopher. 1983. The Black Creek-Peedee formational contact (Upper Cretaceous) in the Cape Fear river region of North Carolina. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1285:1-37 [M. Kosnik/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7629: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Hamulus sp.
Hamulus sp.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Naticid boreholes
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia tellinoides jingle
Anomia tellinoides Morton
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle
Anomia argentaria Morton
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Acutostrea plumosa oyster
Ostrea plumosa Morton
Flemingostrea subspatulata oyster
Flemingostrea subspatulata (Forbes) (early form)
 Ostreida - Flemingostreidae
? Ambigostrea tecticosta oyster
Cubitostrea? tecticosta (Gabb)
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra costata spinosa Say 1820 oyster
Exogyra costata spinosa Stephenson