Neuse River Cut-Off (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Wayne County, North Carolina (35.3° N, 78.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 48.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Black Creek Formation, Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: E. M. Friis, P. R. Crane, and K. R. Pedersen. 1988. Reproductive structures of Cretaceous Platanaceae. Biologiske Skrifter Det Kongelige Danske Videnskskabernes Selskab 31:1-55 [H. Wang/H. Wang/H. Wang]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28410: authorized by Hongshan Wang, entered by Hongshan Wang on 12.02.2003, edited by Monica Arakaki and Jason Cassara

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Angiospermae
 Proteales - Platanaceae
Platananthus hueberi n. sp. Friis et al. 1988
Platanocarpus carolinensis n. sp. Friis et al. 1988
 Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
 Coniferales -
Androvettia statenensis2 Hollick and Jeffrey 1909
Pinopsida
 Pinales - Taxaceae
Moriconia cyclotoxon2 Debey and Ettingshausen 1859 yew