USGS 31860 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Deepwater Point

Where: North Carolina (35.8° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 36.0° N, 49.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 7625: authorized by Matt Kosnik, entered by Matt Kosnik on 18.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Echinoidae indet.
echinoid parts
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Haustator (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira
"Haustator (Sohlitella) trilira" = Turritella trilira Conrad 1860 turret shell
Turritella (Sohlitella) trilira (Conrad)
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
Nuculana sp.
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
Nucula sp.
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Botula carolinensis mussel
Lithophaga carolinensis Conrad
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella mitchelli clam
Crenella mitchelli Stephenson
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Flemingostrea subspatulata oyster
Flemingostrea subspatulata (Forbes) (early form)
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima sp. Bruguière 1797 file clam
Lima sp.
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia olmstedi jingle
Anomia olmstedi Stephenson
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop
Camptonectes sp.
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Trigonarca elongata clam
Trigonarca elongata Stephenson
 Arcida - Arcidae
Striarca sp. Conrad 1862 clam
Striarca sp.
Arca bladensis ark
Arca bladensis (Stephenson)
 Trigoniida - Megatrigonioidae
"cf. Scabrotrigonia ? bartrami" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia)
"cf. Scabrotrigonia ? bartrami" = Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) clam
Scabrotrigonia cf. S. bartrami (Stephenson)?
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
cf. Nymphalucina parva clam
Nymphalucina cf. N. parva (Stephenson)
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caestocorbula crassiplica Gabb 1860 clam
Caesticorbula crassiplica (Gabb)
Corbula ? carolinensis clam
Corbula carolinensis Conrad?
 Cardiida - Mactridae
Cymbophora trigonalis clam
Cymbophora trigonalis Stephenson
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Veniella conradi Morton 1833 clam
Veniella conradi (Morton)
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
Pleuriocardia donohuensis cockle
Trachycardium donohuensis (Stephenson)
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
"Linearia ? metastriata" = Linearis
"Linearia ? metastriata" = Linearis tellin clam
Linearia metastriata Conrad?
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
bryozoa branching
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
bryozoa encrusting
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Hamulus walkerensis
Hamulus walkerensis Stephenson