Also known as milepost 37, USGS 3449, USGS 5371

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.4° N, 78.3° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 55.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• both "zones" of formation exposed, but only lower is fossiliferous

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; micaceous, black, blue, argillaceous sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Stephenson; reposited in the USGS

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 83302: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.08.2008

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