Also known as milepost 60, Neuse River

Where: Lenoir County, North Carolina (35.2° N, 77.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 48.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• upper part of Exogyra ponderosa zone, orig. Snow Hill Member of Black Creek Fm. PJW: Stephenson's Exogyra ponderosa zone is very different from modern definitions!

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, coarse-grained, glauconitic, gray, green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Stephenson; reposited in the USGS

Collection methods: surface (float), 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 87677: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.03.2009, edited by Matthew Carrano

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