USGS 5354/USGS 4136, Whiteley Creek Landing (Cretaceous of the United States)

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

• "dark greenish-gray, rather coarse, glauconitic sand"

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

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
"Micrabacia cribraria n. sp." = Stephanophyllia cribraria Stephenson 1916 stony coral
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Perna sp. Retzius 1788 mussel
"n. sp."
 Mytilida - Crenellidae
Crenella sp. Brown 1827 clam
"n. sp."
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea plumosa Morton 1833 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
"n. sp."
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Anomia argentaria Morton 1833 jingle
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop
"n. sp."
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon brevifrons Conrad 1875 clam
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella, "Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis
"Crassatellites sp." = Crassatella Lamarck 1799 clam
"probably new species"
"Crassatellites carolinensis" = Crassatella carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
? Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
 Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
? Gastrochaena sp. Spengler 1783 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
"Cardium eufaulense" = Trachycardium eufaulensis Conrad 1860 cockle
Cardium dumosum Conrad 1870 cockle
Cardium sp. Linnaeus 1758 cockle
Cardium spillmani Conrad 1858 cockle
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
Linearia (Liothyris) carolinensis Conrad 1875 tellin clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Etea carolinensis Conrad 1875 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Aphrodina regia venus clam
Aphrodina sp. Conrad 1869 venus clam
 Cardiida - Glossidae
Isocardia sp. Lamarck 1799 clam
"n. sp."
 Cardiida - Ungulinidae
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
"n. sp."
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Gnathostomata
  -
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish
vertebra
Chondrichthyes
 Lamniformes - Mitsukurinidae
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus
"Lamna texana" = Scapanorhynchus texanus Roemer 1852 goblin shark
 Lamniformes - Otodontidae
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata
"Otodus appendiculatus" = Cretalamna appendiculata Agassiz 1835 mackerel shark