James King marl pits: Campanian, North Carolina
collected by W. C. Kerr

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines
Taphrosphys sp. Cope 1869
Cope 1870
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae
Hypsibema crassicauda n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1869
1 individual
nomen dubium belonging to Hadrosauridae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Sampson
Coordinates: 35.0° North, 78.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.2° North, 49.1° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Campanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 7
Key time interval:Campanian
Age range of interval:83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Black Creek
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Tayloran, Late Cretaceous
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified argillaceous siltstone
Secondary lithology: unlithified silty claystone
Lithology description: poorly indurated, laminated or thin-bedded clayey silts and silty clays, dark clays, and loose, coarse light gray, well sorted sand, as well as thick lenses of this sand
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Disassociated major elements:some
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:USNM
Collectors:W. C. Kerr
Metadata
Also known as:Six Runs Creek, L&W locality 5
Database number:71141
Authorizer:M. Uhen, M. Carrano Enterer:M. Uhen, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-04-19 14:10:02 Last modified:2023-06-15 09:04:50
Access level:the public Released:2007-04-19 14:10:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

15634.ETE E. D. Cope. 1869. [Remarks on Eschrichtius polyporus, Hypsibema crassicauda, Hadrosaurus tripos, and Polydectes biturgidus]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21:191-192 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

23842 D. Baird and J. R. Horner. 1979. Cretaceous dinosaurs of North Carolina. Brimleyana 2:1-28 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
35435 E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part II. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:105-235 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Uhen]
15642ETE E. D. Cope. 1871. Observations on the distribution of certain extinct Vertebrata in North Carolina. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12:210-216 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
15582 E. D. Cope. 1875. Appendix B. Synposis of the Vertebrata whose remains have been preserved in the formations of North Carolina. In W. C. Kerr, Report of the Geological Survey of North Carolina. Josiah Turner, Raleigh 1:29-52 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano]
12319ETE R. S. Lull and N. E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 40:1-242 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
85047 D. B. Weishampel and L. Young. 1996. Dinosaurs of the East Coast xiii-275 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]