James King marl pits: Campanian, North Carolina
collected by W. C. Kerr
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
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] | |
15642 | ETE | 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] | |
12319 | ETE | 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] |