ammonites
James King marl pits (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Six Runs Creek, L&W locality 5

Where: Sampson County, North Carolina (35.0° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.4° N, 49.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Creek Formation, Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Tayloran, Late Cretaceous

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, argillaceous siltstone and unlithified, silty claystone

• 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

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. C. Kerr; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1870. Synopsis of the extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14(1):1-252 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 71141: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 19.04.2007, edited by Matt Carrano

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