The Black Creek Group is a Late Cretaceous (early to middle Campanian)-aged geologic group in the southeastern United States, where it is known from the coastal plain of North Carolina and South Carolina. Deposited in brackish or nearshore marine conditions, it preserves fossils, including a diversity of dinosaurs and marine reptiles.[1]
| Black Creek Group | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Early-Mid Campanian, | |
| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Tar Heel/Coachman Formation, Bladen Formation, Donoho Creek Formation |
| Underlies | Peedee Formation |
| Overlies | Middendorf Formation |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | 34°36′N 78°30′W / 34.6°N 78.5°W |
| Approximate paleocoordinates | 35°00′N 50°12′W / 35.0°N 50.2°W |
| Region |  North Carolina  South Carolina |
| Country |  United States |
It consists of the following geologic formations:[1]
- Tar Heel/Coachman Formation (oldest)
- Bladen Formation
- Donoho Creek Formation (youngest)
Paleofauna
edit- cf. Deinosuchus rugosus
- cf. Coelosaurus antiquus
- cf. Dryptosaurus sp.
- cf. Lophorhoton atopus
- Hypsibema crassicauda - "Caudal vertebrae, fragmentary humerus, fragmentary tibia, metatarsal II."[2]
- Leptoceratopsidae indet.[3]
- Dromaeosauridae indet.
See also
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References
edit- ^ a b Schwimmer, David R.; Sanders, Albert E.; Erickson, Bruce R.; Weems, Robert E. (2015). "A Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Reptile Assemblage from South Carolina, Usa". Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 105 (2): i–157. ISSN 0065-9746.
- ^ "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
- ^ Longrich, Nicholas R. (2016). "A ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of eastern North America, and implications for dinosaur biogeography". Cretaceous Research. 57: 199–207. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.004.
- Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. ISBN 0-520-24209-2.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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