Black Creek Group

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Black Creek Group
Stratigraphic range: Early-Mid Campanian, 83.5–75  Ma
Type Group
Sub-units Tar Heel/Coachman Formation, Bladen Formation, Donoho Creek Formation
Underlies Peedee Formation
Overlies Middendorf Formation
Location
Coordinates 34°36′N78°30′W / 34.6°N 78.5°W / 34.6; -78.5
Approximate paleocoordinates 35°00′N50°12′W / 35.0°N 50.2°W / 35.0; -50.2
Region North Carolina, South Carolina
Country United States

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]

Contents

It consists of the following geologic formations: [1]

Paleofauna

See also

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. ↑ "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
  3. ↑ 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.


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