Black Creek Group

Black Creek Group
Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous
Type Group
Sub-units Tar Heel Formation, Bladen Formation, Donoho Creek Formation
Location
Region  North Carolina
Country  United States

The Black Creek Group is a geologic group in North Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Cretaceous period.

Paleofauna

  • cf. Deinosuchus rugosus
  • cf. Coelosaurus antiquus
  • cf. Dryptosaurus sp.
  • cf. Lophorhothon atopus
  • Hypsibema crassicauda - "Caudal vertebrae, fragmentary humerus, fragmentary tibia, metatarsal II."[1]
  • Leptoceratopsidae indet.[2]
  • Dromaeosauridae indet.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.
  2. ↑ 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". Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.


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