Black Creek Group
The Black Creek Group is a geologic group in North Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Late Cretaceous period.
| Black Creek Group Stratigraphic range: Cretaceous | |
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| Type | Group |
| Sub-units | Tar Heel Formation, Bladen Formation, Donoho Creek Formation |
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Paleofauna
- cf. Deinosuchus rugosus
- cf. Coelosaurus antiquus
- cf. Dryptosaurus sp.
- cf. Lophorhoton atopus
- Hypsibema crassicauda - "Caudal vertebrae, fragmentary humerus, fragmentary tibia, metatarsal II."[1]
- Leptoceratopsidae indet.[2]
- Dromaeosauridae indet.
See also
- List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations
- List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in North Carolina
References
- "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". Archived from the original on 31 July 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
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