{{Short description|Geological group in North Carolina}} {{Infobox rockunit | name = Black Creek Group | image = | caption = | type = [[Group (stratigraphy)|Group]] | age = Early-Mid [[Campanian]], {{fossil range|83.5|75}} | period = Campanian | prilithology = | otherlithology = | namedfor = | namedby = | region = [[North Carolina]], [[South Carolina]] | country = [[United States]] | coordinates ={{coord|34.6|N|78.5|W|display=inline}} | unitof = | subunits = [[Tar Heel/Coachman Formation]], [[Bladen Formation]], [[Donoho Creek Formation]] | underlies =[[Peedee Formation]] | overlies =[[Middendorf Formation]] | thickness = | extent = | area = | map = | map_caption = |paleocoordinates={{coord|35.0|N|50.2|W|display=inline}}}}
The '''Black Creek Group''' is a [[Late Cretaceous]] (early to middle [[Campanian]])-aged [[Group (geology)|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 [[Dinosaur|dinosaurs]] and [[Marine reptile|marine reptiles]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Schwimmer |first=David R. |last2=Sanders |first2=Albert E. |last3=Erickson |first3=Bruce R. |last4=Weems |first4=Robert E. |date=2015 |title=A Late Cretaceous Dinosaur and Reptile Assemblage from South Carolina, Usa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24398224 |journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |volume=105 |issue=2 |pages=i–157 |issn=0065-9746}}</ref>
It consists of the following geologic formations:<ref name=":0" />
* [[Tar Heel/Coachman Formation]] (oldest) * [[Bladen Formation]] * [[Donoho Creek Formation]] (youngest)
==Paleofauna== * cf. ''[[Deinosuchus|Deinosuchus rugosus]]'' * cf. ''[[Coelosaurus antiquus]]'' * cf. ''[[Dryptosaurus|Dryptosaurus sp.]]'' * cf. ''[[Lophorhothon|Lophorhoton atopus]]'' * ''[[Hypsibema|Hypsibema crassicauda]]'' - "Caudal vertebrae, fragmentary humerus, fragmentary tibia, metatarsal II."<ref name="table-20-1-442">"Table 20.1," in Weishampel, et al. (2004). Page 442.</ref> * [[Leptoceratopsidae]] indet.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Longrich | first1 = Nicholas R. | year = 2016 | title = A ceratopsian dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of eastern North America, and implications for dinosaur biogeography | journal = Cretaceous Research | volume = 57 | pages = 199–207 | doi = 10.1016/j.cretres.2015.08.004 }}</ref> * [[Dromaeosauridae]] indet.
==See also== {{Portal|Earth sciences|Paleontology|Dinosaurs|United States}} * [[List of dinosaur-bearing rock formations]] * [[List of stratigraphic units with few dinosaur genera]] * [[List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in North Carolina]]
==References== {{reflist}} * Weishampel, David B.; Dodson, Peter; and Osmólska, Halszka (eds.): The Dinosauria, 2nd, Berkeley: University of California Press. 861 pp. {{ISBN|0-520-24209-2}}. * {{cite web|title= Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database|author= ((Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database))|url= https://www.fossilworks.org/|access-date= 17 December 2021|archive-date= 25 March 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220325060448/http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=home|url-status= dead}} [[Category:Upper Cretaceous Series of North America]] [[Category:Geologic groups of North Carolina]] [[Category:Campanian Stage]] [[Category:Cretaceous geology of North Carolina]]
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