| Tar Heel/Coachman Formation | |
| Type: | Formation |
| Age: | Campanian ~ |
| Unitof: | Black Creek Group |
| Underlies: | Bladen Formation |
The Tar Heel Formation is a geologic formation in North Carolina. It preserves fossils, including amber dating back to the Cretaceous period. A locality known as Phoebus Landing, has been dated to 78.5-77.1 Ma.[1]
An indeterminate hadrosauroid is known from Stokes Quarry.[3]
| Ornithopods of the Tar Heel/Coachman Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Notes | Images | ||
| Hadrosaurus | H. foulkii | Hadrosaurus can be found throughout Late Cretaceous Appalachia. | ||||
| "Hadrosaurus" | "H." minor | Phoebus Landing, North Carolina | A small or juvenile hadrosaur. | |||
| Hypsibema | H.crassicauda | Hypsibema was first discovered in North Carolina from Sampson County, 1869, and described by Edward Drinker Cope. It was measured to be 12-17 meters, making it one of the largest hadrosaurids. | ||||
| Lophorhothon | L. sp. | Phoebus Landing, North Carolina | Lophorhothon was discovered in the Mooreville Chalk Formation, Alabama. | |||
Indeterminate theropods, ornithomimosaurs, and maniraptorans are known from Stokes Quarry.
| Theropods of the Tar Heel/Coachman Formation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genus | Species | Location | Notes | Images | ||
| Appalachiosaurus | A. montgomeriensis | Stokes Quarry, South Carolina | A large eutyrannosaur. | |||
| cf. Coelosaurus[5] | Indeterminate | Phoebus Landing, North Carolina | An intermediate Ornithomimosaur | |||
| Dromaeosaurine[6] | Indeterminate | Sampson County, North Carolina | A large dromaeosaurid, larger than Saurornitholestes but smaller than Dakotaraptor. | |||
| Dryptosauridae | Indeterminate | Phoebus Landing, North Carolina | A large eutyrannosaur part of an early lineage related to Dryptosaurus. | |||
| Saurornitholestes[7] | S. langstoni |
| The first evidence of dromaeosaurids in Appalachia was uncovered through S. langstoni specimens found at Stokes Quarry and Burches Ferry. | |||