Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Goose Creek Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Local section name: Cross. Basinal/regional section name: Berkeley.
•The Goose Creek Limestone is divisible into lower and upper biostratigraphic units, coincident with lith division, seperated by an unconformity. The Raysor Marl unconformably overlies the lower Goose Creek Limestone. The lower Goose Creek Limestone is of late middle Pliocene (~3.8-3.9 Ma). From Encope horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, phosphatic, gray, white, sandy, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, midden
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• New USCS collection. Material reposited in Converse College, Charleston Museum, USNM and USCS.
Primary reference: M.R. Campbell and L.D. Campbell. 1995. Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:53-100 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60940: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Echinoidea | |
Echinocardium orthonotum Conrad 1843 heart urchin | |
Spatangus glenni Cooke 1959 heart urchin | |
Mellita carolinana sand dollar
Encope macrophora Ravenel 1842 sand dollar | |
Psammechinus philanthropus Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Arbacia improcera Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Mammalia | |
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca lugubris Conrad 1834 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Ctenostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Cheilostomata indet. Busk 1859 | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii
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"Aurinia mutabilis" = Volutifusus mutabilis
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Conus marylandicus, "Conus presozoni" = Conus delessertii, "Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell internal and external molds
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"Busycon pyrum" = Busycotypus spiratus Lamarck 1816 whelk Subspecies: B. pyrum excavatum; latex cast
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Scaphopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
"Lucinisca cribraria" = Lucinisca cribrarius, "Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica, "Pseudomiltha anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta, Radiolucina tuomeyi, Divalinga quadrisulcata, "Ctena speciosa" = Ctena (Ctena) speciosa
"Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica Linnaeus 1758 clam internal mold [entered as Linga pennsylvanica]
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Dosinia acetabulum, Chione erosa, Mercenaria corrugata, "Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Macrocallista albaria
Mercenaria corrugata quahog Includes subspecies: M. corrugata tridacnoides; internal and external molds
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam latex cast
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Mulinia congesta, "Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
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Thracia magna, "Cyathodonta dalli" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
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Glycymeris americana, "Glycymeris subovata" = Costaglycymeris subovata
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam Subspecies: G. americana americana and G. americana quinquerugata; internal and extenal molds
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"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa
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"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
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Spondylus sp., Pecten sp., Pecten hemicyclicus, Carolinapecten eboreus, Nodipecten collierensis, Chlamys decemnarius, "Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius, Chesapecten madisonius, Leptopecten leonensis, Amusium mortoni, Argopecten comparilis
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
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Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Anthozoa | |
Paracyathus vaughani Gane 1895 stony coral | |
Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral | |
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |