Mazyck Plantation: Priabonian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Cardita planicosta (Lamarck 1801)
recombined as Venericor planicosta
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Dorudon serratus n. gen., n. sp. Gibbes 1845
Mammalia - Sirenia - Sirenia
Sirenia indet. Illiger 1811
Domning et al. 1982
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Berkeley
Coordinates: 33.5° North, 80.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.4° North, 72.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Late/Upper Eocene
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Moncks Corner Greensand
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: the green sand in which the D. serratus remains were found (here provisionally assigned the informal name Moncks Corner Greensand) may represent a bed within or immediately above the Pregnall Member, but which was later eroded by the Harleyville (or Parkers Ferry) seas (the base of the Harleyville is NP21 in age and the Parkers Ferry Formation, which also rests immediately above the Tupelo Bay Formation in some areas, is of NP19/20 age; Fig. 5). At present, however, that inference is merely speculation (Albright et al., 2019)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore shelf
Geology comments: The Harleyville Formation exhibits an outer shelf depositional environment during the late Oligocene.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Disassociated major elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:13405
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-03-14 11:56:26 Last modified:2019-12-09 14:11:24
Access level:the public Released:2002-03-14 11:56:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6032.5% 34740R. W. Gibbes. 1845. Description of the teeth of a new fossil animal found in the Green Sand of South Carolina. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2(9):254-256 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

71195 L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
12993 D. P. Domning, G. S. Morgan, and C. E. Ray. 1982. North American Eocene sea cows (Mammalia: Sirenia). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 52:1-69 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/P. Holroyd]
14111 J. H. Geisler, A. E. Sanders, and Z. Luo. 2005. A new protocetid whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the late middle Eocene of South Carolina. American Museum Novitates 3480:1-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
10457 M. D. Uhen. 2004. Form, Function, and Anatomy of Dorudon atrox (Mammalia, Cetacea): An Archaeocete from the Middle to Late Eocene of Egypt. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 34:1-222 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]