Mazyck Plantation: Priabonian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Carditidae
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Cardita planicosta
(Lamarck 1801)
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recombined as Venericor planicosta | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Dorudon serratus n. gen., n. sp.
Gibbes 1845
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Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Sirenia
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Sirenia indet.
Illiger 1811
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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% 34740 | R. 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] |