Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.9° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.0° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bear Bluff Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• From unit 1D, Pliocene age Bear Bluff Fm. Unit 1D is a 1 ft thick sandstone, underlying unit 2 of the Bear Bluff Fm and the basal unit (3) of the 5 ft thick Waccamaw Fm, and overlies units 1A-C of the Waccamaw Fm gradationally. Basinal/regional section name: Waccamaw River

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal, brown sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Unknown repository

Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1971. Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas. Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 12th Annual Field Conference [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 60918: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006

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