Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.9° N, 78.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 34.5° N, 77.2° W (Wright 2013)
• 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
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 bittersweet clam | |
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus, Chlamys sp.
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin |