Kingstree, Black River (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Locality 2 of Erickson 1998

Where: Williamsburg County, South Carolina (33.7° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 59.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Rhems Formation (Black Mingo Group), Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)

• Some elements are from younger Neogene strata that have been reworked

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; fine-grained lithology not reported

• finer, clastic shelf sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. Smith, D. Holt and V. McCollum in 1971 and 1981

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: B. R. Erickson. 1998. Crocodilians of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina Coastal Plain. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 88(4):196-214 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 115148: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.08.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. Huxley 1875 crocodilian
Capitular portion of a 1st or 2nd thoracic rib ChM PV4262
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
Scute (Bruce Lampright collection) - reworked
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
Two partly complete left dentaries (SMM P84. 12.24 and Aura Baker collection [cast - SMMP 85.16.1c]) - reworked
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Bottosaurus sp. Agassiz 1849 crocodilian
Teeth and scute (ChM PV4260)
 Crocodylia - Gavialidae
Thoracosaurus sp. Leidy 1852 crocodilian
Teeth and scute (ChM PV4259)