Also known as Locality 3 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
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 115152: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 29.08.2011, edited by Roger Benson and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"coprolite" indet.2 CMM-V-4524, with an impression of a hatchling of a Taphrosphys sulcatus. Predator unknown
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"Kinosternidae indet." = Kinosternoidea3
"Kinosternidae indet." = Kinosternoidea3 Hay 1892 mud turtle ChM PV3766, left peripheral 4 ; PV3820, proximal fragment of costal2 or 4; PV3782, PV3803, PV3825, costal fragment
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Agomphus pectoralis3 Cope 1870 mud turtle PV4764, peripheral 4; PV4767, distal costal (probably 3 or 5); PV4761, carapace fragment consisting of peripheral 3-4 and distal parts of costals 1-2.
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Bottosaurus sp. Agassiz 1849 crocodilian Teeth (including SMM P84.12.7, P84.18.3, P84.18.5, P84.18.6; one in Bruce Lampright collection [cast - SMM P84.18 C) and scute (SMMP 84.12.12)
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