Mazyck Plantation (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.5° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 72.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Moncks Corner Greensand Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• 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)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; green sandstone

• The Harleyville Formation exhibits an outer shelf depositional environment during the late Oligocene.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13405: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.03.2002

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Cardita planicosta" = Venericor planicosta
"Cardita planicosta" = Venericor planicosta Lamarck 1801 clam
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Dorudon serratus n. gen. n. sp.
Dorudon serratus n. gen. n. sp. Gibbes 1845 whale
 Sirenia - Sirenia