APAC Quarry (lower) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Ashland Paving and Construction

Where: Lee County, South Carolina (34.1° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 57.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, medium, calcareous sandstone

• The lithological unit came to light as several large (1-2m) blocks dumped as spoil. Information supplied by the quarry operators indicates that the blocks came from a depth of approximately 20ft in the now water-filled quarry.
• The lithology is a more or less homogeneous gray calcite-cemented, well-sorted, fine- to medium-grained santstone. The sand grains are predominantly (>90%) quartz, with small amounts of opaque heavy minerals

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Collected by Allmon, Knight

• Specimens are deposited in the collections of the South Carolina State Museum

Primary reference: W. D. Allmon and J. L. Knight. 1993. Paleoecological Significance of a Turritelline Gastropod-Dominated Assemblage in the Cretaceous of South Carolina. 67(3):355-360 [M. Uhen/J. David]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152080: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Jenna David on 06.11.2013, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphenodiscidae
Sphenodiscus lobatus
Sphenodiscus lobatus Tuomey 1856 ammonite
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
"Turritella bilira" = Haustator bilira
"Turritella bilira" = Haustator bilira Stephenson 1941 turret shell