Lake Waccamaw (Pliocene of the United States)

Also known as Station 13379

Where: COlumbia County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Waccamaw Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1942. Cenozoic irregular echinoids of the Eastern United States. Journal of Paleontology 16:1-62 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204632: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.09.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Clypeasteroida - Mellitidae
Encope emarginata Leske 1779 sand dollar