Giant Portland Cement Quarry, Parkers Ferry Fm. (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.2° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 72.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: NP 19/20 nannofossil zone, Parkers Ferry Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified, glauconitic, argillaceous limestone

• glauconitic, clayey, fine-grained limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206945: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Dermochelyidae indet. Lydekker 1889 leatherback
Mammalia
 Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867 whale
SC76.6, SC2016.31
aff. Basilosaurus sp. Harlan 1834 whale
ChM PV7636, ChM PV7637