Black Rock Landing - Waccamaw Formation (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Bladen County, North Carolina (34.6° N, 78.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 78.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• No lithostratigraphic details or stratigraphic relationships provided in text. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, but here assigned to the Early Pleistocene following DuBar (1971).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, blue, silty sandstone

• No geologic or paleoenvironmental data reported in text.
• Fossiliferous sand with silt and clay, bluish-gray to tan, loosely consolidated

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

• Collections reposited in USNM and USGS collections.

Primary reference: J. A. Gardner. 1943. Mollusca from the Miocene and Lower Pliocene of Virginia and North Carolina. Part 1. Pelecypoda. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 199(A):1-178 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59314: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Exhaustive for Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda. Nomenclature is somewhat antiquated but provided to species resolution and authoritative.
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Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Gemma magna
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Amusium mortoni, "Chlamys (Aequipecten) eborea" = Carolinapecten eboreus
Amusium mortoni Ravenel 1844 scallop
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) eborea" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop