Where: Columbus County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.8° 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
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 59315: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 25.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
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"Liotia (Arene) pergemma" = Marevalvata tricarinata1
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Bivalvia | |
Laevicardium sublineatum cockle | |
"Tellina (Moerella) dupliniana" = Moerella dupliniana
"Tellina (Moerella) dupliniana" = Moerella dupliniana Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
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"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria, Gemma magna
"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam | |
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima2
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"Pandora (Kennerlia) naviculoides" = Pandora (Pandorella)
"Pandora (Kennerlia) naviculoides" = Pandora (Pandorella) clam | |
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides (Parvilucina) multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
"Astarte (Ashtarotha) concentrica" = Astarte concentrica
"Astarte (Ashtarotha) concentrica" = Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Glans (Pteromeris) perplana" = Pteromeris perplana
"Glans (Pteromeris) perplana" = Pteromeris perplana Dall 1903 clam | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa
"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa Say 1832 ark | |
"Ostrea waccamawensis" = Pododesmus waccamawensis
"Ostrea waccamawensis" = Pododesmus waccamawensis Gardner 1943 scallop |