Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.9° N, 78.8° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 78.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• From unit 3, Pleistocene age Waccamaw Fm. Unit 3 is a 0.5 ft thick sandstone, the basal unit of the Waccamaw Fm, immediately overlying the uppermost unit (2) of the 10 ft thick Bear Bluff Fm, and is overlain by unit 4 of the 5 ft thick Waccamaw Fm. Basinal/regional section name: Waccamaw River
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, medium, shelly/skeletal, brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Unknown repository.
Primary reference: J. R. DuBar. 1971. Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas. Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 12th Annual Field Conference [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 60917: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop |