Locality WA 17 - Unit 3 (Waccamaw Fm) (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• No environmental information reported.
• Sand, quartz, fine to medium, subangular to subrounded, slightly frosted, very pale orange, macrofossils abundant, especially large mollusks, echinoids common.

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

• Exhaustive for mollusca, but containing common forms, with excellent nomenclature.
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus
"Chlamys eboreus" = Carolinapecten eboreus Conrad 1833 scallop