Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.8° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 78.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Canepatch Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Unit 4; Canepatch Fm (Pleistocene age). Unknown stratigraphic possition (unit names in faunal table do not match up with those from lithologic column). Local section name: Nixonville. Basinal/regional section name: Intracoastal Waterway
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, sandy 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 60923: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Globigerina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Angulogerina occidentalis Cushman 1923 | |
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Bolivina sp. d'Orbigny 1839 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Globothalamea | |
Nonion sp. de Montfort 1808 | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Foraminifera | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Gastropoda | |
"Anachis avara" = Costoanachis avara, "Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata
"Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata Say 1826 snail | |
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
"Seila adamsi" = Seila adamsii
"Seila adamsi" = Seila adamsii Lea 1845 snail | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Chlamys sp. Röding 1798 scallop | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Ervilia concentrica Holmes 1858 clam | |
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis Say 1822 clam | |
Mysella velaini clam | |
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima, Mulinia lateralis
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
Gemma magna, "Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam
"Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam | |
Demospongiae | |
Cliona sp. demosponge |