Locality WA 23 - Unit 2A (Canepatch Fm) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.8° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Canepatch Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Unit 2; Canepatch Fm (Pleistocene age); 2 ft thick sandstone; overlain by unit 2B (sandstone) and overlying the basal, unit 1 (sandstone) of the Waccamaw Fm. Basinal/regional section name: Intracoastal Waterway

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; unlithified, fine, shelly/skeletal, gray sandstone

• No environmental information reported.
• Sand, quartz, very fine to fine, subangular to subrounded, clear to slightly frosted, olive gray, biostrome of Crassostrea, well preserved.

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 60925: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Not exhaustive for mollusca, but containing common forms, with excellent nomenclature.
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Crassostrea virginica
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster