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 1; 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 60927: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
Vermicularia "spirata" Philippi 1836 turret shell | |
Crepidula plana Say 1822 slipper shell
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana, Olivella mutica
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
"Anachis avara" = Costoanachis avara
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"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata, Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata
"Glycymeris pectinata" = Tucetona pectinata Gmelin 1791 clam | |
Noetia sp. Gray 1857 clam | |
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis, "Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis, "Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Mulinia lateralis, "Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam | |
Gouldia metastriata, Mercenaria campechiensis, "Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, "Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria, Chione cancellata
Gouldia metastriata venus clam
Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin 1791 quahog
"Chione latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam
"Chione (Chione) cribraria" = Chione cribraria Conrad 1843 venus clam
Chione cancellata Linnaeus 1767 venus clam | |
Chama gardnerae jewel box | |
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
Abra aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Cardita arata" = Carditamera arata, "Cardita perplana" = Pteromeris perplana, "Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata
"Cardita arata" = Carditamera arata Conrad 1832 clam
"Cardita perplana" = Pteromeris perplana Dall 1903 clam
"Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Encope emarginata Leske 1779 sand dollar | |
Anthozoa | |
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Demospongiae | |
Cliona sp. demosponge | |
Foraminifera | |
Bolivina pseudoplicata Heron-Allen and Earland 1930 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 | |
Foraminifera | |