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 3; 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 60929: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Cliona sp. demosponge | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Mellita quinquesperforata sand dollar
Encope emarginata Leske 1779 sand dollar | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana, Olivella mutica
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
"Retusa canaliculata" = Acteocina canaliculata
"Retusa canaliculata" = Acteocina canaliculata Say 1826 barrel-bubble | |
"Odostomia seminuda" = Boonea seminuda, Turbonilla interrupta
"Odostomia seminuda" = Boonea seminuda Adams 1839 snail
Turbonilla interrupta Totten 1835 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata, "Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata
"Cardita tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata, "Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam | |
Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin 1791 quahog
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis Say 1822 clam | |
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus
"Tellina texana" = Angulus texanus Dall 1900 tellin clam | |
Ervilia concentrica Holmes 1858 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark | |
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Foraminifera | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Angulogerina occidentalis Cushman 1923
Bulimina sp. d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Pyrgo sp. Defrance 1824 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides sp. Monfort 1808 |