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 5; 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 60930: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Stenolaemata | |
Gastropoda | |
"Epitonium antillarum" = Epitonium candeanum, Epitonium angulatum
"Epitonium antillarum" = Epitonium candeanum d'Orbigny 1842 wentletrap
Epitonium angulatum Say 1831 wentletrap | |
Turritella subanulata turret shell | |
"Anachis avara" = Costoanachis avara, "Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata
"Mitrella lunata" = Astyris lunata Say 1826 snail | |
"Cantharus tinctus" = Gemophos tinctus
"Cantharus tinctus" = Gemophos tinctus Conrad 1846 true whelk | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana, Olivella mutica
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail
Olivella mutica Say 1822 olive snail | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799 margin shell | |
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus
"Crepidula aculeata" = Bostrycapulus aculeatus Gmelin 1791 slipper shell | |
Melanella conoidea Kurtz and Stimpson 1851 snail | |
Diodora sp. Gray 1821 snail | |
"Odostomia seminuda" = Boonea seminuda Adams 1839 snail
Turbonilla interrupta Totten 1835 snail
"Odostomia fusca" = Sayella fusca Adams 1839 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Crassostrea virginica, "Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) gibbus" = Argopecten gibbus Linnaeus 1758 calico scallop | |
"Noetia ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa
"Noetia ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa Say 1822 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa, "Arca umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark
"Arca umbonata" = Lamarcka imbricata Bruguière 1789 clam | |
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam | |
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam | |
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata
"Cardita granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam | |
Ensis directus Conrad 1844 clam | |
"Caryocorbula barrattiana" = Caryocorbula caribaea
"Caryocorbula barrattiana" = Caryocorbula caribaea d'Orbigny 1845 clam | |
Ervilia concentrica Holmes 1858 clam
Semele proficua Pulteney 1799 clam | |
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis Say 1822 clam | |
Corbicula densata clam | |
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima, Mulinia lateralis
"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima Dilwyn 1817 clam
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
Gemma magna, Mercenaria campechiensis, "Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa, "Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam
Mercenaria campechiensis Gmelin 1791 quahog
"Macrocallista nimbosa" = Macrocallista (Macrocallista) nimbosa Solander 1786 venus clam
"Transenella carolinensis" = Transennella venus clam | |
Anthozoa | |
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Demospongiae | |
Cliona sp. demosponge |