Where: Colleton County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Goose Creek Formation), Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Local section name: Givhans Ferry. Basinal/regional section name: Edisto River.

•The Goose Creek Limestone is divisible into lower and upper biostratigraphic units, coincident with lith division, seperated by an unconformity. The Raysor Marl unconformably overlies the lower Goose Creek Limestone. The lower Goose Creek Limestone is of late middle Pliocene (~3.8-3.9 Ma).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, gray, white, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, midden

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Maide (1959) collection. Material reposited in Converse College, Charleston Museum, USNM and UCSC. C.W. Cooke locality 170.

Primary reference: M.R. Campbell and L.D. Campbell. 1995. Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:53-100 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60939: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006

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