Where: Richland County, South Carolina (34.2° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 34.2° N, 80.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Local section name: Berkeley 45 drill hole. Basinal/regional section name: Summerville Barrier.

•From the lower member of the Waccamaw Formation. Stratigraphically the Waccamaw Fm lies between the Bear Bluff Fm (Pliocene) below and the Canepatch (Pleistocene) above, and is seperated from these formations by distinct unconformities. Various portions of the Waccamaw Fm have been included in the Wicomico, Peholoway, Chown, and Talbot Formations. Most erarly workers considered the Waccamaw Fm to be Pliocene in age (Clark et al 1912, Cole 1931, Cooke 1936, Cooke et al. 1943, Gardner 1915, 1943, 1948, Mansfield and MacNeil 1937, Olsson and Petit 1964, Richards 1943, 1950, 1969. DuBar (1958, 1971) and more recent workers suggest that the Waccamaw Fm might be Pleistocene in age. Waccamaw Fm has close similarity to the Caloosahatchee Fm.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, sandy marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: core,

• 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 60944: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006

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