Where: Columbus County, North Carolina (34.3° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 77.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waccamaw Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, but here assigned to the Early Pleistocene following DuBar (1971). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Smith in 1925; reposited in the PRI

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR: B. Smith, 1925. REPOSITORY: PRI.

Primary reference: A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79340: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.03.2008

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