Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 80.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ladson Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 79767: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 23.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Ostrea virginiana" = Crassostrea virginica
"Ostrea virginiana" = Crassostrea virginica Gmelin 1791 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Crypta fornicata" = Crepidula fornicata
"Crypta fornicata" = Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Mammalia | |
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth originally entered as "Megalonyx jeffersoni"
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