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, shelly/skeletal, sandy siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• COLLECTOR: H. and E. Vokes. REPOSITORY: FLMNH, Gainesville, Florida; USNM.
Primary reference: E. H. Vokes and H. E. Vokes. 2000. Catalogue of Tulane University fossil localities. Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 80035: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.04.2008, edited by Kate Bulinski
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima1
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"Chama striata" = Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula1
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"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa1
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Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta1, Gouldia sp.1, "Transenella sp." = Transennella1, Chione cancellata1, "Chione grus" = Timoclea grus1, Lirophora sp.1, Dosinia acetabulum1, Mercenaria sp.1
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"Phlyctiderma sp." = Diplodonta (Phlyctiderma)1
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Trachycardium (Trachycardium) isocardia1, Trachycardium (Trachycardium) muricatum1, Laevicardium sublineatum1
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"Pandora (Clidiophora) tuorneyi" = Clidiophora1
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"Marginella (Egouena) sp." = Prunum (Microspira)1
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