TU 558 - Crescent Beach [Waccamaw Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Horry County, South Carolina (33.8° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 78.3° 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

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy siltstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Vokes & Vokes; reposited in the FLMNH, USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• 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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92367: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropod and bivalvia. TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Gardner (1943) [PBDB Ref# 16984].
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta3 Smith 1938 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) petiti n. sp.3 Vokes 1968 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis3 Heilprin 1887 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi3 Smith 1938 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2 Vokes 1965 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Caloosarca) rustica4 Tuomey and Holmes 1857 ark