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
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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Murexiella (Murexiella) petiti n. sp.3, Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis3, Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta3, "Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi3, Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1, Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2
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Bivalvia | |
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