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 Unpublished notes [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details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
Murexiella (Murexiella) petiti n. sp.3 Vokes 1968 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) shilohensis3 Heilprin 1887 murex snail
Murexiella (Murexiella) glypta3 Smith 1938 murex snail
"Murexiella (Murexiella) macgintyi" = Murexiella macgintyi3 Smith 1938 murex snail
Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus1 Dall 1889 murex snail
Chicoreus (Chicoreus) floridanus2 Vokes 1965 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Arcidae
Anadara (Caloosarca) rustica4 Tuomey and Holmes 1857 ark