Also known as Price Creek

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 79.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pamlico Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From Pamlico Formation, for which regionally overlies the Penholoway and Wicowico Fms. AGE: Late Pleistocene. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Bed of about 6 ft thick, 5 ft above present day high-tide mark

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Tuomey

• COLLECTORS: Tuomey (c. 1800's). REPOSITORIES: Unknown.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 837 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92404: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009

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