Loc. 308 - Fairfield, Santee River [Pamlico Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 79.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 79.2° 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: Possibly corresponds to stiff blue clay that is penetrated in the wells at Charleston.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: "Tenacious and compact clay". LITHIFICATION: Poorly lithified, on the basis facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite

Collected by Tuomey

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• 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 92405: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication and with antiquated nomenclature but with species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated with subsequent publications.
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
"Pinna seminuda" = Atrina seminuda
"Pinna seminuda" = Atrina seminuda Lamarck 1819 oyster
 Cardiida - Mactridae
"Mactra lateralis" = Mulinia lateralis
"Mactra lateralis" = Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam