Sta. 7071 - Black River [Waccamaw Fm] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Loc. 235

Where: Georgetown County, South Carolina (33.4° N, 79.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.7° N, 78.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-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: From Bed 4 in the Evans Bluff, Black River section.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal, sandy marl

• ENVIRONMENT: Shallow marine, shelfal siliciclastic.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Coarse sandy shell marl. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, assumed on the basis of age and facies description.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by Cooke in 1917

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke, 1917. 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 92409: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Limited to characteristic bivalves and gastropods. NOMENCLATURE: Identified by W.C. Mansfield; not an authoritative publication and with antiquated nomenclature but with species-resolution identifications. Nomenclature updated with subsequent publications.
Show authors, comments, and common names
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pecten eboreus solarioides
 Carditida - Carditidae
Venericardia perplana abbreviata
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Leda acuta" = Nuculana acuta
"Leda acuta" = Nuculana acuta Conrad 1832 pointed nut clam
 Arcida - Glycymerididae
Glycymeris americana, "Glycymeris pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam
"Glycymeris pennacea" = Glycymeris decussata Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Arcida - Noetiidae
"Arca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi
"Arca adamsi" = Arcopsis adamsi Dall 1886 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
 Carditida - Carditidae
"Venericardia granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata, "Venericardia tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata
"Venericardia granulata" = Cyclocardia granulata Say 1824 clam
"Venericardia tridentata" = Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
Crassinella lunulata
Crassinella lunulata Conrad 1834 clam
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Corbula inaequalis
Corbula inaequalis Say 1824 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Mercenaria sp., Gouldia metastriata, Gemma magna
Mercenaria sp. Schumacher 1817 quahog
Gemma magna Dall 1903 venus clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis, "Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata
"Phacoides waccamawensis" = Bellucina waccamawensis Dall 1903 clam
"Phacoides multilineatus" = Parvilucina multistriata Conrad 1841 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp.
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell