Also known as Loc. 237
Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 79.5° W)
• 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 8 ft above low tide in the section.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, yellow marl
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by Cooke in 1922
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: C.W. Cooke, 1922. 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 92410: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Gastropoda | |
"Mitra aff. dalli" = Subcancilla dalli
"Mitra aff. dalli" = Subcancilla dalli Engerrand and Urbina 1910 mitre shell | |
Liotia aff. major snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa Lamarck 1801 scallop | |
Amusium mortoni Ravenel 1844 scallop
Pecten hemicyclicus Ravenel 1834 scallop | |
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata, Ostrea sp.
"Ostrea sculpturata" = Conradostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840 oyster
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Mytilus sp. Linnaeus 1758 mussel | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Echinoidea | |
Encope macrophora Ravenel 1842 sand dollar |