Locality WA 17 - Unit 3 (Waccamaw Fm): Early/Lower Pleistocene, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea sculpturata
Conrad 1840
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| recombined as Conradostrea sculpturata | |||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Chlamys eboreus
(Conrad 1833)
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| recombined as Carolinapecten eboreus | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Horry |
| Coordinates: | 33.9° North, 78.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 78.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.77400 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Waccamaw | ||||
| Local section: | Red Bluff Bridge | Local bed: | 10 ft | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: From unit 3, Pleistocene age Waccamaw Fm. Unit 3 is a 0.5 ft thick sandstone, the basal unit of the Waccamaw Fm, immediately overlying the uppermost unit (2) of the 10 ft thick Bear Bluff Fm, and is overlain by unit 4 of the 5 ft thick Waccamaw Fm. Basinal/regional section name: Waccamaw River | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,medium,shelly/skeletal,brown unlithified sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Sand, quartz, fine to medium, subangular to subrounded, slightly frosted, very pale orange, macrofossils abundant, especially large mollusks, echinoids common. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: No environmental information reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Collection method comments: Unknown repository. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for mollusca, but containing common forms, with excellent nomenclature. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60917 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | L. Eccles | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-27 19:50:18 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:37:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-27 19:50:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17556. | J. R. DuBar. 1971. Neogene Stratigraphy of the lower Coast Plain of the Carolinas. Atlantic Coastal Plain Geological Association 12th Annual Field Conference [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |