Locality WA 19 - Unit 3 (Waccamaw Fm): Early/Lower Pleistocene, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Chlamys solarioides Heilprin 1887
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhizangiidae
Septastrea crassa (Holmes 1860)
Spelt: Septastraea
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea sculpturata Conrad 1840
recombined as Conradostrea sculpturata
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Horry
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 78.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 78.5° 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:2.58800 - 0.78100 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Waccamaw
Local section:Nixonville Local bed:4.7 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Unit 3 of the Waccamaw Fm; 0.3 ft thick; overlying the lowermost unit of the Waccamaw Fm (unit 2) and underlying the uppermost unit of the formation (unit 4), both sandstones. Basinal/regional section name: Intracoastal Waterway
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,medium,shelly/skeletal poorly lithified sandy "reef rocks"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Coral patch reef, branching colonies lying in horizontal plane, attached to Ostrea sculpturata and Chlamys solarioides. Open area filled with mixture of sediment.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
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:60921
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-27 20:12:08 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-27 20:12:08
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]