Givhans Ferry (Loc. 23) - Lower Goose Creek Lmst: Early/Lower Pliocene, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Eucrassatella speciosa
Adams 1854
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Turritella perexilis
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| external mold and latex cast | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Fusinus equalis
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Terebraspira sparrowi
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| internal and external mold | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Melongenidae
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Busycon maximum
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Xenophoridae
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Xenophora conchyliophora
(Born 1780)
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Solenida
- Pharidae
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Ensis directus
(Conrad 1844)
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| internal mold, latex cast | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Pitar sayana
(Conrad 1833)
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| synonym of Pitar morrhuanus | ||||||||||
| internal mold | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Tellinidae
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Macoma virginiana
Conrad 1866
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| recombined as Macoma (Macoma) virginiana | ||||||||||
| internal mold | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Parvilucina multilineata
(Conrad 1841)
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| recombined as Parvilucina multistriata | ||||||||||
| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Ctena speciosa
(Rogers and Rogers 1837)
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| recombined as Ctena (Ctena) speciosa | ||||||||||
| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Radiolucina tuomeyi
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| external mold, latex cast | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Eucrassatella virginica
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Pectinidae
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Carolinapecten eboreus
(Conrad 1833)
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| Subspecies: C. eboreus eboreus; calcitic shell | ||||||||||
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Pecten hemicyclicus
Ravenel 1834
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| calcitic shell | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea compressirostrea
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| calcitic shell | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Arcidae
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Anadara improcera
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| latex cast | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Colleton |
| Coordinates: | 33.0° North, 80.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 79.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Zanclean | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 5.33300 - 3.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Goose Creek | Member: | Lower | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Local section name: Givhans Ferry. Basinal/regional section name: Edisto River.
The Goose Creek Limestone is divisible into lower and upper biostratigraphic units, coincident with lith division, seperated by an unconformity. The Raysor Marl unconformably overlies the lower Goose Creek Limestone. The lower Goose Creek Limestone is of late middle Pliocene (~3.8-3.9 Ma). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | medium,coarse,gray,white lithified calcareous sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: At its type section, the Goose Limestone is a medium-coarse grained quartzose and phosphatic, sparsely shelly, pale buff gray to chalk white calcarenite. | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: No environmental data reported. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | cast,mold/impression,midden |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collection method comments: Maide (1959) collection. Material reposited in Converse College, Charleston Museum, USNM and UCSC. C.W. Cooke locality 170. | |
| Taxonomic list comments:Exhaustive for Mollusca. Nomenclature is authoritative and modern. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 60939 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | GCP,marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-05-28 02:08:22 | Last modified: | 2018-09-07 16:55:25 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-05-28 02:08:22 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 17558. | M.R. Campbell and L.D. Campbell. 1995. Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:53-100 [A. Miller/A. Hendy] |