PRI Loc. 1609 (sample 1, replicate B) - Waccamaw Fm: Early/Lower Pleistocene, North Carolina
collected by Smith 1925

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca
Cirripedia indet. Rafinesque 1816
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Chama striata Smith 1817
4 specimens
synonym of Nanogyra (Palaeogyra) virgula
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Conradostrea sp. Ward and Blackwelder 1987
9 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula marginata Say 1824
13 specimens
synonym of Plicatula gibbosa
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Aequipecten eboerus
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Glycymerididae
Tucetona sp. Iredale 1939
1 specimen
Glycymeris americana (Defrance 1826)
29 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Lunarca ovalis (Bruguiere 1789)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Arcida - Noetiidae
Arcopsis adamsi (Dall 1886)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Carditida - Carditidae
Carditidae indet. Fleming 1820
1 specimen
Pleuromeris tridentata (Say 1826)
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte concentrica Conrad 1834
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Carditida - Crassatellidae
? Eucrassatella sp. Iredale 1924
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Solenida - Pharidae
Ensis directus (Conrad 1844)
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Laevicardium laevigatum (Linnaeus 1758)
11 specimens
replaced by Laevicardium serratum
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Semelidae
Semele (Semele) ? bellastriata (Conrad 1837)
3 specimens
recombined as Semele bellastriata
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Mactridae
Mactridae indet. Lamarck 1809
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Chione cribraria (Conrad 1843)
5 specimens
Lirophora latilirata (Conrad 1841)
1 specimen
recombined as Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata
Macrocallista reposta (Conrad 1834)
1 specimen
recombined as Macrocallista (Macrocallista) reposta
Gemma magna Dall 1903
6 specimens
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Ungulinidae
Diplodonta acclinis (Conrad 1832)
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
Caryocorbula contracta (Say 1822)
2 specimens
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Lucinidae indet. Fleming 1828
1 specimen
Cavilucina sp. Fischer 1887
3 specimens
Lucina pensylvanica (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crucibulum sp. Schumacher 1817
1 specimen
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
3 specimens
Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Marginellidae
Marginella sp. Lamarck 1799
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:North Carolina County:Columbus
Coordinates: 34.3° North, 78.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.4° North, 77.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waccamaw Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, but here assigned to the Early Pleistocene following DuBar (1971). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Unknown position within formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,shelly/skeletal unlithified silty sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Silty sandstone, shelly. LITHIFICATION: Unlithified, based on observation of specimens.
Environment:coastal indet.
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Shallow-marine, fine-grained siliciclastic environment.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original aragonite,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:4.000
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Museum repositories:PRI
Collectors:Smith Collection dates:1925
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: B. Smith, 1925. REPOSITORY: PRI.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropod and bivalvia. TAXONOMY: Identified by A. Hendy; nomenclature based on revision of Gardner (1943) [PBDB Ref# 16984].
Metadata
Database number:79340
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:L. Eccles Research group:GCP,marine invertebrate
Created:2008-03-02 20:51:03 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:authorizer only Released:2009-03-02 20:51:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19909. A. J. W. Hendy, D. P. Buick, K. V. Bulinski, C. A. Ferguson, and A. I. Miller. 2008. Unpublished census data from Atlantic coastal plain and circum-Caribbean Neogene assemblages and taxonomic opinions. [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]