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