Where: Chatham County, Georgia (31.9° N, 81.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 81.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: oxygen isotope stage 5 zone, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• U-series date of "about 80 ka"
•local section is "3 to 4 m thick" but main shell bed is "more than a meter thick in places"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; shelly/skeletal sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve
Primary reference: R. C. Hulbert, Jr. and A. E. Pratt. 1998. Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(2):412-429 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20606: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•numerous additional molluscan and other invertebrate taxa are present but not listed
Bryozoa | |
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Anthozoa | |
Astrangia danae Agassiz 1850 stony coral | |
Echinoidea | |
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Mammalia | |
Rodentia indet. rodent | |
Reptilia | |
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Cirripedia | |
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Gastropoda | |
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana
"Oliva sayana" = Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Ravenel 1834 olive snail | |
Busycon carica Gmelin 1792 whelk | |
Eupleura caudata Say 1822 murex snail | |
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum
"Terebra dislocata" = Strioterebrum dislocatum Say 1822 auger snail | |
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus
"Polinices duplicatus" = Neverita duplicatus Say 1822 moon snail | |
Epitonium rupicola Kurtz 1860 wentletrap | |
Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus 1758 slipper shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Anomia simplex d'Orbigny 1845 jingle | |
"Noetia ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa
"Noetia ponderosa" = Eontia ponderosa Say 1822 clam | |
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa, "Anadara brasiliana" = Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana, "Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis
"Anadara transversa" = Anadara (Larkinia) transversa Say 1822 ark
"Anadara brasiliana" = Anadara (Cunearca) brasiliana Lamarck 1819 ark
"Anadara ovalis" = Lunarca ovalis Bruguiere 1789 ark | |
Pleuromeris tridentata Say 1826 clam | |
Mulinia lateralis Say 1822 clam | |
Mercenaria mercenaria Linnaeus 1758 quahog | |
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis
"Donax variabilis" = Serrula variabilis Say 1822 clam | |
Abra aequalis Say 1822 abra | |
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata
"Divaricella quadrisulcata" = Divalinga quadrisulcata d'Orbigny 1846 clam | |
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima Say 1820 Atlantic Nut Clam | |
Polychaeta | |
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