Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Goose Creek Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Local section name: Cross. Basinal/regional section name: Berkeley.
•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). From Encope horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, phosphatic, gray, white, sandy, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, midden
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• New USCS collection. Material reposited in Converse College, Charleston Museum, USNM and USCS.
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60940: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa | |
Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral | |
Paracyathus vaughani Gane 1895 stony coral | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Mammalia | |
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
Echinoidea | |
Spatangus glenni Cooke 1959 heart urchin | |
Echinocardium orthonotum Conrad 1843 heart urchin | |
Mellita carolinana sand dollar
Encope macrophora Ravenel 1842 sand dollar | |
Psammechinus philanthropus Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Arbacia improcera Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cheilostomata indet. Busk 1859 | |
Ctenostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca lugubris Conrad 1834 | |
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Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Scaphopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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"Aurinia mutabilis" = Volutifusus mutabilis
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"Busycon pyrum" = Busycotypus spiratus Lamarck 1816 whelk Subspecies: B. pyrum excavatum; latex cast
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"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius, Conus marylandicus, "Conus presozoni" = Conus delessertii
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell internal and external molds
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"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii
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Bivalvia | |
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
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"Ctena speciosa" = Ctena (Ctena) speciosa, Divalinga quadrisulcata, Radiolucina tuomeyi, "Pseudomiltha anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta, "Lucinisca cribraria" = Lucinisca cribrarius, "Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica
"Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica Linnaeus 1758 clam internal mold [entered as Linga pennsylvanica]
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"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima, Mulinia congesta
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Macrocallista albaria, "Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Dosinia acetabulum, Chione erosa, Mercenaria corrugata
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam latex cast
Mercenaria corrugata quahog Includes subspecies: M. corrugata tridacnoides; internal and external molds
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Thracia magna, "Cyathodonta dalli" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
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"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa
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Glycymeris americana, "Glycymeris subovata" = Costaglycymeris subovata
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam Subspecies: G. americana americana and G. americana quinquerugata; internal and extenal molds
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"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
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Spondylus sp., Chesapecten madisonius, "Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius, Leptopecten leonensis, Argopecten comparilis, Nodipecten collierensis, Amusium mortoni, Chlamys decemnarius, Carolinapecten eboreus, Pecten sp., Pecten hemicyclicus
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
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Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |