Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Waccamaw Fm. AGE: Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene, but here assigned to the Early Pleistocene following DuBar (1971). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 5 ft exposure in a ditch.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Lyell (1841) and Tuomey, 1922. REPOSITORIES: Unknown.

Primary reference: C. W. Cooke. 1936. Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 837 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92411: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.11.2009, edited by Mark Uhen

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