Also known as site 6
Where: Florence County, South Carolina (34.1° N, 79.8° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 37.5° N, 45.8° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• the "detrital upper portion" of the formation
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by D. Hudson, F. Morning, R. Ogilvie in 1989
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• Most material in private collections
Primary reference: D. R. Schwimmer, A. E. Sanders, B. R. Erickson and R. E. Weems. 2015. A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 105(2):1-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 201611: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Osteichthyes indet. Huxley 1880 bony fish | |
Reptilia | |
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
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Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Osteichthyes | |
Chondrichthyes indet. bony fish |