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

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