Ashley River, Pleistocene: Pleistocene, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Ostreidae
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Ostrea virginiana
(Gmelin 1791)
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Holmes 1860 | ||||||
recombined as Crassostrea virginica | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Lucina kiawahensis n. sp.
Holmes 1860
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Holmes 1860 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Cuvieronius sp.
Osborn 1923
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Sanders 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
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Hoplocetus obesus n. sp.
Leidy 1868
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Leidy 1868 | 1 specimen | |||||
nomen dubium belonging to Hoplocetus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Physeteridae
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Physeter antiquus n. sp.
Leidy 1853
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Leidy 1853 | 1 specimen | |||||
synonym of Physeter vetus | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Miracinonyx inexpectatus
(Cope 1895)
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Sanders 2002 | 1 specimen | |||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Charleston |
Coordinates: | 32.8° North, 80.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.8° North, 79.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "Ashley Beds" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Manatus antiquus (=Metaxytherium floridanum) is reported from here but is probably either a mistake or reworked. |
Metadata
Database number: | 79950 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2008-03-28 08:22:18 | Last modified: | 2013-10-22 17:14:14 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-28 08:22:18 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
26878. | J. Leidy. 1860. Description of Vertebrate Fossils. Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South-Carolina 99-122 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/S. Bruning] |
Secondary references:
64712 | F. S. Holmes. 1860. Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina. 1-122 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
12637 | J. Leidy. 1853. [Observations on extinct Cetacea]. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences 6:377-378 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
11886 | J. Leidy. 1868. Notice of some extinct cetaceans. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1868:196-197 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
26822 | A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |