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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Bivalvia | |
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"Ctena speciosa" = Ctena (Ctena) speciosa, Radiolucina tuomeyi, "Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica, "Lucinisca cribraria" = Lucinisca cribrarius, "Pseudomiltha anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta, Divalinga quadrisulcata
"Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica Linnaeus 1758 clam internal mold [entered as Linga pennsylvanica]
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Thracia magna, "Cyathodonta dalli" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
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Mulinia congesta, "Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima
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Dosinia acetabulum, Chione erosa, "Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Mercenaria corrugata, Macrocallista albaria
"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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"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa
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"Glycymeris subovata" = Costaglycymeris subovata, Glycymeris americana
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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Argopecten comparilis, Chlamys decemnarius, Pecten sp., Pecten hemicyclicus, Carolinapecten eboreus, Leptopecten leonensis, Nodipecten collierensis, Amusium mortoni, "Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius, Chesapecten madisonius, Spondylus sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
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Scaphopoda | |
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Gastropoda | |
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"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii
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"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius, "Conus presozoni" = Conus delessertii, Conus marylandicus
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell internal and external molds
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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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unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca lugubris Conrad 1834 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Ctenostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Cheilostomata indet. Busk 1859 | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Mammalia | |
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
Echinoidea | |
Psammechinus philanthropus Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Arbacia improcera Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Echinocardium orthonotum Conrad 1843 heart urchin | |
Spatangus glenni Cooke 1959 heart urchin | |
Encope macrophora Ravenel 1842 sand dollar
Mellita carolinana sand dollar | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral | |
Paracyathus vaughani Gane 1895 stony coral | |
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |