Clapp Creek, Kingstree [Williamsburg Fm.] (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Williamsburg County, South Carolina (33.7° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.8° N, 62.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group), Late/Upper Paleocene (58.7 - 55.8 Ma)

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, fine-grained, black lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace, coprolite

Collected by B. R. Erickson in 1984

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: G. T. Sawyer. 1998. Coprolites of the Black Mingo Group (Paleocene) of the South Carolina. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 88(4):221-228 [M. Uhen/T. Fabian]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150578: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Tyler Fabian on 10.09.2013, edited by Mark Uhen and Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

 Vertebrata -
Vertebrata indet. vertebrate
coprolite
Reptilia
 Testudines - Macrobaenidae
"Macrobaenidae" indet. Sukhanov 1964 turtle
formerly Osteopygis emarginatus