PBDB Collection

Stokes Quarry [reworked] (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as site 1

Where: Darlington County, South Carolina (34.2° N, 79.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 51.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holkopollenites forix pollen zone, Coachman Formation, Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "middle Campanian"; age determined from pollen from an auger sample

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; black, silty claystone and fine, quartzose, gray, green sandstone

• "At the quarry site, the Coachman Formation was entirely subsurface, but core samples taken at the quarry floor show mixed detrital sediments, predominately dark claystone beds interbedded with well-sorted, glauconitic, fine quartz sandstone in flaser beds ranging from a few millimeters to 2.0 cm in thickness"

•"Stiff, black...silty clay matrix with common to abundant dark greenish grey (5GY 4/1) well sorted, very fine to fine quartz sand in flaser beds a few mm to 2 cm thick."

•Fossils are concentrated in the overlying Pliocene beds as a transgressive lag.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by F. Morning, R. Ogilvie, M. Bruggerman, J. Knight, E. Ogilvie, B. Palmer

Collection methods: core, surface (float),

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 180790: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 02.08.2016, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
Testudines -	Testudines indet. Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle ChM PV8995 (bitten bone)
Testudines - Bothremydidae	Bothremydinae indet., Bothremys sp. Bothremydinae indet. Gaffney 1975 sideneck turtle "Bothremys or Chedighaii"; ChM PV8693-4, PV8902, PV8905, PV8909, PV8913, PV8916, PV8924, PV8926-9, PV8931-2; SMM P2006.1.8, P2006.1.9 Bothremys sp. Leidy 1865 sideneck turtle ChM PV8702, R mandible
Testudines - Adocidae	"Adocus cf. punctatus" = Adocus beatus "Adocus cf. punctatus" = Adocus beatus Leidy 1865 turtle ChM PV8903, PV8925, PV8930, PV9129, PV9135, PV9144; SMM P2006.1.1
Testudines - Pancheloniidae	Euclastes wielandi Euclastes wielandi Hay 1908 turtle ChM PV9001-3, PV8703, PV8908, PV8919-21
Testudines - Dermochelyoidae	Corsochelys bentleyi Corsochelys bentleyi Schwimmer et al. 2015 sea turtle ChM PV7314, PV8907, PV8910-11, PV8915, PV8922, PV8934, PV9132, PV9147
Testudines -	Toxochelys sp. Toxochelys sp. Cope 1873 turtle ChM PV8918, neural 2 or 4
Testudines - Pantrionychidae	"Trionyx" halophilus, "Trionyx" priscus "Trionyx" halophilus Cope 1869 turtle ChM PV8935-6, PV8938, PV8941-3, PV8946-7, PV8949-55, PV9128; SMM P2006.1.2 "Trionyx" priscus Cope 1869 turtle ChM P5881, PV8899, PV8900, PV8937, PV8939-40, PV8944-45, PV8948, PV8957, PV9145; SMM P2006.1.2
Testudines - Macrobaenidae	Osteopygis emarginatus Osteopygis emarginatus Cope 1868 turtle ChM PV8912, 10th L peripheral
Squamata - Mosasauridae	Mosasauridae indet., Tylosaurus sp. Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur ChM PV7313, PV8310, PV8964-5, PV7332, PV7338-40, PV8592, PV9118 Tylosaurus sp. Marsh 1872 mosasaur ChM PV8964, tooth
Squamata - Teiidae	Teiidae indet. Teiidae indet. Gray 1827 squamates ChM PV8980, vertebra
Dinosauria -	? Dinosauria indet. ? Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur ChM PV9143, PV8956
Theropoda -	Theropoda indet., Ornithomimosauria indet., Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881 theropod ChM PV8689, PV9111, PV7366, PV8833, PV9149-50, PV7366 Ornithomimosauria indet. ornithomimosaur ChM PV7558, PV8823-5, PV9098-9 Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis Carr et al. 2005 coelurosaur ChM PV7326, PV8826, PV9117, PV7370
Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae	Saurornitholestes langstoni Saurornitholestes langstoni Sues 1978 maniraptoran ChM PV8674-5, PV8679; SCSM 2005.11.1
Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae	Hadrosauridae indet. Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid ChM PV8827-8
Loricata -	Eusuchia indet. Eusuchia indet. crocodilian ChM PV7365, PV7561, PV8312, PV8593; PV8676, PV8830, PV8836-7, PV8839-41, PV8854, PV8858, PV8863-6, PV8872, PV8878, PV8882-4, PV8894-5, PV8897, PV9097, PV9138, PV9151; SMM P84.12.26; SCSM 2005.11.2
Crocodylia -	Crocodylia indet. Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian ChM PV8697-99, PV9127 (coprolites); ChM PV8856-8 (bitten bones)
Crocodylia - Alligatoridae	Bottosaurus sp. Bottosaurus sp. Agassiz 1849 crocodilian ChM PV7379, PV8896, PV9152, teeth
Crocodylia -	Deinosuchus rugosus, Gavialoidea indet. Deinosuchus rugosus Emmons 1858 crocodilian ChM PV8962, tooth Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian ChM PV8706, PV8832, PV8842, PV8859-60, PV8868-9, PV8873-6, PV8879, PV8887, PV8892, PV9139; SMM P2004.9.11
Loricata -	Borealosuchus sp. Borealosuchus sp. Brochu 1997 crocodilian SMM P2004.9.7, humerus
Plesiosauria -	Plesiosauria indet. Plesiosauria indet. de Blainville 1835 plesiosaur ChM PV8966-67
Chondrichthyes
Lamniformes - Anacoracidae	Squalicorax kaupi, Squalicorax pristodontus Squalicorax kaupi Agassiz 1843 crow shark Squalicorax pristodontus Agassiz 1835 crow shark
Selachii -	Selachii indet. Selachii indet. shark ChM PV9000, PV9154, PV8998 (coprolites)
Holkopollenites
-	Holkopollenites forix Holkopollenites forix Christopher and Prowell 2010