Also known as Cross Quarry, Martin Marietta Aggregates Quarry
Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 62.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: NP9 nannofossil zone, Chicora Member (Williamsburg Formation), Thanetian (59.2 - 56.0 Ma)
• dated from calcareous nannofossil smear slide from bulk matrix
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: D. J. Cicimurri, J. L. Knight, J. M. Self-Trail and S. M. Ebersole. 2016. Late Paleocene glyptosaur (Reptilia: Anguidae) osteoderms from South Carolina, USA. Journal of Paleontology 90(1):147-153 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 186974: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Coccolithophyceae | |
Reptilia | |
Glyptosaurinae indet. Marsh 1872 squamates | |
Chondrichthyes | |
"Rhinobatos bruxelliensis" = Rhinobatus bruxelliensis
"Rhinobatos bruxelliensis" = Rhinobatus bruxelliensis Jaekel 1894 guitarfish | |
"Jacquhermania duponti" = Dasyatis duponti
"Jacquhermania duponti" = Dasyatis duponti Winkler 1874 whiptail stingray | |
Coupatezia woutersi Cappetta 1982 stingray
Heterotorpedo fowleri Ward 1983 stingray |