Turbeville (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as site 3, Tuberville

Where: Clarendon County, South Carolina (33.9° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 35.6° N, 57.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Sparganeaepollinites uniformis nannofossil zone, Steel Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Steel Creek Formation equivalent"

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta plain; poorly lithified, medium, quartzose, brown, gray sandstone

• "lightly cohesive brownish black (5YR 2/1) wet, moderately sorted, subangular to subrounded, very fine to medium quartz sand...loose, wet, brownish gray (5YR 4/1), poorly to moderately sorted, subrounded, very fine to medium quartz sand, with minor clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Collected by J. Byrd in 1965–1995

Collection methods: salvage,

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 201601: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 14.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Plesiosauria -
Plesiosauria indet. plesiosaur
ChM PV6827, vertebral centrum
 Theropoda -
Appalachiosaurus montgomeriensis Carr et al. 2005 coelurosaur
ChM PV6819, pedal phalanx
 Loricata -
Eusuchia indet. crocodilian
ChM PV6849-51, osteoderms
 Crocodylia -
Gavialoidea indet. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
ChM PV6776, PV6849-51
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
ChM PV6828, tooth