APAC Quarry (upper) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Ashland Paving and Construction, Lynchburg

Where: Lee County, South Carolina (34.1° N, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 57.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Peedee Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• above calcareous bed with ammonites and turritellids

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

• non-calcareous sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Hudson, F. Morning, R. Ogilvie in 1988

• Most material in private collections

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: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201609: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle
 Testudines - Pantrionychidae
"Trionyx" halophilus Cope 1869 turtle
ChM PV6800-13, PV6816