Diamondhead Loop Road (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as site 7

Where: Florence County, South Carolina (34.1° N, 79.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.7° N, 57.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "detrital upper portion" of formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by F. Morning in 2000

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 201612: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 15.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Mosasauridae indet. Gervais 1852 mosasaur
ChM PV7312, tooth
 Crocodylia -
Crocodylia indet. Owen 1842 crocodilian
ChM PV8997, coprolite
 Loricata -
Borealosuchus sp. Brochu 1997 crocodilian
ChM PV8843, osteoderm