Walrus Ditch, Pleistocene (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.0° N, 80.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Waccamaw Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 206955: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Allophaiomys pliocaenicus Kormos 1932 vole
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon ? bathygnathum Wilson 1935 North American porcupine
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938 canine
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
 Cingulata - Pachyarmatheriidae
Pachyarmatherium leiseyi Downing and White 1995 edentate
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina floridanus Robertson 1976 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893 edentate