Beaufort, Goose Creek Formation (Pliocene of the United States)

Where: Beaufort County, South Carolina (32.4° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.5° N, 79.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goose Creek Formation, Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Based on collections of Pugh (1906), Richards (1936). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in various museums, possibly including the Academy of Natural Sciences, USNM, MCZ (Cambridge), and AMNH.

Primary reference: N. Kohno and C. E. Ray. 2008. Pliocene walruses from the Yorktown Formation of Virginia and North Carolina, and a systematic revision of the North Atlantic Pliocene walruses. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication 14:39-80 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 77595: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 15.01.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for gastropoda and bivalvia. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoratative publication, and somewhat antiquated. However, all occurrences include species-resolution assignments and list synonymies.
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Ontocetus emmonsi Leidy 1859 walrus