Trolley Road, Pleistocene (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Ten Mile Hill Formation, Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. E. Sanders. 2002. Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. American Philosophical Society 1-152 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79750: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 22.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neofiber alleni True 1884 round-tailed muskrat
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Carnivora - Odobenidae
Odobenus sp. Brisson 1762 walrus
 Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina septentrionalis Leidy 1889 edentate
 Megatherioidea - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate