Also known as Giant Portland Cement Quarry, Pleistocene

Where: Dorchester County, South Carolina (33.2° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.2° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• said to be Wisconsinan by Sanders, but "late Irvingtonian (ca. 400 ka)" by Kohn et al.

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gravel

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by M. J. Kohn, V. McCollum

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. J. Kohn, M. P. McKay, and J. L. Knight. 2005. Dining in the Pleistocene -- who's on the menu?. Geology 33(8):649-652 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79919: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.03.2008, edited by John Alroy, Jacqueline Benefield and Erin Velasquez

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