Runnymeade Plantation (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Charleston County, South Carolina (32.9° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 32.9° N, 80.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wando Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79923: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 26.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923 gomphothere
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus pristinus Leidy 1854 bear
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Leopardus amnicola" = Leopardus wiedii
"Leopardus amnicola" = Leopardus wiedii Schinz 1821 margay
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervalces scotti Lydekker 1898 stag moose
 Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus pinckneyi, "Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi
Neochoerus pinckneyi Hay 1926 caviomorph
"Hydrochoerus holmesi" = Neochoerus aesopi Leidy 1853 caviomorph