Myrtle Beach: Late/Upper Maastrichtian, South Carolina
collected by E. A. Affinito 1984
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Mosasauridae
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? Prognathodon sp.
Dollo 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
SCSM 84.176.1, tooth | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Horry |
Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 78.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.2° North, 56.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Maastrichtian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Peedee | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: stratigraphic assignment uncertain |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | E. A. Affinito | Collection dates: | 1984 |
Metadata
Also known as: | site 13 | ||
Database number: | 201617 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2019-05-15 14:02:52 | Last modified: | 2021-02-19 06:21:11 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-05-15 14:02:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
68976. | D. R. Schwimmer, A. E. Sanders, B. R. Erickson and R. E. Weems. 2015. A Late Cretaceous dinosaur and reptile assemblage from South Carolina, USA. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 105(2):1-157 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |