Lafarge Cement Quarry: Priabonian, South Carolina
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Rhinopristiformes
- Pristidae
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Pristis lathami
Galeotti 1837
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Cicimurri 2007 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Basilosauridae
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Basilosauridae indet.
Cope 1867
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1 specimen | |||||||||
ChM PV6761 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Sirenia
- Dugongidae
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Eotheroides sp.
Palmer 1899
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Albright et al. 2019 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Carolina | County: | Dorchester |
Coordinates: | 33.2° North, 80.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.2° North, 72.5° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
Key time interval: | Priabonian | Nannofossil zone: | NP 18 |
Age range of interval: | 38.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Tupelo Bay | Member: | Pregnall |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | packstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: foraminiferal-peloid packstone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original phosphate |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Also known as: | Blue Circle Cement Quarry, Gifford-Hill Cement Quarry, Argos Cement | ||
Database number: | 72046 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2007-05-23 13:33:57 | Last modified: | 2019-12-09 14:03:28 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-05-23 13:33:57 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
14111. | J. H. Geisler, A. E. Sanders, and Z. Luo. 2005. A new protocetid whale (Cetacea: Archaeoceti) from the late middle Eocene of South Carolina. American Museum Novitates 3480:1-65 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
71195 | L. B. Albright, A. E. Sanders, R. E. Weems, D. J. Cicimurri, and J. L. Knight. 2019. Cenozoic vertebrate biostratigraphy of South Carolina, U.S.A. and additions to the fauna. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 57(2):77-236 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
24387 | D. J. Cicimurri. 2007. A partial rostrum of the sawfish Pristis lathami Galeotti, 1837, from the Eocene of South Carolina. Journal of Paleontology 81(3):597-601 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |