Lafarge Cement Quarry: Priabonian, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Rhinopristiformes - Pristidae
Pristis lathami Galeotti 1837
Cicimurri 2007 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cetacea - Basilosauridae
Basilosauridae indet. Cope 1867
1 specimen
ChM PV6761
Mammalia - Sirenia - Dugongidae
Eotheroides sp. Palmer 1899
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]