Goose Creek, Pleistocene: Middle Pleistocene, South Carolina

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx jeffersonii (Desmarest 1822)
originally entered as "Megalonyx jeffersoni"
Gastropoda - Neotaenioglossa - Calyptraeidae
Crypta fornicata (Linnaeus 1758)
Holmes 1860
recombined as Crepidula fornicata
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea virginiana (Gmelin 1791)
Holmes 1860
recombined as Crassostrea virginica
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Carolina County:Charleston
Coordinates: 33.0° North, 80.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.0° North, 80.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Chibanian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Middle Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.77400 - 0.12900 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ladson
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:79767
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-03-23 09:13:26 Last modified:2019-08-13 12:56:51
Access level:the public Released:2008-03-23 09:13:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
26822. 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]

Secondary references:

64712 F. S. Holmes. 1860. Post-Pleiocene Fossils of South Carolina. 1-122 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]