Where: Berkeley County, South Carolina (33.3° N, 80.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 79.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Member (Goose Creek Formation), Zanclean (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Local section name: Cross. Basinal/regional section name: Berkeley.
•The Goose Creek Limestone is divisible into lower and upper biostratigraphic units, coincident with lith division, seperated by an unconformity. The Raysor Marl unconformably overlies the lower Goose Creek Limestone. The lower Goose Creek Limestone is of late middle Pliocene (~3.8-3.9 Ma). From Encope horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, medium-grained, coarse, phosphatic, gray, white, sandy, calcareous limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, midden
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: quarrying,
• New USCS collection. Material reposited in Converse College, Charleston Museum, USNM and USCS.
Primary reference: M.R. Campbell and L.D. Campbell. 1995. Preliminary biostratigraphy and molluscan fauna of the Goose Creek Limestone of eastern South Carolina. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 27:53-100 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 60940: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.05.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Balaenoptera sp. Lacépède 1804 rorqual | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Carcharodon sp. Smith 1838 white shark | |
Echinoidea | |
Arbacia improcera Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Psammechinus philanthropus Conrad 1843 sea urchin | |
Mellita carolinana sand dollar
Encope macrophora Ravenel 1842 sand dollar | |
Spatangus glenni Cooke 1959 heart urchin | |
Echinocardium orthonotum Conrad 1843 heart urchin | |
Bivalvia | |
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"Chesapecten septenarius" = Chesapecten jeffersonius septenarius, Chesapecten madisonius, Argopecten comparilis, Pecten sp., Pecten hemicyclicus, Carolinapecten eboreus, Chlamys decemnarius, Leptopecten leonensis, Nodipecten collierensis, Amusium mortoni, Spondylus sp.
Pecten sp. Müller 1776 scallop | |
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"Plicatula marginata" = Plicatula gibbosa
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"Anadara lienosa" = Anadara (Rasia) lienosa
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Glycymeris americana, "Glycymeris subovata" = Costaglycymeris subovata
Glycymeris americana Defrance 1826 clam Subspecies: G. americana americana and G. americana quinquerugata; internal and extenal molds
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"Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica, "Lucinisca cribraria" = Lucinisca cribrarius, "Pseudomiltha anodonta" = Stewartia anodonta, Divalinga quadrisulcata, "Ctena speciosa" = Ctena (Ctena) speciosa, Radiolucina tuomeyi
"Linga pensylvanica" = Lucina pensylvanica Linnaeus 1758 clam internal mold [entered as Linga pennsylvanica]
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Thracia magna, "Cyathodonta dalli" = Thracia (Cyathodonta)
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"Spisula solidissima" = Hemimactra solidissima, Mulinia congesta
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Macrocallista albaria, "Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata, Mercenaria corrugata, Chione erosa, Dosinia acetabulum
"Chione (Lirophora) latilirata" = Lirophora (Lirophora) latilirata Conrad 1841 venus clam latex cast
Mercenaria corrugata quahog Includes subspecies: M. corrugata tridacnoides; internal and external molds
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"Nucula proxima" = Nucula (Nucula) proxima
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Gastropoda | |
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"Sconsia hodgei" = Sconsia hodgii
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Conus marylandicus, "Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius, "Conus presozoni" = Conus delessertii
"Conus adversarius" = Conus (Contraconus) adversarius Conrad 1840 cone shell internal and external molds
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"Busycon pyrum" = Busycotypus spiratus Lamarck 1816 whelk Subspecies: B. pyrum excavatum; latex cast
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"Aurinia mutabilis" = Volutifusus mutabilis
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Scaphopoda | |
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unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Lingulata | |
Discinisca lugubris Conrad 1834 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Cheilostomata indet. Busk 1859 | |
Ctenostomata indet. Busk 1852 | |
Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Anthozoa | |
Septastrea marylandica Conrad 1841 stony coral | |
Paracyathus vaughani Gane 1895 stony coral | |
Ophiomorpha sp. Lundgren 1891 |