Also known as site 8

Where: Florence County, South Carolina (34.1° N, 79.5° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 51.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Donoho Creek Formation (Black Creek Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• within calcareous nannofossil zone CC 22c; bed shows a color change from top to bottom but is interpreted as a single lithological unit

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; fine-grained, micaceous, gray, red sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by D. Cicimurri, C. Bentley, M. Bruggeman, B. England, L. Hudson in 1978, 1998–1999, 2002, 2005

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: D. J. Cicimurri. 2007. A late Campanian (Cretaceous) selachian assemblage from a classic locality in Florence County, South Carolina. Southeastern Geology 45(2):59-72 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79363: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 04.03.2008

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